Course: Safety Engineering

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Course title Safety Engineering
Course code UENM/C964A
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Ferjenčík Miloš, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
  • Janovský Břetislav, doc. Ing. Dr.
Course content
1 Initial concepts. Types of hazards. Ethics. Safety culture. 2 The accidents at Seveso and Chernobyl. Approach to the accident investigation. Inherently safer technologies. 3 Hazards. Accident scenarios. Introduction to realization of hazard. The human factor, the frequency of human errors. Rapid evaluation of hazards. 4 Identification of hazards. HAZOP and FMEA techniques. System analysis. Fault Tree Analysis. 5 Analysis of accident scenarios. Event trees technique. System analysis. Estimations of frequencies of accident scenarios. 6 Summary of gas dispersion into an integrated set. Examples - demonstration of dispersion models. 7 Summary of gas fires into an integrated set. Examples of estimates. 8 Summary of gas explosions into an integrated set. Examples - demonstration of explosion models. 9 The accident at T2 Laboratories. Estimations of accident consequencies. Identification and estimations of the frequency of accidents. Prevention and mitigation of runaway. 10 Exothermic reaction as a hazard. SIS and SIL, three examples. 11 Determining priorities for risk management. The procedure and results of the risk analysis. Using risk analysis to assess the real system. Troubles with safety management. 12 The problems that are difficult for risk analysis. Multiphase risk analysis. LOPA. CPQRA. 13 Analysis of blasting - application of method LOPA. application of RENO. Simulation risk analysis. Use of data describing the behavior obtained by testing.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
Summarize and repeat the whole range of teaching occupational safety and process safety based on the examples and in English.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Didactic test

Recommended literature
  • Crowl LA, Louvar JF:. Chemical Process Safety, Fundamentals with Applications, Third Edition, Pearson Education, Boston, 2011.


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