The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) is the world’s foremost university-based process safety centre. It serves industry, government, academia and the public and is an education and research resource to all stakeholders.

MKOPSC is guided by a steering committee of consortium member companies and a technical advisory committee of industry experts. Industry guidance ensures that Center's activities are relevant to the actual practice of process safety.

Over the past 20 years, the body of work created by the Center has led it to be recognised as an unbiased, science-based organisation focused on creating dialogue and consensus on difficult scientific topics, amongst all stakeholders.