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Qualitative Risk Modelling

Unit code: HES6742

Credit points12.5 Credit Points
Duration

1 Semester
Contact hoursEquivalent to 36 hrs contact time or 150 hrs total study time
CampusOff-Campus
Prerequisites
 
Nil
Corequisites
 
Nil

Aims and objectives

The aim of this unit is to develop in students an understanding of the origins, applications and limitations of contemporary methods for understanding and analysing risk and hazard.

Teaching methods

Distance Education via Blackboard and email

Assessment

Three Individual Assignments (worth 100%)

Generic skills outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will:
  • Be aware of the range of contemporary techniques used to understand risk and hazard, other than the quantitative methods of quantified risk analysis (QRA)
  • Understand the applications and limitations of these methods
  • Apply this knowledge in a real-world environment

Content

Topics include: logic diagrams (their form and use), “bow-tie” diagrams, systematic “cause” analysis, Management oversight and risk tree (MORT), the choice and use of risk factors, HAZOP.

Reading materials

Various web-based sources