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What is safety in real world

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 040-0700/01
Abbreviation IS
Course title What is safety in real world
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Occupational and Process Safety
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.

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.

Literature

ISO 31000 RISK MANAGEMENT, 2018.
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 .
Guidelines for integrating process safety management, environment, safety, health, and quality. New York: Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, c1996. CCPS guidelines series. ISBN 0-8169-0683-1.
ASSEMBLY, UN General. Report of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction. United Nations General Assembly: New York, NY, USA, 2016, 41.

Advised 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.