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Terminated in academic year 2014/2015

Industrial Risks

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0729/01
Abbreviation PR
Course title Industrial Risks
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Risk definition, risk characteristic, acure and chronic risks
2. Industrial risk with regards of environment and public
3. Case studies of important accident and pollutions (Seveso,
Bhópál, Flixborough, Feyzin, Baia Mare, brownfields)
4. Major accidents and european and national legislation
(Direktiva Seveso II, IPPC, ATEX…)
5. Behaviour of dangerous cheicals in accident and their impacts to public, facility and environment
6. Toxic releases, fires, explosions. BLEVE, VCE, boil-over, flash-fire, jet fire.
7. Accident impact modelling
8. Risk analysis, deterministic and probabilistic approach, index methods, semiquantitative and quantitative methods.
9. Methods recommended in CR and EU.
10. Fault tree diagrams, even tree diagrams, barrier approach to risk elimination (bow-tie diagram).
11. Management systems of major accident prevention, EMS, ISO 14000 and integrated management system.
12. Accident preparedness, internal emergency planning, external emergency planning, stakeholders in major accidents.
13. Risk perception, risk communcation, public participation.
14. Programme UNEP APELL.

Literature

Dow´s fire & explosion index hazard classification guide. Seventh edition.
New York: American Institute of chemical engineers, 1994. 83 s.
ISBN 0-8169-0623-8.

Advised literature

Gondek, H.: Mining machinery, VŠB-TU Ostrava 2004, ISBN: 80-248-0820-X (brož.),