Risk and Accident Analysis

Aim

On completion of the course, the student should be able to - account for theories/models and methods in the area of risk control and system security that are appropriate for describing, analysing and understanding risks and accidents in socio-technical systems - demonstrate knowledge of common accident models, natural accident theory, high reliability organisation theory, and resilience engineering, and be able to recognise concepts from these theories in (non-) scientific accident reports - demonstrate knowledge of common risk analysis methods, such as fault trees, event trees and functional modelling, and be able to apply selected methods on smaller systems and accident descriptions in a practical way

Content

The contents of the course are focused on - models and methods for describing and analysing accidents and risks - human-technology-organisation - normal accident theory - high reliability organisations - resilience engineering - practical application in real investigations