Course detail

Safety Engineering

FSI-9BEIAcad. year: 2024/2025

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

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Luboš Kotek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Production Machines, Systems and Robotics (ÚVSSR)

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.

Study aids

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.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme D-KPI-P Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, recommended course
  • Programme D-KPI-K Doctoral 1 year of study, summer semester, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

20 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Luboš Kotek, Ph.D.

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.