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Hazard science

Anotace

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. Risk trade-off, concepts ALARP a ALARA, ethical aspects of HSE, risk communication.

Povinná literatura

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

Doporučená literatura

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


Language of instruction angličtina
Code 040-0352
Abbreviation HASC
Course title Hazard science
Coordinating department Department of Occupational and Process Safety
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.