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 course 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
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Delivered
Campus Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Disciplines
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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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Tuition Fees
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Applies to youCitizens or residents1395 GBP / full≈ 1395 GBP / full
Living costs
Aberdeen
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.