Course detail
Safety of Machines and Equipment - System Approach
FSI-9BSZ Acad. year: 2024/2025 Winter semester
The course Machine and Equipment Safety – System Approach is intended to acquaint students with a system approach to ensuring machine and machine safety. It focuses on potential hazard identification procedures, risk estimation, risk assessment and proposing preventive measures to reduce risks to an acceptable level. Attention is also paid to the necessary documentation of these procedures, which are necessary for placing the machine on the market or putting it into operation.
Language of instruction
Czech
Supervisor
Entry knowledge
Student should have basic knowledge of production machines design
and control and university mathematics and physics.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Written final thesis on the safety of selected machinery and its oral defense.
Lectures are optional. The student is obliged to consult continuously the procedure of writing the final thesis.
Aims
The aim is to acquaint students with modern trends in the field of ensuring the safety of machinery and machinery in the Czech Republic and the EU, including integrated safety, functional safety, electrical safety, electromagnetic compatibility, OSH, etc.
Students will learn a systematic and methodical approach to the solution
of machines and equipment system safety in the field of their design and
operation with using of laws, EU directives, methods, standards and
up-to date scientific-technical knowledge.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme D-KPI-P: Design and Process Engineering, Doctoral, recommended course
Programme D-KPI-K: Design and Process Engineering, Doctoral, recommended course
Type of course unit
Lecture
20 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Requirements of harmonized EU legislation.
2. The importance of harmonized standards for the safety of machinery.
3. System approach to hazard identification at machinery equipment.
4. Analysis, assessment and risk management at machinery equipment.
5. Functional safety of machines.
6. Electrical safety of machines.
7. Electromagnetic safety of machines.
8. Occupational safety and health.
9. Effect of operation and maintenance on the functionality and safety of machines and equipment.
10. Oral defense of a written final thesis.