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Contents by Class Date Distributed
08/18/08
Course Syllabus (pdf, 125 k)
AIChE Code of Ethics (Web link)
Engineering Ethics: What Are the Right Choices?
Chemical Engineering Progress, April 1991, pp. 61-65. (720 k)
The Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (Fleddermann) (826 k)
"Damaged Engine Seal Could Delay Endeavour Launch" (link
to CNN.com)
"Endeavour Fuels Up, but Clouds Threaten Launch" (link
to CNN.com)
"DOJ to
prosecute file swappers", ZDNN News (pdf, 128k)
Video Assignment:
Ethics in Action: The
Tradition of the Engineering Profession 2 (WMV)
Ethics and Professionalism (pdf, 155k)
08/25/08
"Engineering Ethics: How ChEs Respond" (pdf,
1120k)
"Idaho employer gets largest-ever sentence for an environmental
crime" (link to CNN.com)
"NASA knew Mars Polar Lander Doomed" (pdf,
99k)
NASA Denial (link
to NASA.gov) (not distributed in class)
"Checking Out the Competition" (pdf,
71k)
"Their Cheating Hearts" by William Raspberry
(pdf, 172k)
"Personal Ethics, Professional Ethics"
(pdf, 84k)
"Whistleblowing" (pdf, 342k)
Toxicology (pdf,
240k)
09/01/08
Labor Day
09/08/08
Industrial
Hygiene (pdf,
160k) Explosions Video
Outline (pdf, 170k)
Video Assignment:
Introduction to Reactive and Explosive Materials (WMV)
09/15/08
Fires and Explosions
(pdf, 170k)
Process Area Safety Video Outlines
(pdf, 573 k)
Reshaping Process Safety Regulations
(pdf, 161k)
Video Assignments:
Process
Area Safety Features (WMV)
Process
Area Safety Procedures (WMV)
09/22/08
Hazards
Identification (pdf, 3.6 M)
09/29/08
Midterm Exam Study Guide
(pdf, 59k)
Risk Assessment
(link to ppt, 1.3M)
Gilbane Gold Study Guide
(pdf, 80k)
Video Assignment: Gilbane
Gold (WMV)
10/06/08
Midterm Exam
10/13/08
Enhanced
Discussion Slides (pdf, 90k)
Bhopal Study Guide (60k)
Bhopal Case Study (2.4M)
Oral Report Assignment
(pdf, 68k)
Video Assignment:
Unraveling Bhopal (WMV)
10/20/08
A more objective Bhopal document (pdf, 747k)
The Chemical Industry and
Toulouse: Lessons After Bhopal (link to PDF)
Bhopal
Victims Struggle to Survive (link)
A Chemical Engineer's Guide to Toxicology (pdf, 341k)
Personal Protective Equipment video outline (pdf, 128k)
Video Assignment:
Personal Protective Equipment (WMV)
Back to Top
10/27/08
Online Safety Library:
PPE (link)
PPE Training (coming soon)
Course (link)
OSHA PPE Handbook
(link to PDF)
Fashionable and Functional (PDF, 1.07M)
Video Outline:
Informal Safety Reviews (PDF, 212k) Video Assignment:
Informal Safety
Reviews (WMV)
11/03/08
Virtual
Reality Simulations for Laboratory and Plant Safety
11/10/08
Chemical Plant Safety-- Applying the
Tools of the Trade to a New Risk (link to PDF)
Guidance for protecting building environments from airborne chemical,
biological, or radiological attacks (PDF, 605k)
Are your plants and pipelines safe from cyber-attack?
(link to PDF)
EPA Security Proposal
(PDF, 416k)
Proposed Chemical Safety Laws
S.1602(107)
S.994(108)
Meet the Press transcript, July 18, 2004 (PDF, 276k)
Presidential Debate,
September 30, 2004 (link)
Kerry Claims Plants Not Protected (PDF, 138k)
GAO Preparedness Report
(link) Site Security Guidelines
(ACC/CII/SOCMA) (link) AIChE CCPS Security Vulnerability Analysis
(link)
American Chemistry Council on Security (link)
Terrorism at the Plant Level
(link) Chemical
Security Act Unlikely to Pass (link to PDF)
DHS Laws & Regulations on
Chemical Security (link)
Back to Top
11/17/08
AICHE Annual Meeting:
Project Worktime
Back to Top
11/24/08
Oral
Presentations
ACS Safety in Academic
Chemistry Laboratories (link)
Video Assignment:
Laboratory Safety and Inspections (WMV)
12/01/08
Safety Scavenger Hunt! (PDF,
48k)
Final
Exam Study Guide (PDF, 43k)
12/08/08
Final Exam
.pdf Adobe Acrobat File. Get the free reader
at the Adobe Website
.exe Windows executable program
.zip Windows archive file
.max Scansoft Paperport file. View with this program.
.doc Microsoft Word file
.xls Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
.wmv Windows Media Video
Copyrighted Material
(available in class library or in public domain)
Wentz, Charles A., Safety, Health, and Environmental
Protection, McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Fleddermann, Charles B., Engineering Ethics,
Prentice-Hall, 1999.
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