Course: Safety Engineering

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Course title Safety Engineering
Course code UENM/C054A
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Ferjenčík Miloš, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
  • Janovský Břetislav, doc. Ing. Dr.
Course content
Empiric facts about hazards. Ideas for prevention and mitigation of hazards. Approach to incident investigation. Inherently safer technologies. Incident scenarios. Realizations of hazards. Human factor. Human error probabilities. Rapid ranking of hazards. Identification of hazards. HAZOP and FMEA techniques. System analysis. Fault Tree Analysis. Analysis of incident scenarios. Event Trees. Estimations of frequencies/probabilities of events and incident scenarios. Consequence analysis application. Description of the general terms. Construction of the general accident scenarios. Basic consequences' criteria. Types of results. Probit function and its use. Characteristic values. Source terme. Releases of liquids, gases and two phase systems. Evaporation. Burning. Fires. Fire terminology. Fire triangle. Types of fires: Jet fire. Pool fire. Dispersion. Division according to: type of release, duration of release, properties of released material. Plume. Puff. Jet. Explosions. Explosions of explosives. Gas explosions and methods of assessment. Dust explosions. Physical explosions. BLEVE Runaway. Classification of exothermic reactions. Prevention and mitigation of runaways. Basic theory of runaway. Care of safety. Evaluation of hazards. Functional safety: SIS and SIL: Suitability of safeguards. Introduction into risk analysis. Acceptability of risk. Risk assessment. Risk analysis procedures. Safety management. Legislation.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
Introduce basic terms, ideas and techniques for loss prevention in industry. Inform about risk analysis and estimations in industrial installations and about tools and techniques which are applied within risk analysis.
Graduate understands basics of risk analysis and knows principles, how they are applied in order to increase effectivity of industrial safety management systems. He/she is prepared to take part in risk analysis and in relevant improvement of safety management systems.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination

test in the first half of term, written project
Recommended literature
  • Crowl D.A, Louvar J.F. Chemical process safety: Fundamentals with applications, 1990 Prentice Hall, Eaglewood Cliffs, N.J..
  • Ferjenčík M. Safety Engineering. Soubor interaktivních cvičení dostupný v systému STAG.. 2017.
  • Kletz T.:. Learning from Accidents, 1993, Buterworth-Heinemann, Oxford.. Buterworth, 1993.
  • Lees F.P. Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, second edition 1996, Buterworth-Heinemann, Oxford.. Buterworth, 1980.
  • Marshall V. and Ruhemann S. Fundamentals of Process Safety.


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