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MM810 Risk Engineering Science
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: lectures and tutorials
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Risk Management.
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to introduce scientific principles concerning
the interaction of humans with their environment and the
performance of physical materials, as contributing factors to
situations of risk.
Ergonomic principles; physical environment influences on
human performance due to noise and lighting; cognitive
psychology: concepts, displays and controls; error and
reliability, workplace design requirements: basic
anthropometty, human anatomy and physiology, injury
causation due to material handling, slips, trips and falls.
Material science principles: nature and property of metal and
polymer materials; fundamentals of corrosion; material
failure due to overload, fatigue and corrosion; mechanisms
of wear and principles of lubrication.
Energy principles: the nature of fire; brief introduction to
terminology of force, stress, pressure; application to fluid
flow.
Environmental principles.
References
Cote, A.E. Principles of Fire Protecrion. Quincy. Mass.: National Fire
Protection Association, 1988
Galer, I. Applied Ergonomics Handbook. 2nd ed. London:
Bunerworths, 1987
Sanders, M.S. and McCormick, E.J. Human Facton in Engineering &
Design. 7th ed, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993
Sarkar, A.D. Wear of Metals. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1976
Sarkar, A.D. Friction and Wear. London: Academic Press, 1980
Schultz, N. Fire and flammability Handbook. New York: Van Nostrand
Reinhold, 1985
Stewart, D. and Tulloch. D.S. Principles of Corrosion & Pmrection.
bndon: Macmillan, 1968
~ ~ 8 1Management 1 Practices (Health and
Safety)
No. of hours per week: two houn
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Instruction: lectures and tutorials
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Risk Management.
% Subject aims and description
rn This subject aims to provide an introduction to the
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The syllabus will comprise a common unit applicable to all
three streams of health and safety, plant and practice, and
maintenance, followed by a unit covering specific
management practice topics applicable to health and safety.
Common unit: loss forecasting and estimation; the structure
of loss data management systems; review of risk
identification principles: data surveys, work-group input,
computerised data bases; data interpretation and reporting;
review of risk interpretation techniques. Management
program audit and assessment processes.
Management practice applied to health and safety: historical
precepts of injury control; examples of application of
Victorian legislation: acts, regulations and codes. Health and
safety program principles, design and strategies; introduction
to H&S program evaluation techniques.
References
Allianz Handbook of Loss Prwention. Berlin: Allianz Mrsicherungs
AG, 1987
Hammer, W. Occupational Safety Management and Engineering.
Englwod Cliffs, N.J. Prentice Hall, 1989
Lees. F.P. Loss Prevention in the Pnxess industries. bndon:
Buttemrths, 1980
Ridley, J. Safety at Wrk. 2nd ed, London: Butteworths. 1986
Other literature to be advised
MM812 Risk Management Practices (Plant and
Property)
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: lectures and tutorials
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Risk Management.
Subject aims and description
This subied aims to orovide an introduction to the
terminolbgy and principles influencing the practice of risk
management in practical areas of property and production.
The syllabus will comprise a common unit applicable to all
three streams of health and safety, plant and practice, and
maintenance, followed by a unit covering specific
management practice topics applicable to health and safety.
Common unit: loss forecasting and estimation; the structure
of loss data management systems; review of risk
identification principles: data surveys, work-group input,
computerised data bases; data interpretation and reporting;
review of risk interpretation techniques, management
program audit and assessment processes.
Management practices applied to plant and property:
identification of property damage and business interruption
exposures. Loss forecasting and estimation methods
concerning fire and explosion, and machinery breakdown;
risk control strateqies, hiqhlv - -. protected risk and their
management, management of normal plant and property
operations, management of plant emergency conditions,
management of property recovery processes.
References
Allianz Handbook of Loss Prevention. Berlin: Allianz Versicherungs
AG, 1987
Hammer, W. Occupational Safety Management & Engineering.
Englemod Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1989
Lees, F,P. Loss Prevention in the Process Industrie~ London:
Butterworths, 1980
Ridley, 1. Safety at Work. 2nd ed, London: Bunerworths, 1986
Other literature to be advised
MM813 Risk Management Practices
(Maintenance Engineering)
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: lectures and tutorials
A subject in the Graduate Diploma in Risk Management.
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to provide an introduction to the
terminology and principles influencing the practice of risk
management in practical areas of maintenance engineering.
The syllabus will comprise a common unit applicable to all
three streams of health and safety, plant and practice, and
maintenance, followed by a unit covering specific
management practice topics applicable to health and safety.
Common unit: loss forecasting and estimation; the structure
of loss data management systems; review of risk
identification principles: data surveys, work-group input,
computerised data bases; data interpretation and reporting;
review of risk interpretation techniques, management
program audit and assessment processes.
Maintenance: maintenance engineering defined; life cycle
maintenance engineering; maintenance engineering and
design; maintenance concepts; maintenance engineering
analysis; testing demonstrations and evaluation, maintenance
and equipment improvement; maintenance data collection