Process Safety Certificate Program for Incumbent Plant Workers

We are excited to announce our partnership with The Texas Chemical Council (TCC) and San Jacinto College’s LyondellBasell Center for Petrochemical, Energy, and Technology (CPET) for the launching of a new Process Safety Certificate Program for Incumbent Plant Workers. This new certificate will promote the ownership of process stay at all levels of operations.

The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center and the LyondellBasell Center for Petrochemical, Energy, & Technology at San Jacinto College are taking initiatives to develop a process safety training program for workers in the chemical and energy industries based on the existing MKOPSC course content and materials. MKOPSC will train the trainer activities at the rollout of each new course and provide ongoing oversight of the program to ensure quality and consistency of the program.

The program will target operators, supervisors, and engineers with four courses designed to provide a thorough knowledge base that is balanced with hands-on, real world applications and practice. Upon completion of the four courses, a trainee will receive a Process Safety Continuing Education Certificate from San Jacinto College.

Content for the four courses is currently in development via a collaboration of MKOPSC, CPET, and subject matter experts participating through the TCC Safety Committee. Leadership and oversight is provided by the Steering Team composed of representatives from MKOPSC, CPET, and Texas Chemical Council.

Each of the four courses will provide 48 hours of instruction over three months delivered in a hybrid format consisting of:

• 24 hours of online content containing lecture and study materials prepared by the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center.
• 24 hours (one 8-hour day/month) completing hands-on, work-based learning in the CPET state-of-the-art facilities. (Pasadena, TX)

The first course, Intro to Process Safety, is a mandatory pre-requisite to the other courses; however, registrants can choose to take just the course or multiple courses as suits their needs, systems and also how integrate human factors into process safety.