Course detail

Safety Engineering

FSI-XBIAcad. year: 2009/2010

Safety engineering is a quickly developing discipline connected with environment protection and total quality management. The basic tasks are hazard identification (risk sources identification) and risk assessment (frequency and consequences estimation). The main source of information are major accidents in process industry (Flixborough, Seveso, Bhopal, Mexico City, Pasadena). Other bodies are implementation of EU legislation, societal risk assessment, safety audit, inductive and deductive type of hazard identification, fault trees and event trees for risk assessment. Subject is based on an approach developed by CCPS AIChE and EU committee for the Prevention of Disasters.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

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

Ability apply mainly basic method of safety engineering, produce simple case studies, assess technical, process, chemical and environmetal aspets of the loss prevention studies.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge from the mathematical theory of probability, flow and outflow of gases a liquides from piping, physical and chemical properties of hazardous/dangerous substances, vapor-liquide phase equilibrium for pure substances.

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

Active presentation on seminars, case studies, the checking test.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The first and main goal - understaning of the prevention approach in loss prevention domain. 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

Consulting of the simple individual case study in safety engineering domain.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

CROWL, D. A., LOUVAR, J. Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications. Prentice Hall. Englewood Cliffs. 1989.
Mannan, Sam. Lees´ loss prevention in the process industries : hazard identification, assessment and control. 3rd ed. Elsevier, 2005. ISBN 0-7506-7555-1.

Recommended reading

Babinec, F.: Bezpečnostní inženýrství - e-učebnice, 2004.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme M5I-P Master's

    branch M-MŘJ-5 , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme M2A-P Master's

    branch M-MŘJ , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, 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 353/1999Sb.
Safety audit , MSDS -material safety datasheet, databanks HSDB,CHRIS,IRIS.
Societal risk assessment in industrial regions.
Review methods for hazard identification and risk assessment.
Major risk sources identification - Dow’s methods.
FMECA method for hazard identification.
Hazard and Operability Study HAZOP, systematic approach to hazard identification.
Risk assessment, risk acceptability criteria, individual and societal risk.
Risk assessment via Event Tree Analysis, basic event and event tree.
Fault tree analysis method, application possibility, top event, fault tree generation.

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Marek Tabas, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. MSDS - Material Safety Data Sheet,Databanks of hazardous substances HSDB,CHRIS,IRIS.
2. Basic statistics of accidents, statistical characteristics FAR, FAFR, FR.
3. Major Risk Sources, announcement on the basis SEVESO II Directive.
4. Application of the Fire and Explosion Index.
5. Economical assessment of the Fire and Explosion Index.
6. Chemical exposure Index - approach and results.
7. HAZOP-team work,systematic hazard identifcation, inductive and deductive reasoning.
8. FME(C)A - individual approch to hazard identification.
9. ETA - Event Tree Analysis, practical examples.
10.FTA - Fault Tree Generation. engineering approach.
11.Consultation of the individual project.