Coursebooks

Risk management

ENG-430

Lecturer(s) :

Meyer Thierry

Language:

English

Summary

This course aims to enable students to master the methodology and associated tools to enable a modern risk management. It highlights the different actors, resources available and objectives while remaining economically and socially acceptable (sustainable).

Content

 

• Management techniques
• Introduction to risk management
• Hazard and risk evaluation
• Identifying risks and analyzing risks (HAZOP, FMECA, FTA, ...)
• Risk evaluation and treatment
• Event analysis
• Tolerable risk

   

  Modules :
  1. Introduction to engineering and managing risks
  2. Risk management principles
  3. Risk diagnostic
  4. Risk reduction/mitigation
  5. Event analysis
  6. Human failures and Decision making tools
  7. Example of practical implementation

 

Keywords

Risk management

Acceptable risk

Precautionary principle

Risk matrix

Risk reduction / mitigation

Crisis management

Learning Prerequisites

Recommended courses

Bachelor basic lectures  in chemistry and physics

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

• Integrate the parameters influencing an accident
• Synthesize the complex components of a hazardous situation
• Analyze a hazardous situation
• Implement corrective measures
• Investigate processes, procedures or equipments
• Restate an accident evolution
• Assess / Evaluate the level of risk of a situation
• Integrate risk into economics, social and environmental

Transversal skills

• Assess progress against the plan, and adapt the plan as appropriate.
• Set objectives and design an action plan to reach those objectives.
• Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
• Give feedback (critique) in an appropriate fashion.
• Take responsibility for health and safety of self and others in a working context.
• Take responsibility for environmental impacts of her/ his actions and decisions.
• Make an oral presentation.

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercices, pratical examples and real illustrations (movies)

Expected student activities

Small project

Assessment methods

Mid-term written exam (40%) and final project (60%)

Resources

Bibliography

Engineering Risk Management, Meyer Thierry & Reniers Genserik, de Gruyter Textbook 2nd edition, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-3-11-041803-3, e-ISBN(pdf) 978-3-11-041804-0, e-ISBN(EPUB) 978-3-11-042355-6

 

Ressources en bibliothèque

• Engineering Risk Management / Meyer

Websites

• http://scgc.epfl.ch/telechargement_cours_chimie

Moodle Link

• http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=13901