Risk management
Summary
This course provides students with the opportunity to acquire the methods and tools necessary for modern risk management from an engineering standpoint. It emphasizes actors, resources, and objectives, all while ensuring economic and social sustainability.
Content
- Management techniques
- Enterprise 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 risk management
2. Risk diagnostic
3. Risk reduction/mitigation
4. Accident analysis
5. Crisis Management
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
Risk assessment
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Argue 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/scenario
- Assess / Evaluate the level of risk of a situation
- Integrate risk with the economy, society and the environment
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
Final project
Supervision
Office hours | No |
Assistants | No |
Forum | No |
Resources
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
No
Bibliography
Meyer, Thierry and Reniers, Genserik. Engineering Risk Management, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110665338
Ressources en bibliothèque
Websites
Moodle Link
Dans les plans d'études
- Semestre: Printemps
- Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
- Matière examinée: Risk management
- Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
- Type: optionnel
- Semestre: Printemps
- Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
- Matière examinée: Risk management
- Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
- Type: optionnel
- Semestre: Printemps
- Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
- Matière examinée: Risk management
- Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
- Type: optionnel
- Semestre: Printemps
- Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
- Matière examinée: Risk management
- Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
- Type: optionnel
- Semestre: Printemps
- Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
- Matière examinée: Risk management
- Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
- Type: optionnel
- Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
- Matière examinée: Risk management
- Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
- Type: optionnel
- Semestre: Printemps
- Forme de l'examen: Pendant le semestre (session d'été)
- Matière examinée: Risk management
- Cours: 2 Heure(s) hebdo x 14 semaines
- Type: optionnel
Semaine de référence
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