040-0700/01 – What is safety in real world (IS)
| Gurantor department | Department of Occupational and Process Safety | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2022/2023 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
After the course will be completed, students will be able to understand the safety science, consisting of risk management and subsequent decision-making steps in prevention, perception of risk, and and safety systems (processes). Together with mastering theoretical foundations, and by using examples from the practice, students will gain skills in the practical implementation of the risk management process in all core faculty-taught areas, allowing students to understand the complexity of the field of safety science. Students will understand that theories, principles, and rules are the same in all areas of safety and security, they will know these rules and master the terminology of the field necessary for professional communication, including obtaining information about current terminological problems. The knowledge and skills gained will contribute to analytical and critical thinking development, enabling qualified and flexible decision-making regarding uncertainty and complexity in risk management.
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Summary
The basic concept of this subject is safety science. It is an entry-level subject of complexity (and resilience) in the field of safety science and related risk rationalization, bringing information on the common basics of risk management. Students will be acquainted with the theoretical basics of safety/security, hazards, risks, and their management, and with risk prevention, practical rules, procedures, and tools. Overall, the subject matter is designed to respect the state-of-the-art in safety, in addition to the applicable standards and approaches used at UN, OECD, and EU levels.
The main objective is to present an integrated perspective, up-to-date knowledge, and practical guidance on how to understand, assess, and manage both predictable and unpredictable potential risk situations in practical conditions in society or industry. It also shows how it is necessary, in a rapidly changing environment, to develop strategies and tactics for effective decision-making and management that enable safety/security to be preserved as a quality of life, protection of property and values, functionality of technology and infrastructure systems and society at various levels, from business to government.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
PERROW, Charles. Normal accidents: Living with high risk technologies-Updated edition. Princeton university press, 2011.
TALEB, Nassim Nicholas. The black swan: The impact of the highly improbable. (2nd ed.), London: Penguin,, 2010. V češtině: Černá labuť,
ISBN: 9788074321283, nakl. Paseka, 2011
ROESER, Sabine, et al. (ed.). Essentials of risk theory. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.
RENN, Ortwin. Risk governance: coping with uncertainty in a complex world. London: Earthscan, 2008.
ISBN 978-1-84407-292-7.
Aven, T., 2012. Foundations of Risk Analysis: Second Edition. Wiley. ISBN: 978-1-119-96697-5
MCKINNON, Ron C. Safety management: near miss identification, recognition, and investigation. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2012.
ISBN 978-1-4398-7946-7.
BAHR, Nicholas J. System safety engineering and risk assessment: a practical approach. Second edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015].
ISBN 978-1-4665-5160-2.
HAIMES, Yacov Y. Risk modeling, assessment, and management. Fourth edition. Hoboken: Wiley, [2016]. Wiley series in systems engineering and management.
ISBN 978-1-119-01798-1.
SMITH, Preston G.; MERRITT, Guy M. Proactive risk management: Controlling uncertainty in product development. Productivity Press, 2002.
BAUBION, Charles. OECD Risk Management. 2013.
US DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Risk Management Fundamentals: Homeland Security Risk Management Doctrine. 2011.
HOPKIN, Paul. Fundamentals of risk management: understanding, evaluating and implementing effective risk management. Kogan Page Publishers, 2018.
MEYER, Thierry; RENIERS, Genserik. Engineering risk management. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2016.
POLJANSEK, Karmen, et al. Science for disaster risk management 2017: knowing better and losing less. ETH Zurich, 2017.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
1. Processing, presentation and advocacy of semester work. Create, present and defend (respond to queries) a selected topic in the field of security with the help of available presentation tools. The list of topics will be sent to students during the semester (after mutual agreement, the topic can be your own).
2. Presentation of news / attractions / Possibility to present news (news) or interest from the field of risk management as part of the exercise.
3. Knowledge test A written test will verify knowledge (questions with choice of answers + open questions).
E-learning
Other requirements
Elaboration of a semester project on a given topic and its presentation.
Credit test.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Safety and risk in society, business and private life are the reasons for the emergence of safety and security science, its theories and its empirical and structured forms. Introduction to risk assessment and perception of containing and safety systems and processes (methods) that can be used to manage risks. The relationship of safety and risk.
2. Terminology and the basic concept of risk as an effect of uncertainty on the achievement of objectives. Risk due to exposure to an endangered hazard target, effect and relevance of the scenario.
3. Chronic and acute risks, existential and common risks. System dysfunction as a source of accidents and incidents.
4. Risk management systems with social, economic and environmental objectives, risk management standards (predictions and safety paradigms).
5. Principles of the risk management target setting process, their framework, complexity and depth. Subjective nature of targets. Composition of risk management implementation team.
6. Actors in risk management, their roles, responsibilities, and relationships - risk owners, risk-bearers, regulators, analysts and managers. Building a knowledge base.
7. Risk management and management, the basics of decision theory. Risk analysis and difference in risk analysis and assessment.
8. Principles of safety management and management hierarchy. How to implement feasible and effective control solutions. Setting prevention targets: "How safe is safe enough?” ALARA and ALARP principles. Risk management decision-making process. Risk trade-off. Social and ethical aspects of risk management.
9. Risk prevention tools and their selection methods. Prevention and preparedness, business continuity and crisis management in the business.
10. Communication about risk. The ethics of risk management. Security challenges in modern society.
11. Complexity in security sciences and related risk rationalisation (models and simulations). Areas of specific risks - existential risks, emerging and changing risks, threats and security incidents, combined risks, multiple risks and systemic risks.
12. Application of risk theory in occupational and process safety, environmental protection, fire protection and safety.
13. Current challenges in safety science.
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