Vulnerability Analysis is a prerequisite to a risk assessment. Coupled with return on prevention analysis it could serve as an essential step in risk management and future scenarios development, giving managers and risk specialists a powerful decision assisting tool. This course aims to build up competences regarding vulnerability analysis in industry based on the current best practice in EU, as well as to provide basic knowledge regarding Return on Prevention Vulnerability analysis. Return on Prevention assessment gives the efficiency of the money and resources invested. The course presents the latest methodologies and instruments and also the latest stage of art.

Main topics of the course include:

• Introductory part: Definitions used in the course. Goal and objectives of the course
• Vulnerability discovery, Models, Consequences: Where vulnerabilities appear, how are generated and found. Intentional and unintentional vulnerabilities. Hazard vulnerability analysis.
• Vulnerability Analysis and mapping: Conflict vulnerability analysis; Vulnerability Analysis of Safety Systems
• Vulnerability metrics and KPI: What should be measured and why. What are KPI regarding vulnerability expressing.
• Vulnerability management: Vulnerability life cycle management, best practices, management principles and tools.
• ROP-basis and need for: What is ROP and how could ROP help the management of the enterprise
• ROP methodology: Steps in order to collect data and to process ROP
• How to interpret ROP?: ROP interpretation in relationship with managerial data.
• 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.
• Project analysis and test: Here student would present their projects and would respond to the grill test.

Target participants

The course is designed to satisfy the needs of safety experts and practitioners, engineers and managers, especially risk managers. 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.

Benefits

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