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2022 Mary Kay O’Connor Safety & Risk Conference

Health to Human is Safety to System: Making Safety Second Nature

In Association with IChemE and C-RISE

 October 5-7, 2022

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In Memoriam: Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center founder, T. Michael O’Connor, passes away

T. Michael O’Connor, founder of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center and respected chemical engineer, passed away on Monday, July 18, 2022.

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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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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...)
Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center director provides expertise in Peru Jul 18, 2022 - Faisal Khan, director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, and Jorge Seminario recently served on an environmental safety expert panel in Peru. Khan and Seminario, Texas A&M University chemical engineering professors, shared their expertise as part of the Expert Panel on Environmental Safety at the invitation of the… (read more...)
LNG plant explosion, fire brings attention to process safety importance Jul 14, 2022 - In June 2022, the LNG plant in Freeport, TX experienced an explosion and fire that shut down approximately one-fifth of the country’s liquified natural gas export capacity. Dr. Faisal Khan, director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, interviewed with Energy Wire to give insight into the complexity and… (read more...)

 

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2022 Mary Kay O’Connor Safety & Risk Conference
October 5-7, 2022
Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center, College Station, Texas

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Mary Kay O’Connor
Process Safety Center
Room 200, Jack E. Brown Building,
Texas A&M University, 3122 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3122

E-mail: mkopsc@tamu.edu

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