040-0352/01 – Hazard science (HASC)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Occupational and Process SafetyCredits5
Subject guarantorprof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.Subject version guarantorprof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year1Semesterwinter
Study languageEnglish
Year of introduction2018/2019Year of cancellation
Intended for the facultiesFBIIntended for study typesFollow-up Master
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
DAN40 prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.
PRI127 Ing. Radka Přichystalová, Ph.D.
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit and Examination 2+2

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

To know and to use adequately basic terminology in hazard science and risk management, including overlaps with environment. To understand hazard as a source of risk, to understand steps and principles of hazard and risk management. To employ actively the knowledge of various hazards and risk types and various modes of their assessment, including uncertainties. To know hazard and risk relations in society, to identify key stakeholders and their positions.

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Summary

1. Hazard and risk as an inherent part of life of individual people and society 2. Terminology in hazard and risk, concepts in work safety, environment, process safety, disaster risk reduction, their overlaps and differences. 3. Process of hazard/danger flux, model MADS 4. Deterministic a probabilistic risk concepts 5. Stakeholders in risk management in the framework of HSE and their relations - risk owners, risk bearers, regulator, risk managers. Regulation enforcement. 6. Hazard, danger - types and properties, hazards of material objects, hazardous situations, hazards identification. 7. Hazard and danger as intensive and extensive parameters, endangered targets, main hazard types in HSE. 8. Danger materialization scenarios, their selection and adequate for risk management. 9. Uncertainty problems in the process of hazard/risk identification: known/known threats, known/unknown threats, unknown/unknown threats. Black swam concept of Taleb. 10. Risk management goals in various risk conditions as societal decision. 11. Identification of incident impacts and their quantification and assessment. Problem of impacts harmonization from the point of view of enterprise/society priorities. 12. Ways of uncertainty expression - probability, frequency, other methods. 13. Decision making in HSE management process and related strategies. 14. Risk trade-off, concepts ALARP a ALARA, ethical aspects of HSE, risk communication

Compulsory literature:

Poljanšek, K., Marín Ferrer, M., De Groeve, T., Clark, I. (Eds.), 2017. Science for disaster risk management 2017: knowingbetter and losingless. EUR 28034 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, ISBN 978-92-79-60679-3,doi:10.2788/842809, JRC102482

Recommended literature:

UNISDR Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations 2009 (http://www.unisdr.org/files/7817_UNISDRTerminologyEnglish.pdf) Report of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction, UNISDR 2016, http://www.preventionweb.net/files/50683_oiewgreportenglish.pdf Terje Aven and col.: Uncertainty in Risk Assessment The Representation and Treatment of Uncertainties by Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Methods, ISBN:978-1-l18-48958-1

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

E-learning

Other requirements

no others requirements

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Nebezpečí a riziko jako inherentní součást života jedince, podniku i společnosti 2. Terminologie v oblasti nebezpečí a rizika; koncepty v rámci bezpečnosti práce, ochrany životního prostředí, bezpečnosti procesů a snižování rizik katastrof, jejich shody a neshody 3. Proces vzniku a šíření nebezpečí, model MADS 4. Deterministické a probabilistické koncepty rizika 5. Stakeholdeři při řízení rizik v rámci HSE a jejich vztahy – vlastníci rizik, nositelé rizik, manažer HSE, regulátor, prosazování práva 6. Nebezpečnost a její typy a vlastnosti, nebezpečnost hmotných objektů a situací, způsob identifikace nebezpečnosti 7. Nebezpečnost jako intenzivní a nebezpečí jako extenzivní veličina, možné ohrožené cíle. Hlavní typy nebezpečí v rámci HSE managementu 8. Scénáře projevů nebezpečí, jejich hledání a výběr relevantních k řízení rizik 9. Problémy nejistoty při identifikaci nebezpečí a rizika – známé/známé hrozby, známé/neznámé a neznámé/neznámé hrozby. Koncept „blackswam“ dle Taleba 10. Definice cílů managementu rizik v rozdílných podmínkách jako rozhodnutí společnosti 11. Identifikace možných dopadů nechtěných událostí a jejich kvantifikace a hodnocení, Problém harmonizace škál dopadů z pohledu priorit podniku/společnosti 12. Způsoby vyjadřování nejistoty – pravděpodobnost, frekvence, ostatní způsoby 13. Rozhodovací procesy v managementu HSE a jejich strategie 14. Risk trade-off, koncepty ALARP a ALARA, etické otázky HSE, Nebezpečí a komunikace

Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 2020/2021 Winter semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Credit and Examination Credit and Examination 100 (100) 51
        Credit Credit 30  10
        Examination Examination 70  21 3
Mandatory attendence participation: participation in seminars, elaboration of semestral work, passing written and oral exam

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2024/2025 (N1022A020001) HSE Professional P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2023/2024 (N1022A020001) HSE Professional P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2022/2023 (N1022A020001) HSE Professional P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2021/2022 (N1022A020001) HSE Professional P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2020/2021 (N1022A020001) HSE Professional P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan
2019/2020 (N1022A020001) HSE Professional P English Ostrava 1 Compulsory study plan

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