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Dennis C. Hendershot is a Senior Technical Fellow in the Process Hazard Assessment Department of the Rohm and Haas Company Engineering Division in Bristol, PA. He has been involved with the development and application of hazard analysis, risk management, and safety engineering tools, with particular emphasis in the areas of inherently safer design, process hazard analysis, and quantitative risk analysis. He received a BS in chemical engineering from Lehigh University and an MS in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Dennis is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and currently serves on the AIChE Board of Directors. He a past chair of the AIChE Safety and Health Division, and the AIChE Loss Prevention Programming Committee. He serves on the editorial review boards of Process Safety Progress, Chemical Engineering Progress, and the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. He has been active in the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), as a member and chair of the Risk Assessment Subcommittee, chair of the Hazard Evaluation Procedures Subcommittee, a member of the Inherently Safer Process Subcommittee, member and chair of the Undergraduate Education Subcommittee, and a member of the CCPS Managing Board. Dennis is a member of the Division of Chemical Health and Safety, and the Division of Environmental Chemistry, of the American Chemical Society. Dennis also received the Merit Award for contributions to chemical process safety from the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center in 2000, and the William H. Doyle Award for the best paper at the AIChE Loss Prevention Symposium in 1998 and 2002. He and his wife, Connie, were named "Parents of the Year" by the Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education in 1997. |
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