SAFETY ENGINEERING

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SAFETY ENGINEERING
Teaching
SAFETY ENGINEERING
Subject area
ING-IND/17
Reference degree course
ENGINEERING FOR SAFETY OF CRITICAL INDUSTRIAL AND CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURES
Course type
Master's Degree
Credits
9.0
Teaching hours
Frontal Hours: 81.0
Academic year
2024/2025
Year taught
2024/2025
Course year
1
Language
ENGLISH
Curriculum
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS
Reference professor for teaching
Elmo Giovanni
Location
Lecce

Teaching description

No prerequisites required

The course provides the tools and methodologies to acquire the basic skills of a safety engineer who must be able to carry out risk assessment in civil infrastructures and industrial plants

Provide the student with the knowledge to be able to:

- know and apply the engineering principles for risk assessment by referring to mandatory legislation.

- know the prevention and protection measures relating to the most well-known specific risks and with particular reference to fire risk assessment

- understand the technical-organizational problems and methodologies for the design and management of systems at risk of major accidents

Lectures, exercises and seminars

The exam consists of an in-depth study of a topic of the program

- Introduction to safety engineering: concepts, objectives, methods and fundamental legislation.

- Risk assessment methodologies and techniques. Introduction to the assessment of specific risks: chemical risk, physical risk, mechanical risk.

- Fire risk assessment: materials, technologies, ATEX environments, procedures according to the new Fire Prevention Code.

- The legislation for the design and management of systems at risk of major accidents (Direttive Seveso).

- Notes on Risk management systems ISO 31000 and HSE management systems ISO 45001 and OHSAS 18001 

Slides provided by the teacher

Semester
Second Semester (dal 03/03/2025 al 13/06/2025)

Exam type
Compulsory

Type of assessment
Oral - Final grade

Course timetable
https://easyroom.unisalento.it/Orario

Component by
SAFETY ENGINEERING (LM80)

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