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Module 19 · Professional Practice

Professional Practice

The path to PE licensure for chemical engineers, OSHA Process Safety Management and EPA Risk Management Program requirements, an engineer's role in process safety culture, and the professional ethics of never certifying a safety study that was not actually performed.

Licensure, regulation, and ethics are not add-ons to the technical modules elsewhere in this program — they define the professional standard a chemical engineer's real calculations are held to. This module covers the FE-to-PE path through NCEES for the Chemical discipline, the fourteen elements of OSHA's Process Safety Management standard (with Process Hazard Analysis and Management of Change tied directly back to Project 04's HAZOP study), and the EPA's Risk Management Program, which extends the same safety discipline beyond the plant fenceline to the surrounding community.

It closes with the single most concrete ethical principle in the profession: an engineer never signs, seals, or certifies a safety study, calculation, or inspection that was not actually performed to a professional standard — a principle this module ties directly to Project 04's HAZOP walkthrough and to the real consequences, including license revocation, of violating it.

Free related reading in this studio
→ Process Safety: HAZOP, PSM & Layers of Protection→ FE Chemical Exam Guide→ Chemical & Process Engineering System Architecture

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