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Process Safety and Risk Management
Postgraduate | CUR-ENR530 | 2021
Course information for 2021 intake
View information for 2022 course intakeStudy the best practices for ensuring safety and risk management in the process engineering sector. Register the impact regulatory and human factors have on safety processes. Learn to identify hazards and estimate risk likelihood and consequence.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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Process Safety and Risk Management
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- apply discipline knowledge, principles and concepts to evaluate potential solutions to manage risk
- think critically, creatively and reflectively in the area of process systems and risk management
- communicate effectively while solving risk management problems
- reflect on the development of skills (professional practice).
- The motivation: Major Accidents
- Risk and Risk Management
- System, Function and Failure
- Risk Identification: Plant Hazards
- Risk Identification: Human Factors and Safety Culture
- Risk Analysis: Consequences
- Risk Analysis: Likelihood
- Risk evaluation and risk treatment 1
- Risk evaluation and risk treatment 2
- Managing safety during operations
- Managing safety during operations
This subject introduces students to the practice of process safety and risk management as it is performed in the process engineering sector. Fundamental risk and process safety concepts are discussed, and many historical accident scenarios are reviewed to help students gain an appreciation for the complexities involved in managing risks in the process industries. Students assess measures of risk, as well as social issues of risk perception. Risk management across the life cycle of a process system is explored, in conjunction with inherently safer design principles. Key methods around hazard identification, consequence modelling and likelihood estimation, as precursors for estimating risk, are thoroughly examined as a central part of process safety and risk management practice. Broader issues around process safety management systems, human factors, complex systems, resilience engineering and regulatory matters are also considered. This subject uses a problem-based learning framework and develops systems thinking skills.
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- Pamphlet Present and Group Int (40%)
- Written assignment & task (20%)
- Group Risk Assessment Report (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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