Course detail

Safety Engineering

FSI-9BEIAcad. year: 2012/2013

Safety engineering, connected with environment protection and total quality management.
Major risk sources selection, rules for selection, types of effects (fire, explosion toxicity).
Detailed analysing, systematical risk sources identification.
Consequences modelling, properties of tools using for modelling.
Scenarios of the major accident, identification and accident sequency.
Estimation of the primery events frequencies.
Risk acceptability and assessment.
Subject is based on an approach developed by CCPS and AIChE.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Luboš Kotek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Production Machines, Systems and Robotics (ÚVSSR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Basic knoledge about safety engineering and loss prevention domain, application of the fundamental methods and methodics of safety engineering, environmental and economical aspects of safety enginnering,

Prerequisites

The prerequisite to study this subject is knowledge of the basic principles of mathematics, physics and thermodynamics.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Individual solution of case studies, oral exam.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Main goal - understaning of the loss prevention philosophy. Major industrial accidents in the all world represent consequences of human errors on different level of management.
This object/course uncovers a set of todays methos for hazard identification and risk assessment in the process and related industries.

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

The subject consists of lectures and consultations, the students’ participation shall be checked.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

CROWL, D. A., LOUVAR, J. Chemical Process Safety. Prentice Hall. Englewood Cliffs.
Mannan, Sam, Lees’ Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 4th Edition. Texas, USA : Elsevier 2012. ISBN 978-0-12-397189-0
Manual for the classification and prioritization of risks due to major accidents in process and related industries. International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna 1996. 61 s. ISSN 1011-4289.
Smith, D., J. Reliability, Maintainability and Risk - Practical Methods for Engineers (7th Edition). 2005. Elsevier.

Recommended reading

Center for Chemical Process Safety (1993). Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems. Center for Chemical Process Safety/AIChE.
Center for Chemical Process Safety (2010). Guidelines for Process Safety Metrics. Center for Chemical Process Safety/AIChE.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

20 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Luboš Kotek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Major Industrial Disasters, consequences, prevention as a basic approach.
Seveso Directive EU, OSHA Directive, Czech harmonised law no. 59/2006 Sb.
Societal risk assessment in industrial regions.
Review methods for hazard identification and risk assessment.
Major risk sources identification methods.
FMEA method for hazard identification.
Hazard and Operability Study HAZOP, systematic approach to hazard identification.
Risk assessment, risk acceptability criteria, individual and societal risk.