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Objectives
The course will provide the students with sufficient knowledge and skills that they should be able to do a vulnerability analysis and on its results a return on prevention analysis, showing the weak points (where the facility is vulnerable) and giving the spots where return on prevention could be maximized.
At the end of the course students are expected to:
- have the necessary competences in order to perform vulnerability analysis at their enterprises
- understand basics of Return on Prevention (RoP) concepts and its usage in risk management
- form their competences in RoP assessment.
Target Attendees / Participants
The course is dedicated to:
- professionals (engineers, managers, inspectors, legislators, …) who wish to deepen their knowledge in the field of risk based inspection
- other professionals dealing with risk and safety in industry
- individuals with no previous experience in the field of risk based inspection, but willing to extend their knowledge and take up new roles in this field within their companies
- university students of Steinbeis European Master Program in Risk Engineering and Management, and similar programs.
Course Content by Units
The course includes following units:
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Unit
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Title & contents in brief
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1.
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Introductory part
Definitions used in the course. Goal and objectives of the course
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2.
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Vulnerability discovery, Models, Consequences
Where vulnerabilities appear, how are generated and found. Intentional and unintentional vulnerabilities. Hazard vulnerability analysis.
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3.
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Vulnerability Analysis and mapping
Conflict vulnerability analysis; Vulnerability Analysis of Safety Systems
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Vulnerability metrics and KPI
What should be measured and why. What are KPI regarding vulnerability expressing.
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Vulnerability management
Vulnerability life cycle management, best practices, management principles and tools.
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6.
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ROP-basis and need for
What is ROP and how could ROP help the management of the enterprise
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ROP methodology
Steps in order to collect data and to process ROP
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8.
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How to interpret ROP?
ROP interpretation in relationship with managerial data.
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ROP implementation in risk management and safety culture
Best practice procedures in order to use currently ROP as a useful instrument for the management and also for the employees.
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10.
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Project analysis and test
Here student would present their projects and would respond to the grill test.
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Teaching Methods
Teaching methods could depend, according to resources and possibilities:
- on the basis of the existing written material there would be a short presentation of the unit content completed with examples and case studies. At the end of each unit there would be a time dedicated to the buildup of the project – using the competences included in the presented unit, so that the students would be ready with the project through this interactive work-up and a reasonable individual effort;
- the course would finalize with a practice application- as a project done by the student referring on his own workplace.
Literature
Textbook and Power Point slides. The textbook would contain at the end references to relevant literature.
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