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~ ~ 8 1Risk 8 Engineering Science (Health and
Safety)
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 extend the MM810 introductory work in
practical applications as indicated below.
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.
Isolation procedures and work permit systems, definitions,
components, procedure design reliability.
Work procedure design, principles of design, practicability
and legal criteria, reliability and behavioural control
measures.
Electrical safety, MEN system, earth leakage systems, EMR
effects, static electricity.
References
Cooper, W.F. Electrical Safety Engineering. 2nd ed, London:
Bunerworths, I 986
I Chern E. Risk Analysis in the Process Industry. Rugby: Institution of
Chemical Engineers, 1985
I Chem E. Nomenclature for Hazard and Risk Assessment in the
Process Industries. Rugby: Institution of Chemical Engineers. 1984
King. R. Industrial Hazard and Safety Handbook. London: Newnes
Butterworths, 1979
McElroy, F.E. Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations.
9th ed, Chicago: National Safety Council, 1988
Various standards on machine safeguarding
MM819
Risk Engineering Science (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 subject aims to extend the MM810 introductory work in
practical applications as indicated below.
Risk control models applied to fire phenomena, human
element programs.
Physical protection against natural disasters, fire, flood,
windstorm, earthquake.
Design of automated suppression systems for fire control.
Electrical equipment characteristics. Explosion initiation,
effects, control design criteria.
References
Factory Mutual Engineering Corporation. Criteria for Maximum
Foreseeable Loss Fire Walls and Space Separation Data Sheet 1-22.
1985
Kletz, f. An Engineers View of Human Emt Rugby, England: I Chem
E, 1985
National Fire Protection Association. Fire Pmtection Handbook. 16th
ed, Quincy, Mass.: National Fire Protection Association, 1986
MM820 Risk Engineering Science (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 extend the MM810 introductory work in
practical applications as listed below.
Material fundamentals, metals, non-metals, applications,
selection criteria.
Corrosion, mechanism, types prevention and protection
strategies. Failure mechanisms, fracture, owrload, fatigue,
fractography, cleavage, striation, environmentally assisted
cracking, stress corrosion, hydrogen embrittlement, corrosion
fatigue, design strategies to minimise failure.
Tribology, friction, wear, lubrication. Surface engineering,
surface variation, surface coatings.
References
Sarkar, A.D. War of Metals Oxford: krgarnon Press, 1976
Sarkar, A.D. Friction & Wear. London: Academic Press, 1980
Stmart, D. and 8. and Tulloch, D.S. Principles of Corrosion &
Pmtection. London: Macmillan, 1968
MM821 Risk Management Practices (Health and
Safety)
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 understanding of the
practical applications of management functions arising from
risks associated with health and safety requirements and the
prevention of loss to organisations.
Sources of information: risk and control information
Organisational design of effective implementation and
continuation of H&S programs: roles, responsibilities,
communication processes, program audits.
Implementation and evaluation of control measures for
buildings, machinery and equipment.
Rehabilitation and claims management.
Risk assessment for public and product risk: methods,
criteria, and program elements, incident reporting systems,
design and disposal screening; incidental reporting systems,
design and disposal screening.
Public health and safety program design and
implementation.
Contingency and emergency planning; damage control
strategies.
References
Derning, W.E. Quality, Produdivity & Competitive Ibsition. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press. 1982
Math-, J. Health and Safety at Ubrk. 2nd ed, Sydney. 1993
Quinlan, M. and Bohle, R.P Managing Occupational Safety in
Australia. South Melbourne: Macrnillan, 1991
MM822 Risk Management Practices (Plant and
Property)
No. of houn 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 understanding of the
practical applications of management functions arising from
risks associated with the prevention of loss to property and
production within an organisation.