040-0356/01 – Product safety (PS)

Gurantor department	Department of Occupational and Process Safety	Credits	5
Subject guarantor	Ing. Petr Lepík, Ph.D.	Subject version guarantor	Ing. Petr Lepík, Ph.D.
Study level	undergraduate or graduate	Requirement	Choice-compulsory type B
Year	1	Semester	summer
		Study language	English
Year of introduction	2019/2020	Year of cancellation
Intended for the faculties	FBI	Intended for study types	Follow-up Master

Instruction secured by
Login	Name	Tuitor	Teacher giving lectures
LEP016	Ing. Petr Lepík, Ph.D.
VEZ01	Ing. Hana Věžníková, Ph.D.

Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of study	Way of compl.	Extent
Full-time	Credit and Examination	28+14

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

Understand and apply the basic safety procedures of product safety.

Teaching methods

Lectures
Tutorials

Summary

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basic rules relating to safety products wither product marketing and testing. The second part of the course focuses on the basic requirements for the protection of health and safety at work in a non-explosive environment. Students will be able to understand and apply basic technical safety procedures in the field of product safety.

Compulsory literature:

BABRAUSKAS, V. Ignition handbook: principles and applications to fire safety engineering, fire investigation, risk management and forensic science. Issaquah, WA: Fire Science Publishers, c2003, viii, 1116 p.ISBN 09-728-1113-3. BARTKNECHT, W. Explosionen: Ablauf und Schutzmassnahmen. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1978, x, 264 p. ISBN 0387086757. Blue Guide’ on the implementation of EU product rules. [on-line]. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/content/‘blue-guide’-implementation-eu-product-rules-0_en

Recommended literature:

ECKHOFF, R. K. Dust explosions in the process industries. 3rd ed. Boston: Gulf Professional Pub., c2003, xxi, 719 p. ISBN 0-7506-7602-7. EU. ATEX GUIDELINES on the Applicationof Directive 94/9/EC. 4.th ed– September, 2012. [on-line]. http://www.lcie.fr/medias/atex_directive_94-9-ec_guidelines.pdf

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

E-learning

Other requirements

Presentation of results of a solved example, combined exam (written and oral part)

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Introduction to Product Safety 2. Systems to ensure product safety - legislation 3. Normalization and technical standards, harmonized documents 4. The legal bases of the new approach to certification 5. Testing and demonstration of product properties 6. Accreditation and Notification 7. Metrology and measurement management system 8. Product documentation, declaration of conformity, instructions for use 9. Responsibility to products and their users 10. Individual EU product group regulations and directives 11. Basic principles and division of explosion 12. Primary, secondary and tertiary (structural) explosion prevention 13. ATEX (Application of EU Product Directive 94/9 / EC)

Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 2019/2020 Summer semester)

Task name	Type of task	Max. number of points (act. for subtasks)	Min. number of points	Max. počet pokusů
Credit and Examination	Credit and Examination	100 (100)	51
Credit	Credit	30	16
Examination	Examination	70	51	3

Valid from	Valid until	Mandatory attendence participation
Mar 16, 2018 10:23:35 AM	Jan 13, 2023 1:58:47 PM	The requirement for credit for students of full-time study is active participation in lessons (max. 2 absences are allowed) and creation and presentation of semestral work. Semester work needs to be submitted electronically and must meet the basic requirements - ie title page (name of the subject, a name of the work, a name of the student, year and form of study and date of work).

Mandatory attendence participation: The requirement for credit for students of full-time study is active participation in lessons (max. 2 absences are allowed) and creation and presentation of semestral work. Semester work needs to be submitted electronically and must meet the basic requirements - ie title page (name of the subject, a name of the work, a name of the student, year and form of study, and date of work).

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Conditions for subject completion and attendance at the exercises within ISP: The requirement for credit for students of full-time study is the creation of semestral work. Semester work must be submitted electronically and must meet the basic requirements - ie title page (name of the subject, a name of the work, a name of the student, year and form of study and date of work).

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Occurrence in study plans

Academic year	Programme	Form	Study language	Tut. centre	Year	Type of duty
2024/2025	(N1022A020001) HSE Professional	P	English	Ostrava	1	Choice-compulsory type B	study plan
2023/2024	(N1022A020001) HSE Professional	P	English	Ostrava	1	Choice-compulsory type B	study plan
2022/2023	(N1022A020001) HSE Professional	P	English	Ostrava	1	Choice-compulsory type B	study plan
2021/2022	(N1022A020001) HSE Professional	P	English	Ostrava	1	Choice-compulsory type B	study plan
2020/2021	(N1022A020001) HSE Professional	P	English	Ostrava	1	Choice-compulsory type B	study plan
2019/2020	(N1022A020001) HSE Professional	P	English	Ostrava	1	Choice-compulsory type B	study plan

Occurrence in special blocks

Block name	Academic year	Form of study	Study language	Year	W	S	Type of block	Block owner

Assessment of instruction

2021/2022 Summer