Overview

Process safety (in general) education is a vast interdisciplinary subject that requires integration of numerous concepts and adequate and balanced academic attention. Education at university level is crucial because it provides the core information required for process safety and those related workers especially engineers.

Besides process safety, safety and health of the workers in particular (OSH) as well as workplace design and operation to lessen, if not get rid of, the workplace hazards (industrial hygiene) are also important courses to be introduced to university students especially from the engineering background.

This program aims to share the approaches used for teaching Process Safety, OSH and Industrial Hygiene courses for chemical engineering students. Aside from that, background of the issues as well as data from the studies conducted in relation to this program topic will also be presented to the audiences.

Speaker

Ir Dr Mimi Hassim, Associate Professor, Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia

Mimi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She received her first degree in chemical engineering from UTM, Masters degree from Loughborough University, UK and doctoral degree from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland both in the area of inherent occupational health and industrial hygiene for chemical process industries.

Mimi is an active alumni of the Global Young Scientist Academy particularly in the Women in Science working group, was a secretary general of the Malaysian Young Scientist Network under the Akademi Sains Malaysia, selected to participate in the ASEAN Science Diplomats Assembly in 2017 and represent Malaysia in the ASEAN-FINLAND Research Meeting in Helsinki in 2018. She is also the recipient of the Islamic Development Bank scholarship, an editor for several journals including the Process Safety and Environmental Protection Journal and has published more than 90 journal and indexed papers besides actively publishing articles in international and local books, magazines and newsletters.

She was recently appointed to be part of committee that prepared the National OSH Master Plan 2021-2025 (OSHMP25) for Malaysia and also currently engaged to assist with the Strategy Education and Research for the OSHMP25.

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Education Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

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