Course syllabus for Risk and safety management

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Course syllabus adopted 2021-02-26 by Head of Programme (or corresponding).

Overview

  • Swedish nameRisk- och säkerhetsstyrning
  • CodeSJO837
  • Credits7.5 Credits
  • OwnerMPMAR
  • Education cycleSecond-cycle
  • Main field of studyShipping and Marine Technology
  • DepartmentMECHANICS AND MARITIME SCIENCES
  • GradingTH - Pass with distinction (5), Pass with credit (4), Pass (3), Fail

Course round 1

  • Teaching language English
  • Application code 01115
  • Maximum participants60
  • Open for exchange studentsYes

Credit distribution

0116 Examination 5 c
Grading: TH		 5 c
  • 31 Maj 2022 pm L
  • 09 Okt 2021 am L
  • 25 Aug 2022 pm L
0216 Project 2.5 c
Grading: UG		 2.5 c

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Examiner

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Eligibility

General entry requirements for Master's level (second cycle)
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.

Specific entry requirements

English 6 (or by other approved means with the equivalent proficiency level)
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.

Course specific prerequisites

None.

Aim

The course aims at providing an in-depth understanding of risk management and safety from a transport and operations perspective in order to achieve economical, ecological, and social sustainability. It includes prerequisites of and the processes and tools related to risk management, e g risk assessment, as well as to safety management systems and culture and risk management methodology. 

Moreover, the course aims at providing a base for skills in concepts such as risks, likelihood and magnitude, preventive actions, preparedness and contingency planning, monitoring and improvement of the framework together with some elements of societal resilience. Furthermore security demands and needs in relation to risk management framework.

Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)

- Describe the basic concept of risk and safety.
- Illustrate safety culture and establish a safety management system with working processes.
- Apply a risk management methodology and use risk and reliability tools to identify, analyze, evaluate, and reduce risks.
- Use a structured methodology for decision making under uncertain situations
- Explain fundamental legal aspects, and demands in standards, of risk, safety and security.
- Understand and analyze the complexity of risk management and safety management system.
- Demonstrate understanding of preparedness planning and contingency planning.
- Demonstrate in-depth ability to identify further needs of additional knowledge and skills for safer and more sustainable world.

Content

The course covers the following topics:

- Theoretical basics of risk management.
- Legislative approach in regards to safety and security issues.
- Risk management standards and contents.
- Risk assessment, including identification, analysis and evaluation of risks.
- Systematic methodology for how to prevent, detect and reduce risks.
- Methods for qualitative and quantitative risk assessment.
- Safety culture and safety management systems.
- Risk management framework and tools such as training, monitoring, communication and improvement.
- Workshops in the use of risk and reliability tools, and how to make decision support in uncertain situations.

Organisation

The course follows a problem-oriented pedagogy, and consists of lectures, workshops, and a project. It consists of one generic part on risk management, and projects on transport and operations. The learning activities are:

- Lectures: Provides theoretical foundation and support for project work
- Workshops: Practical training in risk and reliability tools, and decision making in uncertain conditions
- Study visits
- Project: Applying skills learned throughout the course to improve reliability, decrease risk, handle uncertainty from a transport and/or operations perspective
- Presentation: Be able to present project results to top-level decision-makers

Literature

See Course guide.

Examination including compulsory elements

Project based examination, which includes written project report and presentation, workshops and a written knowledge test. The students must be approved on all individual examination forms to pass the course. 

The course examiner may assess individual students in other ways than what is stated above if there are special reasons for doing so, for example if a student has a decision from Chalmers on educational support due to disability.

The course syllabus contains changes

  • Changes to examination:
    • 2021-09-21: Grade raising Changed to grade raising by GRULG