Safety Engineering in Aviation

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Lecturer:

Andrej Lališ

Tutor:

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:

no prerequisites required

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Safety engineering history

2. Safety models and methods

3. Safety-II and Safety-III

4. Resilience

5. Safety management

6. Design and manufacture of safe systems

7. Safety oversight

8. Accident and incident investigation

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Safety models and methods - technical, human factors, organizational

2. Systems Theoretic Accident Modeling and Processes (STAMP)

3. Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM)

4. Safety cases, real-scale applications

Study Objective:

1. Understand the issue of safety

2. Learn to assess new systems for safety

3. Acquire principles of safety management

4. Learn to explain aviation accidents and incident causes

5. Bridge theoretical knowledge about safety with practical problems of air transport

Study materials:

Leveson, N. Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2012.

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:

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Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: