Course: Safety and risk management

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Course title Safety and risk management
Course code NTI/MBR
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vališ David, prof. RNDr. Ing. Ph.D. et Ph.D., DSc.
Course content
Sylabus - Topics of lectures: 1. Genesis and state of the art in the area of safety assurance and risk assessment of logistics systems and processes. 2. Essential terminology in the area of risk management and relevant legislative documents in the area of risk control. 3. Risk and safety management - main aspects. 4. Risk management characteristics in various systems. 5. Risk types, qualitative and quantitative risk expression, risk numeric values, factors for risk assessment. 6. Risk assessment, risk acceptability, risk treatment. 7. Qualitative risk assessment techniques. 8. Semi- quantitative risk assessment techniques. 9. Event and failure - event effect onto device, logistics process and company - the failure cause assessment. 10. Principles of safety documents in logistics in conjunction to industrial risks assessment. Safety documents, safety programmes and guidelines, safety records, safety reports, disaster plans. 11. Forms and ways of failures descriptions, mechanisms, causes, consequences. 12. Modelling of dangerous substances release into the environment - during transport of dangerous substances. 13. Methods of risk assessment in dangerous substances transport. 14. Software support for risk assessment in logistics processes and informatics. Topics for exercises - will correspond to lectures: 1. Deterministic modelling of failures and undesired events of technical items and processes (in transport, power supply, logistics and informatics). 2. Stochastic modelling of failures and undesired events of technical items and processes (in transport, power supply, logistics and informatics). 3. Comparative modelling of failures and undesired events of technical items and processes (in transport, power supply, logistics and informatics). 4. Analytic methods for qualitative risk and safety assessment - choices and ways of application. 5. Analytic methods for semi-quantitative risk and safety assessment - choices and ways of application. 6. Analytic methods for quantitative risk and safety assessment - choices and ways of application. 7. Graphic methods for quantitative and qualitative risk and safety assessment - choices and ways of application. 8. Modelling of dangerous substances release into the environment 9. Modelling of consequences of the dangerous substances release and propagation into the environment. 10. Application of software support for risk and safety assessment - e.g. ITEM, IsoGraph, HIRAZOT, etc.>

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing)
  • Home preparation for classes - 24 hours per semester
  • Class attendance - 56 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 50 hours per semester
  • Preparation for credit - 20 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The main gol of the subject is to present to the students the area of risk and safety management. Student shall get knowledge in the areas of risk assessment and risk management.
Knowledge: - essential principles of risk management in the context of quality management, - fundamental principles of risk assessment and risk evaluation techniques. Skills: - decide about risk management implementation in technical practice, - determine need and utilise methods of risk assessment in practical situations, - utilise results of risk management in further processes on property and personel protection. General abilities: - describe all parts of risk management rstructure, - describe methods of risk identification, assessment and evaluation, - utilise valid terminology of risk management, - present and communicate about above skills clearly and als in the English langue.
Prerequisites
Essential knowledge from mathematics, systems construction, processes and management.

Assessment methods and criteria
Combined examination

Presence at the school - lectures and exercises. Completeion of semestral assignment and successful pass in the combined examination.
Recommended literature
  • D.A. Crowl, J.F. Louvar:. Chemical process safety: Fundamentals with applications.. Prentice Hall, Eaglewood Cliffs, N.J., 1990.
  • J. Bumba, L. Kelnar, V. Sluka.:. Postupy a metodiky analýz a hodnocení rizik pro účely zákona č. 353/1999 Sb., o prevenci závažných havárií.. VÚBP Praha, 2005.
  • M. Ferjenčík, J. Nejedlý:. Metodologie hodnocení míry rizika velkých havárií - kvantitativní analýza rizika chemických procesů.. CEMC Praha, 1992.


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