Mary Kay o Connor Process Safety Center
College Station, Texas, USA

1994 wurde das Mary Kay o`Conner Process Safety Center gegründet. Im November 2014 unterzeichnen Dr. Sam Mannan – MKOPSC (links im Bild) und Prof. Jürgen Schmidt – CSE-Society (rechts im Bild) das Kooperationsabkommen für eine langfristige Zusammenarbeit.
Das CSE-Institut und und MKOPSC verbinden gemeinsame Ziele – Nachwuchsförderung und Forschung im Bereich Prozess- und Anlagensicherheit.
Zu den ersten Gratulanten gehört Prof. Dr. Hans Pasman, MKOPSC (rechts im Bild).
Kerninhalt Kooperationsabkommen
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Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, College Station, Texas (MKOPSC) and the CSE Center of Safety Excellence share the same objectives in the field of Process and Plant Safety:
- Develop safer processes, equipment, procedures and management strategies to balance industrial
- needs with environmental requirements and preserve worldwide resources
- Educate young professionals and safety engineers to make safety second nature
- Enhance safety in the process industries
- Develop worldwide accepted, equally high standards for process and plant safety
To reach these objectives, this LOI will solidify the relationship with regard to the following topics:
R&D
- MKOPSC and CSE will work together to develop proposals for international research projects and funding
- The parties inform each other about support activities on a regular basis
Education of young academics (high potential safety educated engineers)
- Reconciliation of curricula for Master students
- Student exchange program (Master thesis in foreign country)
Harmonization of Process Safety Methodologies
- Comparison and evaluation of Safety Methods in the US and Europe
- Support current state of knowledge for industrial application
- Support activities to harmonize standards
- Coordination of joint conferences and corporate sessions
Thought Leadership
- Regular knowledge exchange to identify future topics and optimization of potential in process and plant safety
- Publication of white papers
MKOPSC and CSE share web pages with current activities. Each party is responsible for the content of its institute at the pages of the cooperation partner.