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Overview
You’ll explore risk-assessment tools and the fundamentals of safety and risk management. You’ll gain an introduction to:
- risk assessment and classical reliability theory
- ALARP (as low as reasonably practicable) as a principle
- safety regulatory frameworks
- hazard identification, including brainstorming, checklists, safety performance indicators, incident and inspection reports, structured what-if technique (SWIFT), and safety audits
Careers
This Safety and Risk Management course at the University of Aberdeen is designed to help you develop your career in safety and reliability engineering and risk management. There’s a continuing high demand for people with specialist knowledge in these areas as a result of:
- new legal requirements to assess and control industrial risks to people and the environment
- the need to create high-integrity engineering systems in many industries.
The concepts you’ll learn on this course are applicable to any industry, not just oil and gas.
Programme Structure
You’ll cover the following:- Risk assessment techniques, including reliability block diagrams, event trees, fault trees, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)
- Major accident prevention policies (MAPP)
- Safety procedures and inherently safe design
- Reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM)
- Failure analysis and maintenance
- Bowtie diagrams, to analyse and demonstrate causal relationships in high-risk scenarios
- Layers of protection analysis (LOPA)
- Overview of safety standards and functional safety
- Case histories
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 3 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
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Credits
15 alternative credits
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Disciplines
General Engineering & Technology View 36 other Short Courses in General Engineering & Technology in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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TOEFL® IBT OR
90
PTE Academic 62
IELTS 6.5
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Other requirements
General requirements
This course has no formal entry requirements. You decide if it’s suitable for you.
The course is delivered at Masters level. At this level, for this course, you’d usually have at least:
- a 2:2 UK honours degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or Physical Sciences, and/or
- experience in safety management or risk assessment.
Familiarity with basic risk assessment techniques, such as event trees and fault trees, is beneficial.
As the course involves practical assignments in risk analysis and safety management, competence in using basic analytical tools and methods is advantageous.
Tuition Fees
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Applies to youNon-residents1395 GBP / full≈ 1395 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents1395 GBP / full≈ 1395 GBP / full
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