Health, safety and loss control topics in the senior design courses

The undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum at most U.S. colleges and universities is already very tightly structured, largely to meet accreditation criteria while still providing broad-based education for the future. Health, safety and loss control issues were added to the program at the University of New Mexico through the use of weekly mini-lectures in the senior design courses. Mini-lectures, each ten to fifteen minutes, cover such topics as fires, explosions, the Bhopal incident, the Dow-Mond index, fault-tree analysis, HAZOP analysis, etc.