Two instructional training workshops hosted by the Nebraska MEP, “Process Control Essentials” and “The OSHA Regulatory Approach to Process Safety Management” were conducted this year with over 20 plant sites sending personnel for training. Both classes featured a host of authoritative industry sponsors and delivery providers, including the Nebraska Ethanol Board, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering, the Iowa State University Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS), and the Novozymes production facility in Blair, NE.
“The training offered by these workshops are the best in process plant operations in the country,” says Matthew Jorgensen, project specialist for the Nebraska MEP. “We have good working relationships with the program sponsors and delivery instructors and classes like these provide an important service to the ethanol industry. We’ve received a lot of interest and participation from multiple states across the country.”
Process Control Essentials was led by Dr. Hunter Flodman from the University of Nebraska College of Engineering and Scott Harmeier of ADM’s process optimization group. Process industry veterans Don Abramson and David Hill from AIChE’s Center for Chemical Process Safety led the OSHA Regulatory Approach to Process Safety Management.
Jorgensen added, “We are continuing to work at bringing more workshop based courses in the future for the chemical process industry in Nebraska and nationally. We have slated another controls course for next year and are in the process of selecting a process safety course that emphasizes individual PSM elements to be scheduled next year.”
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