ENT303: Risk and Hazard Management

School Cardiff School of Engineering
Department Code ENGIN
Module Code ENT303
External Subject Code H120
Number of Credits 15
Level L7
Language of Delivery English
Module Leader Professor Philip Bowen
Semester Double Semester
Academic Year 2012/3

Outline Description of Module

  • Demonstrate an increased awareness of the obligations upon professional engineers in respect of risk and hazard assessment.
  • Identify and quantify risks/hazards in an engineering and legislative context.
  • Apply their knowledge to ensure suitable risk and hazard awareness within the workplace

On completion of the module a student should be able to

  • Have demonstrable knowledge of current and historical UK safety regulations
  • Be able to quantify risks and hazards
  • Be familiar with concepts of mitigation and elimination via the interpretation, formulation and solution of typical engineering-project problems.
     

How the module will be delivered

This module will be delivered over 3 weekends, with each weekend comprising 6 hours of lectures and/or structured tutorials.  Lectures, illustrated by formal examples, are used to explain the basic principles and applications.  Less formal example/tutorial classes are used to help students apply the knowledge and understanding gained from the lectures.  Self-guided learning will be necessary for the student to understand all the risks associated with a project/system.

Skills that will be practised and developed

  • Apply models for risk analysis and hazard quantification.
  • To prepare a legislatively defensible risk and hazard framework for engineering systems/projects that are familiar in the work-place
  • To gain confidence in preparing complex risk assessments, and thus be able to assist colleagues in assessing systems/projects with which they are more familiar. 

How the module will be assessed

 

The student will be required to submit two piece of coursework, of approximately 3000 words (e.g. 7-10 pages) and covering: 
o Outline the general principle of the subject and describe how risk & hazard management is particularly relevant to their sector
o Prepare a legislatively defensible risk and hazard framework for engineering systems/projects that are familiar in the workplace

Assessment Breakdown

Type % Title Duration(hrs)
Written Assessment 100 Risk And Hazard Management N/A

Syllabus content

 

The module syllabus will include:
  • Chartered Engineering Obligations 
  • Safety and Loss Prevention
  • Legislation, Law and Insurance
  • Legal Framework and The Health & Safety Executive
  • EU Directives
  • Economics of Loss Prevention
  • Cost of Losses and Prevention
  • Damage Insurance
  • Hazard Identification & Safety Audit
  • Methods for Hazard Identification : What If?; Fault/Event tree Analysis
  • HAZOP; FMEA 
  • Audits/Management Systems
  • Hazard Indices
  • Hazard Quantification
  • General Modelling Approaches
  • Empirical Tools; Computational (Numerical) Codes; Phenomenological Models
  • Quantified Risk Analysis (QRA)
  • Approach and practical examples

Essential Reading and Resource List

 

Hazard Identification and RA Wells IChemE; ISBN 0-85295-353-4 (1997)
Risk Assessment in the Pitbaldo and Turney IChemE
Process Industries (2nd Ed) ISBN 0-85295-323-2 (1996)
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