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Risk management
ENG-430
Lecturer(s) :
Meyer ThierryLanguage:
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
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
Websites
Moodle Link
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Lecture
Exercise, TP
Project, other
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- Autumn semester
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- Spring semester
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- Lecture in French
- Lecture in English
- Lecture in German