Course detail
Safety Engineering
FSI-9BEI Acad. year: 2025/2026 Both semester
Safety engineering, connected with environment protection and quality management.
Major risk sources selection, rules for selection, types of effects (fire, explosion toxicity).
Detailed analyzing, systematical risk sources identification.
Consequences modeling, properties of tools used for modeling.
Scenarios of the major accident, identification, and accident sequence.
Estimation of the primary events frequencies.
Risk acceptability and assessment.
The subject is based on an approach developed by CCPS and AIChE.
Language of instruction
Czech
Supervisor
Entry knowledge
The prerequisite to study this subject is knowledge of the basic principles of mathematics, physics, and thermodynamics.
The course is intended for students who have completed basic security engineering courses during their studies.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Individual solution of case studies, oral exam.
The subject consists of consultations, the students’ attendance shall be checked.
Aims
Main goal – understanding of the loss prevention philosophy. Major industrial accidents in all world represent consequences of human errors on a different level of management.
This object/course uncovers a set of today's methods for hazard identification and risk assessment in the process and related industries.
Advanced knowledge about safety engineering and loss prevention domain, application of the fundamental methods and methods of safety engineering, environmental and economic aspects of safety engineering.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme D-KPI-P: Design and Process Engineering, Doctoral, recommended course
Type of course unit
Lecture
20 hours, optionally
Syllabus
Major industrial accidents and disasters, consequences, prevention as a basic approach.
Review of methods for hazard identification and risk assessment.
Major risk sources identification methods- systematical, index and rapid methods..
Hazard and Operability Study HAZOP, systematic approach to hazard identification.
Societal risk assessment of industrial processes.
Estimation of uncertainty of undesirable events, the uncertainty in the methods of risk analysis.
Risk assessment, risk acceptability criteria, individual and societal risk.