Course - Risk Analysis - TPK5160
Risk Analysis
About
About the course
Course content
Definition and discussion of basic concepts of risk analysis. Risk metrics. Risk acceptance criteria. Qualitative and quantitative methods for risk analysis, like preliminary hazard analysis, HAZOP, fault tree analysis, and event tree analysis. Consequence analysis. Analysis of human errors and organizational factors. Barrier analysis. Data sources and uncertainties. Rules, standards, and guidelines. Risk reduction and cost/benefit analysis. Use risk analyses within different industries and applications.
Learning outcome
Knowledge: Students shall have wide knowledge of what a risk analysis is, the steps in the process of performing a risk analysis and common methods used.
Skills: Students shall be able to perform risk analysis of various types of problems and interpret and present the results from the analysis as input to a decision process.
General competence: Students shall have an understanding of issues related to use of risk acceptance criteria and how risk analysis can be used and misused.
Learning methods and activities
Lectures, project work and exercises. A mandatory project shall be carried out as group work, and will count 40% in the evaluation. The lectures and exercises are in English when students who do not speak Norwegian take the course. If the teaching is given in English the Examination papers will be given in English only. Students are free to choose Norwegian or English for written assessments.
Compulsory assignments
- Project work
Further on evaluation
Portfolio assessment is the basis for the grade in the course. The portfolio includes a Group exercise work counting 40 % and a written exam counting 60 %. The results for the parts are given in %-scores, while the entire portfolio is assigned a letter grade according to the grading scale using percentage points.
Mandatory work (Project work) from previous semester can be accepted by the Department by re-take of an examination if there haven't been any significant changes later.
By a re-take of an examination all assessments during the course, that counts in the final grade, have to be re-taken.
If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.
Recommended previous knowledge
Basic course in probability theory.
Course materials
M Rausand: Risk Assessment: Theory, Methods and Applications, Wiley 2011.
Center for Chemical Process Safety: Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis, Second Edition, Wiley 2010.
Subject areas
- Fire Technology
- Working Environment and Safety in Heavy Industry
- Operations Management and Industrial Safety
- Energy and Process Engineering
- Safety, Reliability and Maintenance
- Marine Operation and Maintenance Engineering
- Project Quality Management
- Health, Safety and Environment
- Machine Design - Safety Technology
- Operation technology
- Production and Quality Engineering
- Production Engineering/Safety in Operation
- Production Engineering - Risk Analysis
- Work Environment and Safety
- Marine System Design
- Water Engineering in Fish Farming
- Risk Analysis
- Marine Topics
- Engineering Subjects
Contact information
Course coordinator
Lecturers
Department with academic responsibility
Examination
Examination
Ordinary examination - Spring 2021
Arbeider
Home exam
Submission 2021-06-09 Time Release 09:00
Submission 13:00 Duration 4 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment