Safety Engineering in Aviation

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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.

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• PL nav.prez.22/23 (pro program PL) (compulsory course)
• PL nav.kombi 22/23 (pro program PL) (compulsory course)
• PL nav.prez.23/24 (pro program PL) (compulsory course)
• PL nav.kombi 23/24 (pro program PL) (compulsory course)