Description:

The course is focused on understanding the issue of safety, learning how to assess new systems in terms of safety and acquiring principles of safety management. Students will learn explaining accidents and incident causes and bridge their theoretical knowledge with practical problems of air transport.

Contents:

1. Safety engineering history
2. Safety models and methods
3. Safety-II and Safety-III
4. Resilience
5. Safety management
6. Design and manufacture of safe systems
7. Safety oversight
8. Accident and incident investigation

Seminar contents:

1. Safety models and methods - technical, human factors, organizational
2. Systems Theoretic Accident Modeling and Processes (STAMP)
3. Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM)
4. Safety cases, real-scale applications

Recommended literature:

Leveson, N. Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2012.
Hollnagel, E. Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management. Burlington: Ashgate, 2014.
Hollnagel, E. Safety-II in Practice: Developing the Resilience Potentials. Routledge, 2017.

Keywords:

aviation and aerospace; resilience enginering; safety engineering; safety management; system safety

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar