Course detail

Risk Management Fundamentals

FSI-DMR Acad. year: 2021/2022 Summer semester

The main content of the course is a review of approaches to risk management and safety assurance in new and operating machinery.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course provides the students with basic knowledge from the given field.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of mathematics in the extent of previous studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is expected.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures. According to the possibility of teaching can be organized lectures for students by practitioners and excursions to companies focused on activities related to the course content.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for course-unit credit award: active participation in lectures and seminars, semestral work elaboration, test; in justified cases, the lecturer may set alternative requirements.

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the basics of risk management in machinery.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Presence in lectures is recommended, presence in seminars is compulsory.
In justified cases alternative form of tuition, solution of individual semestral project.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B-VTE-P: Production Technology, Bachelor's
branch ---: no specialisation, 5 credits, compulsory

Programme B-STR-P: Engineering, Bachelor's
branch KSB: Quality, Reliability and Safety, 5 credits, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Introduction to risk management – motivation.
2. Basic terminology from the field of machinery safety.
3. Hazard and risk
4. Risk analysis
5. Risk reduction
6. Machinery directive.
7. Electricity directive.
8. Electromagnetic compatibility.
9. Harmonized standards.
10. Functional safety – performance level
11. Functional safety – SIL.
12. Documentation of risk management.
13. Case studies.

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Semestral work assignmnent
2.-10. Elaboration of semestral work under teacher´s supervision
11.-12. Presentation of semestral works
13. Course-unit credit award.