Australia's first Professional Process Safety Engineers named

Australia’s first Professional Process Safety Engineers have been announced at the Hazards Australasia conference in Perth.

The register was announced last year by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) to help improve safety across all engineering professions around the world. Since then, the Professional Process Safety Engineer registration has attracted interest from engineers and major organisations based in 38 different countries in all five continents.

Mahesh Murthy, a senior process engineer at ConocoPhillips, was named as one of the country’s first Professional Process Safety Engineers, and says he was honoured by the award.

“With recognition comes challenges and responsibilities and, as part of a small group of professionals, it makes me proud to be associated with people who have conceived the novel initiative of recognising and setting standards for a community that largely works behind the scenes to make world a safe place to live in,” Murthy said.

Others to receive the registration were Arup’s senior associate in fire risk and security, Nigel Cann, and GHD’s risk and safety manager, Simon Casey.

“We congratulate Mahesh and all of our newly registered Professional Process Safety Engineers, and also the team in Australia for helping to implement our new professional registration aimed at senior process safety practitioners,” said David Brown, chief executive of IChemE.