ProgramCIP 15.0705

Process Safety Technology/Technician

A program that prepares individuals to apply basic engineering principles and technical skills in support of engineers engaged in developing methods to mitigate damage, reduce risks, and prevent accidents. Includes instruction in design for injury prevention, engineering for process safety, environmental psychology, function-based risk analysis, fundamentals of industrial engineering, operations research, probability and statistics, risk assessment and reduction, and safety engineering.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).