Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Discipline on Hazards

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	050-0003/01
Abbreviation	NoN
Course title	Discipline on Hazards
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Civil Protection
Course coordinator	prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic concepts of safety and hazard, risk management, threat, catastrophe.
2. Ethics and coping with hazard, danger as a philosophical category.
3. The concepts of risk, safety, risks, threats, etc., from the perspective gnoseologic.
4. A systematic and systemic approach to security, the general rules of tools and methods for its study.
5. Specific areas of security - health and epidemiology, working environment, environment, social risks, terrorism and war conflicts.
6. The crisis, principle, the creation, development and solutions.

Literature

Kovář,L.:Disaster threatens humanity? Rubiko Prag 2003,
Layer of Protection Analysis: Simplified Process Risk Assessment, Center for
Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), ISBN:0-8169-0811-7
Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed
Chemical Sites, Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS),
M.T. Todinov: Reliability and Risk Models, John Wiley & Sons 2005,

Časopisy: 112, Rescue Report, Spektrum

Advised literature

RBDM (Risk Based Decision Making) Guidelines: Volume 1-4. http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg5211/E-Guidelines.asp. US Coast Guard.
Aven, T, and Renn, O.: Risk Management and Governance. Concepts, Guidelines and Applications. Heidelberg and New York (Springer 2010)
Jovanovic, A.S.; Renn, O. and Schröter, R.: Social Unrest. OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies. Paris (OECD Publishing 2012)
Major Hazards and Their Management ; by Geoff Wells; Institution of Chemical Engineers, Rugby, UK, 305 pages.

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