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Hazard science

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 040-0352/01
Abbreviation HASC
Course title Hazard science
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Occupational and Process Safety
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Danger and risk as an inherent part of the life of an individual, company and society
2. Hazard and risk terminology; concepts within occupational safety, environmental protection, process safety and disaster risk reduction, their conformity and non-conformity
3. Process of creation and spread of danger, MADS model
4. Deterministic and probabilistic concepts of risk
5. Stakeholders in HSE risk management and their relationships – risk owners, risk bearers, HSE manager, regulator, law enforcement
6. Danger and its types and properties, danger of material objects and situations, method of identifying danger
7. Danger as an intensive and danger as an extensive quantity, possible endangered targets. Main types of hazards within HSE management
8. Scenarios of danger manifestations, their search and selection relevant to risk management
9. Uncertainty issues in hazard and risk identification – known/known threats, known/unknown and unknown/unknown threats. The concept of "blackswam" according to Taleb
10. Definition of risk management objectives in different conditions as a company decision
11. Identification of possible impacts of unwanted events and their quantification and evaluation, Problem of harmonizing impact scales from the perspective of company/society priorities
12. Ways of expressing uncertainty – probability, frequency, other ways
13. Decision-making processes in HSE management and their strategies. Risk trade-off, ALARP and ALARA concepts, HSE ethical issues, Danger and communication.

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

Advised 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