Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students learn the most essential general properties of dynamic and complex safety
critical systems. The course specifies the problems and development challenges related to managing safety critical systems and deals with the central theoretical approaches to analyzing and developing them. During the course several accident cases are reviewed from the point of view of what they have taught us about safety critical organizations and how to investigate incidents in safety critical systems.
Credits: 5
Schedule: 04.03.2021 - 24.05.2021
Teacher in charge (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022): Osiris Valdez Banda
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Osiris Valdez Banda
Contact information for the course (valid 03.02.2021-21.12.2112):
Teaching
Periods: 2020-2021 Spring IV-V
Teacher-in-Charge: Osiris A.
Valdez Banda
without an Aalto ID: Teemu
Reiman (Lecturer)
CEFR level (applies in this implementation):
Language of instruction and studies (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022):
Teaching language: English
Languages of attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Human, technical and organizational factors, safety and accident models, new safety paradigms, leadership, safety management and safety culture. The course also illustrates the different approaches of managing safety as well as the different types of safety present in modern complex systems.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Assignments and lectures.
Workload
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Lectures 22 h, assignment 20 h, individual work 93 h
DETAILS
Study Material
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Glendon, A.I. & Clarke, S.G. (2016). Human safety and risk management. Third edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press.; Reiman, T. & Oedewald, P. (2008). Turvallisuuskriittiset organisaatiot Onnettomuudet, kulttuuri ja johtaminen. Helsinki: Edita; Leveson, N. (2011) Engineering a safer world. The MIT Press; Hollnagel, E., Paries, J., Woods, D., Wreathall, J. (2011) Resilience Engineering in Practice: A guide book. Ashgate.
Applies in this implementation:
Glendon, A.I. & Clarke, S.G. (2016).
Human safety and risk management. Third edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press.;
Reiman, T. & Oedewald, P. (2008). Turvallisuuskriittiset organisaatiot Onnettomuudet, kulttuuri ja
johtaminen. Helsinki: Edita; Leveson, N. (2011) Engineering a safer world. The MIT Press; Hollnagel, E., Paries, J., Woods, D., Wreathall, J.
(2011) Resilience Engineering in Practice: A guide book. Ashgate.
Substitutes for Courses
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Replaces the course TU-E3150
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Topics covered in the course:
Introduction and the basic concepts of safety management
Basic concepts: From human to organizational factors
Accident models and organizational accidents
o Traditional (Swiss cheese model, domino, HazOP, FTA, FMEA)
o Modern (AcciMap, FRAM, STAMP)
Accident cases
Safety leadership and organizational learning
Safety culture
The basic principles of safety management
Tools of safety management I
Future challenges of safety management
Safety Engineering
o System Safety Engineering
o Resilience EngineeringApplies in this implementation:
This year (2021) the course is given fully online
Details on the schedule
Applies in this implementation:
Thursdays from 4.3.2021 - 24.5.2021 at 16:15-18:00