Product safety

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	040-0356/01
Abbreviation	PS
Course title	Product safety
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Occupational and Process Safety
Course coordinator	Ing. Petr Lepík, Ph.D.

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)

E-learning

students have materials available in the LMS

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. .
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

Advised 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

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