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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Industrial Risks and Accident Prevention

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 040-0055/01
Abbreviation PRPH
Course title Industrial Risks and Accident Prevention
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Occupational and Process Safety
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Risk definition, risk characteristic, acure and chronic risks
2. Industrial risk with regards of environment and public
3. Case studies of important accident and pollutions (Seveso,
Bhópál, Flixborough, Feyzin, Baia Mare, brownfields)
4. Major accidents and european and national legislation
(Direktiva Seveso II, IPPC, ATEX…)
5. Behaviour of dangerous cheicals in accident and their impacts to public, facility and environment
6. Toxic releases, fires, explosions. BLEVE, VCE, boil-over, flash-fire, jet fire.
7. Accident impact modelling
8. Risk analysis, deterministic and probabilistic approach, index methods, semiquantitative and quantitative methods.
9. Methods recommended in CR and EU.
10. Fault tree diagrams, even tree diagrams, barrier approach to risk elimination (bow-tie diagram).
11. Management systems of major accident prevention, EMS, ISO 14000 and integrated management system.
12. Accident preparedness, internal emergency planning, external emergency planning, stakeholders in major accidents.
13. Risk perception, risk communcation, public participation.
14. Programme UNEP APELL.

Literature

P. Danihelka: Analysis and Management of Industrial Risks, VŠB – TU Ostrava,
2002, ISBN 80-248-0084-5

Advised literature

not require additional literature