Course detail
Advanced Methods of Risk Management
FSI-XAM Acad. year: 2019/2020 Summer semester
The main kontent of the course is a review of the procedures and methods for hazard identification (sources of risk) and determination of the level of risk (estimation of the frequency of occurrence of an event). The course focuses at industrial safety (with regard to the relevant EU legislation), social risk of industrial activities, deductive and inductive methods of risk sources detection and risk estimation.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The course allows the students to také up on the knowledge from previous studies, to deepen it and to broaden it with the specified field. The students learn to use the basic methods and procedures of safety engineering, which require considering of a broad spektrum of technical, economic and ecological aspects.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of mathematics and physics in the extent of previous studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is expected.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through consultations.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Conditions of course-unit credit award: active participation in lectures and seminars, semestral work, written test, in justified cases the lecturer may set an alternative requirements.
Aims
The objective of the course is to introduce the students to the concept of risk analysis and to modern methods of risk analysis applied in technical practice. It is a multidisciplinary course, covering also the evaluation of human factor reliability.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance in lectures is recommended.
In justified cases alternative form of tuition, solution of individual semestral project.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme M2I-P: Mechanical Engineering, Master's
branch M-KSB: Quality, Reliability and Safety, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Introduction, koncept of safety management, basic terminology. Prevention of serious accidents.
2. Serious industrial accidents, couses and consequences.
3. Mathematical methods of risk estimation.
4. Sources of risk (mechanical, elektrical, chemical, biological).
5. FMEA and FMECA methods,application in risk analysis.
6. HAZOP method, detail analysis of sources of risk by HAZOP, prerequisites, possibilities of application.
7. ETA method, evaluation of initial events by ETA.
8. FTA method, evaluation of top event development by FTA.
9. Methods for analysis of reliability of human factor – analysis of tasks, HTA method.
10. Methods for analysis of reliability of human factor – evaluation of the influence of human factor on equipment.
11. Evaluation of risk analysis, metrics for estimation of risk acceptability.
12. Prevention of risks – elimination of sources, preventiv of occurrence, minimization of consequences. Approaches to risk prevention.
13. Presentation of semestral works.
Computer-assisted exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Statistical methods in risk analysis, semestral work assignment.
2. Serious industrial world and local accidents, evaluation with ESIA and INES approaches.
3. Mathematical methods of risk description.
4. Evaluation of risk sources seriousness, handling dangerous materials.
5. Practical application of FMEA and FMECA methods.
6. Practical application of HAZOP method.
7. Practical application of ETA method.
8. Practical application of FTA method.
9. Practical application of HTA method.
10. Practical application of Human HAZOP method.
11. Evaluation of risk analysis, use of metrics for estimation of risk acceptability.
12. Approaches to risk prevention.
13. Presentation of case studies. Test.