这美国化学安全委员会（CSB）CSB 2010年获得了著名的欧洲流程安全中心（EPSC）奖Safety中心官员宣布，视频系列。该奖项是为了承认“向欧洲较少危害的欧洲进步”，并将“在过程安全的理论或实践中取得了相当大的推进”。
这是该中心第一次将该奖项授予美国实体，仅是第二次将其授予欧洲以外的组织或个人。
CSB董事长约翰·布雷斯兰（John Bresland）表示：“ CSB很高兴并很荣幸能够获得这一令人垂涎的奖项，以表彰我们的安全视频计划。我们为视频和它们用于促进世界各地的化学过程安全的事实感到自豪。我们很荣幸知道我们是美国第一个获得EPSC奖的组织。”
EPSC由欧洲化学工程联合会创立，其成员资格包括领先的化学公司，制造商，承包商，顾问和学术机构，代表了欧洲流程安全社区的很大一部分。正如其网站所指出的那样，该中心是一个由行业资助的网络，旨在为欧洲境内的过程安全提供独立论坛。
CSB Safety Videos are sophisticated, fast-moving and in-depth examinations of major chemical accidents investigated by the CSB. They feature computer animations that depict the chain of events leading to explosions, fires, leaks, tragic loss of life and serious injury. They typically include commentary by CSB investigators, board members, outside experts, accident victims and eyewitnesses, threaded into dramatic and compelling narratives.
CSB国会，公共和董事会总监Daniel Horowitz博士负责监督视频制作的人说：“ EPSC奖是自2005年首次努力以来我们制作17部安全视频的令人兴奋的认可。在世界范围内分发了超过100,000张DVD的视频，并在网上观看了数百万次。我们收到了数千条赞美视频的消息 - 劳工领袖，工人，安全trainingmanagers, company executives, trade associations, and other stakeholders across many industries. It is extremely rewarding to be cited by an organization representing all the major chemical process players in Europe, who state the videos are helping to advance the practice of process safety.”
霍洛维茨博士将在今年6月在比利时布鲁日的一次演讲中接受该奖项。
去年的冠军EPSC奖的弗朗西斯·Stoessel of the Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety and Security, for his work on the development of the criticality scale for chemical batch and semi-batch reactions. In 2008, the award was presented to Professor Andrew Hopkins of Australian National University for his writing on “learning from accidents” and particularly his published review of the BP Texas City Refinery accident of 2005, “Failure to Learn, the BP Texas City Refinery Disaster.” The CSB investigated that accident. Dr. Hopkins appeared in the CSB safety video, “Anatomy of a Disaster,” which detailed the causes of the tragedy.
CSB是一个独立的联邦机构，负责调查严重的化学事故。该机构的董事会成员由总统任命，并由参议院确认。CSB的调查研究了化学事故的各个方面，包括设备故障以及法规，行业标准和安全管理系统等物理原因。
