IM61017: Safety And Risk Management

IM61017
Course name	Safety And Risk Management
Offered by	Industrial & Systems Engineering
Credits	3
L-T-P	3-0-0
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Semester	Spring

Syllabus

Syllabus mentioned in ERP

Prerequisite: IM21003 Operations Research-IIntroduction to Safety and Risk Management: Definitions, classification of risks, principles of risk management, traditional safety management programs, and formulation of productive safety and risk management plan.Organizing for Safety and Risk Management: Safety and risk management and the organizational strategy and visions, safety culture, risk documentation, implementation of risk management process, and OHSAS 18001.Safety and Risk Mathematics: Frequency measures â rates, probability, and statistical distributions; Reliability measures â reliability, hazard rate, and MTTF; Methods and techniques â FMEA, FMECA, FTA, ETA, PRA, and causal models.Risk Assessment, Analysis, Evaluation and Control: Overview of risk assessment process, preparing for risk assessment report, assessment of initial and residual risks, risk scoring systems, risk acceptability, hazard control hierarchy, and cost-benefit analysis.Risk Transfer and Residual Risk Financing: Traditional categories of risk transfer â insurance and self-financing; contractual risk transfer, factors affecting residual risk financing.Sociotechnical Model for Safety and Health Management: Basic concepts, personal and system factors affecting safety and health in workplace, interactive models, accident causation theory, and behavioral models of accident.Accident Causation, Injury Prevention and Safety and Health Promotion â An Epidemiological Perspective: Basic concepts, brief history of epidemiological studies, study design, data collection methods, analysis and interpretation, and implementation of epidemiological models in industry. Booksâ¢Lack, R W. (2002). Safety, health, and asset protection: Management essentials (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Lewis Publisher. ISBN: 1566703700.â¢Anton, T. J. (1989). Occupational safety and health management (2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, Inc. â¢Petersen, D. (2003). Techniques of Safety Management (4th ed.). Des â¢Brauer, R. L. (1990). Safety and health for engineers. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold. â¢Tania Mol (2003). Productive Safety Management. Butterworth Heinemaan, New York.â¢Kumamoto, H. and Henley, J.E. (1996). Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Management for Engineers and Scientists. IEEE Press, New York.â¢Bruce W.M. (2004). Risk Assessment â Basics and Benchmark. dse, inc. Michigan, USA.