Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Engineering
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Module Offerings
7114MECH-SEP-CTY
Aims
This module covers the application of modern risk management techniques for the identification, evaluation and control of the risk to enable improvements in the safety and reliability of engineering systems.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluates hazards and recognize their consequences.
2.
Apply risk assessment techniques to assist in the appropriate decisions making based on evaluation and assessment of identified risk.
3.
Accurately relate human factors to risk and its acceptability
4.
Apply professional standards using statistical techniques appropriately to analyse reliability, maintainability and availability.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Accident analysis and Loss Control: Definitions of the commonly used terms in risk analysis, e.g. risk, hazard, danger, chance, uncertainty and probability. Examples of their application. Public perception of risk. Hazard identification and risk estimation. Problem of multiple outcomes and consequences. Decision making based on assessment and evaluation of risk: Inclusion of emergency and contingency planning in the decision making process. Use of failure statistics. Techniques of safety management utilizing risk reduction measures and loss control techniques.
Human Factors: Application of typical human error assessment models. Attitudes towards risk and its acceptability.
Safety Engineering: Performance standards and the measurement of safety outcomes. Measurement of success and failure probabilities. Studies of plant reliability and availability. Hazard operability studies and their application to complex plant. Standard failure prevention techniques - Failure mode and effects criticality analysis, Fault tree analysis and Event tree analysis. Statistical analysis of reliability. Design for safety. The relevant standards.
Additional Information:The module is designed to allow students to investigate and apply risk analysis and safe engineering techniques within an industrial setting, including the associated human factors