Safety Engineering in Aviation

Course guarantor:

Lecturer:

Kateřina Grötschelová, Natalia Guskova, Andrej Lališ

Tutor:

Kateřina Grötschelová, Natalia Guskova, Andrej Lališ

Supervisor:

Department of Air Transport

Synopsis:

The course is focused on understanding the issue of safety, learning how to assess new systems in terms of safety and acquiring principles of safety management. Students will learn explaining accidents and incident causes and bridge their theoretical knowledge with practical problems of air transport.

Requirements:

none

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Safety engineering history

2. Safety models and methods

3. Safety-II and Safety-III

4. Resilience

5. Safety management system

6. Design and manufacture of safe systems

7. Management of change

8. Safety oversight

9. Accident and incident investigation

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

1. Understand the issue of safety

2. Learn to assess new systems in terms of safety

3. Acquire principles of safety management

4. Learn to explain aviation accidents and incident causes

5. Bridge theoretical knowledge with practical problems of air transport

Study materials:

Dekker, S. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'. Burlington: Ashgate. 2014. Hollnagel, E. Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management. Burlington: Ashgate, 2014.

Hollnagel, E. Safety-II in Practice: Developing the Resilience Potentials. Routledge, 2017.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu	roomHO:A-320 Lališ A. 11:30–13:00 (lecture parallel185) Horská 3 (stará budova) roomHO:B-101 Guskova N. 13:15–14:45 (parallel nr.185) Horská 3 (nová budova) roomHO:B-005 Lališ A. 11:30–13:00 (lecture parallel185) Horská 3 (nová budova)
Fri	roomHO:B-116 Lališ A. Guskova N. 09:45–11:15 (parallel nr.192) Horská 3 (nová budova) roomHO:B-116 Lališ A. Guskova N. 16:45–18:15 (parallel nr.192) Horská 3 (nová budova) roomHO:B-116 Lališ A. Guskova N. 09:45–11:15 (parallel nr.192) Horská 3 (nová budova) roomHO:B-116 Lališ A. Guskova N. 11:30–13:00 (parallel nr.192) Horská 3 (nová budova) roomHO:B-116 Lališ A. Guskova N. 15:00–16:30 (parallel nr.192) Horská 3 (nová budova) roomHO:B-116 Lališ A. Guskova N. 13:15–14:45 (parallel nr.192) Horská 3 (nová budova)

Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Master Full-Time PL from 2022/23 (compulsory course)
• Master Part-Time PL from 2022/23 (compulsory course)
• Master Full-Time PL from 2023/24 (compulsory course)
• Master Part-Time PL from 2023/24 (compulsory course)
• Master Full-Time PL from 2024/25 (compulsory course)
• Master Part-Time PL from 2024/25 (compulsory course)