1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

MM81 5 Risk Technology (Plant and
Property)
6 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: lectures and tutorials
A second year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
Management
Objectives
To develop the use of standards concerning natural and
industrial hazards.
Content
Historical development of standards; use of design principles
to preventt loss; human element factors in risk management
programs; risk management simulations and applications.
Development of skills and techniques to identify and control
particular hazards endemic to property loss.
Fire flame, heat and smoke detection, extinguishing systems;
water, C022, dry chemical, halon and foam, water sprinkler
system design, Australian and US standards and codes.
Explosion detection and suppression, dusts, boilers and
pressure vessels, gas trains.
Flammable substances handling and storage, Victorian and
Australian Regulations.
Protection against natural hazards floods, wind, storms,
earthquakes and fire.
Protection within the confines of industry heating and
electrical systems.
Recommended reading
Code, AS1940 Flammable Liquids Code, AS1596 LP Gas Code
Dangerous Goods Act (Storage and Handling) Regulations
1989, Victorian Government Printer
Factory Mutual System, various data sheets
National Fire Protection Association. Fire Protection
Handbook. 17th edn, Quincy, Mass., National Fire Protection
Assoc., 1991
National Fire Protection Association, various Codes of Practice
MM81 6 Risk Technology (Maintenance)
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: lectures, seminars and site visits
A second year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
Management
Objectives
To provide an overview of maintenance practices and
technologies used to predict plant performance reductions
from the onset of damage and to introduce methods used to
improve operating ~erformance through monitoring
procedures.
Content
Designing a maintenance program, selection procedures and
parameters.
Monitoring systems, performance and condition for
thermography, noise, vibration power, efficiency.
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Noise control, sound measurement and analysis, sound
propagation predictions, acceptability and standards, noise
reduction methods.
Vibration control, vibration measurement, analysis and
control, machinery balancing.
Computer modelling, language and program structure,
algorithms and flow charting, modelling real systems.
Recommended reading
Beebe, R.S., Machine Condition Monitoring. 2nd edn, Victoria,
Engineering Publications, 1988
Buley, M., Industrial Noise Control. Melbourne, Swinburne Press,
1991
Steidel, R.F., An Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations. 3rd edn,
New York, Wiley, 1989
Thompson, W.T., Theory of Mechanical Vibrations. Unwyn, 1987
MM81 7 Risk Research
7 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: lectures, group work and tutorials
A second year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
Management
Objectives
To encourage students to develop skills and techniques for
conducting and reporting on research in the field of risk
management.
Content
Research methodology and orientation.
Resource gathering techniques; data acquisitions and
analysis.
Use of library as resource centre.
Research communication techniques.
Recommended reading
Lane, N., Techniques for Student Research. Melbourne, Longman
Cheshire, 1989
Leedy, P.D., Practical Research Planning and Design. 5th edn,
New York, Macmillan, 1993
MM81 8 Risk Engineering Science
(Health and Safety)
6 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: lectures and tutorials
A second year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
Management
Objectives
To extend the MM810 introductory work in practical
applications as indicated below.
Content
Engineering risk control for external and internal energy
sources.
Application of the event synthesis technique to a class of
events and of the fault tree analysis to a typical machine or
process.
Justification, priority setting and work scheduling for risk
control tasks.
Machinery safeguarding design, legal principles and
requirements, design criteria, codes and standards, process of
design of safeguards.