COURSES

Goals

Knowledge and understanding: - Detailed understanding of various safety aspects (process, occupational, etc.), - Evaluation of process safety management principles in industrial organizations, statutory agencies and research organizations, - Evaluation of usefulness of analysis methods for risk assessment. General Competences: - To master selected research methods, procedures, processes and tools, - Select method and tools for risk assessment, - Develop critical thinking and self-assessment, - Evaluate related uncertainties, - Infer the meaning of risks on the decision making (management systems), - Application of the obtained knowledge, - Able to cooperate in a team.

Curriculum

- Characteristics of the past major accidents (historical overview, trends, societal response). - Identification and assessment of process safety risks (methods for hazards identification, development of major accident scenarios, methods and tools for assessment of consequences and their likelihoods, domino effects potential). - Use of the risk assessment results (safety analysis) for risk reduction, licensing procedures (tolerability assessment) related to the environmental impact assessment, emergency response planning, informing the public, spatial planning, etc. - Process safety management systems. - Assessment of management quality of the organizations/establishments, evaluation of the safety climate (culture), assessment and management of human reliability. - Root cause analysis of the process safety incidents and accidents.