The aim of the course is the introduction to transportation risk analysis. The risk assessment of road, rail and pipeline  transportation of hazardous substances will be illustrated. The approaches to frequency calculation, consequence assessment, and risk assessment will be discussed. Case studies will be carried out to illustrate the calculation and the use of individual, societal and other advanced risk indexes.

Main topics of the course include:

• Hazards in the land transportation of hazardous substances (Relevant past accidents in road, rail and pipeline transportation of hazardous substances; Characterization of risk sources; Applicable standards and legislation)
• Basic elements for risk calculation: scenario selection, frequency and consequence assessment (Scenario selection from hazard identification; Frequency calculation: accident statistics, failure data; Consequence assessment: use of models for consequence assessment)
• Risk for the environment and tunnel fires (Scenarios causing environmental damage: Modeling tools, etc; Tunnel fires: Analysis, Modeling tools)
• Risk calculation (Representation of linear risk sources;    Calculation of damage and risk; Examples of risk calculation)
• Use of risk results (Examples of risk-based decision making; Direct calculation of risk for different routes; CBA of passive protections; Routing)

Target participants

The contents of the course is structured to satisfy the needs of

• Professionals dealing with risk issues on management and operational level
• Individuals with general technical background which require a specific training in industrial safety and risk assessment
• Students of mater courses in Process engineering, Industrial engineering, Risk engineering or similar courses

Benefits

At the end of the course students are expected to:

The goal of the course is to give an introduction to transportation risk assessment. The course, building on basic knowledge of risk and consequence analysis concepts will introduce the participants to the numerical calculation of risk indexes and their use in the context of assessment of safety of land transportation of hazardous goods and hazardous substances. The participants will acquire the capability of undertaking a transportation risk assessment study and of interpreting the results of such studies.

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