Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center – Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

2024 Mary Kay O’Connor Safety & Risk Conference

Safe and Sustainable Energy Transition: Making Safety Second Nature

In Association with IChemE

October 22 – 24, 2024

Abstract Submission Portal Now Open

*Deadline Extended till April 15th!*

MANNAN/O’CONNOR MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES

The innaugal Mannan/O’Connor lecture series was started on January 2023. We have a series of distinguished speakers presenting on various aspects of Process Safety. The lectures will be held in JEB 256 from 3 to 4PM every Thursday.

Mannan/O'Connor Process Safety Lecture Series

IChemE’s Hazards 34 Process Safety Conference

November 5 – 7, 2024

Calling for Content Deadline: May 24, 2024

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Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC)

Our mission is to lead the integration of process safety – through education, research, and service – into learning and practice of all individuals and organizations.

Our programs and research activities enhance safety in the process industries. Our educational activities are aimed at making safety second nature to everyone in the industry. In addition, we develop safer processes, equipment, procedures and management strategies to minimize losses.

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Tenured Track Faculty Position Nov 30, 2022 - FACULTY JOB POSTING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING | TENURED/TENURE-TRACK: OPEN RANK 23_4326 CHEN MKO Faculty Job Ad Flyer The Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering at Texas A&M University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track (Assistant or Associate professor) position with a 9-month, academic appointment, and the possibility of… (read more...)

New groundbreaking guide from united steel workers Aug 24, 2022 - The United Steelworkers (USW) Health, Safety and Environment Department recently published a comprehensive guide designed to help workers develop programs that support safely stopping unsafe or unhealthy operations and processes. (read more...)

Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center founder, T. Michael O’Connor, passes away Jul 20, 2022 - Mike T. O’Connor, founder of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center and respected chemical engineer, passed away on Monday, July 18, 2022. O’Connor served as a board of director member of StarRotor Corporation, a startup company founded to commercialize revolutionary gerotor technology from Texas A&M University, for more than… (read more...)

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