MSc(Eng)/Diploma Process Safety and Loss Prevention

About the course

This practical degree has been developed with the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Health and Safety Executive to equip you with skills and expertise in process safety, loss prevention and risk assessment. You'll be ready for a career in the oil and gas, chemical, nuclear and pharmaceutical industries, or with any of the consultancies that service them.

Course content

Diploma: one core module and five optional modules.

MSc(Eng): one core module, dissertation project, and five optional modules.

Core modules

• Elements of Risk and Major Hazards
• Dissertation Project

Optional modules

• Applied Hazard and Operability Studies
• Process Plant Reliability and Maintainability
• Hazards in Process Plant Design and Operation
• Human Behaviour and Human Error
• Process Safety Management and Loss Prevention
• Computer Control: Safe Practice
• Safety in Nuclear Operations

Teaching

• Lessons
• Discussions
• Real-life case studies
• Workshops
• Hands-on computer sessions

Assessment

• Assignments for each module
• Formal exams for core modules
• Dissertation

Full-time or part-time

This course is available full-time over a year, part-time over two or three years. Each module can be taken as a short course for people already working in industry.

Part-time students need to complete all modules within two years. You can take an extra third year to complete your dissertation if you need to – we won't charge fees for that year. You'll take one module per month from September to June. Each module is four days long. You must attend for 16 days each year, plus one day to sit the examination.

How you benefit from our expertise

Our teaching is grounded in our specialist research expertise. We have a reputation for innovation in research that secures funding from industry, the UK research councils, the government and the EU. Our industry partners small and large benefit from our groundbreaking work addressing global challenges.

You'll have access to top facilities, including modern social spaces, purpose-built labs, the Harpur Hill Research Station for large-scale work, extensive computing facilities and a modern applied science library.

There are also high-quality research facilities for you to use covering sustainable energy processes, safety and risk engineering, carbon capture and utilisation, and biological processes and biomanufacturing.

Apply now

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