Course detail

Safety Management

FSI-XMI Acad. year: 2022/2023 Summer semester

The main content of the course is a review of occupational health and safety, fire protection and information security and systems of safety management (occupational health and safety, prevention of serious accidents, information safety) and the procedures of auditing of these systems.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course allows the students to take upon the knowledge obtained in previous studies in the field of quality management and reliability and to broaden it with the given fields.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of mathematics and management of quality and reliability 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 lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. According to the possibility of teaching can be organized lectures for students by practitioners and excursions to companies focused on activities related to the course content.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for course-unit credit award: active participation in lectures and seminars, semestral work elaboration, test; in justified cases, the lecturer may set alternative requirements.

Aims

The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with occupational health and safety, fire protection and information security, legal and sub-statutory requirements in these areas, and approaches to implementation and management of safety systems (OSH, PMI, IS) and its integration with other management systems.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance in the course is compulsory. In justified cases alternative form of tuition, solution of the individual semestral project.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-KSB-P: Quality, Reliability and Safety, Master's, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Occupational health and safety – integration into the system of management.
2. Development of safety in the Czech Republic and in EU.
3. Occupational health and safety – legal requirements.
4. Ergonomics.
5. Systems of safety management. OHSAS 18001. Safe enterprise, BS 8800, ILO.
6. Safety training.
7. Systems of environmental management. ISO 14000.
8. Systems of control of serious accident prevention. Crisis management.
9. Safety audit – methods, practical aspects.
10. Investigation of accidents.
11. Fire prevention management.
12. Systems of management of information safety.
13. Improoving in safety management systems.