Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

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Assessing risk in engineering, work and life provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 10 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • Risk is something that must be taken into account at all times when practising as an engineer. We accept risk as part of everyday life so there is a need to balance the risks of an activity against...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Risk and why it is important
    • 1 Risk and why it is important
    • 1.1 Engineers and risk
    • 1.2 Evaluating risk
    • 1.3 Assessing risk
    • Example 1 Assessing risk
    • 2 Accidents
    • 2 Accidents
    • 2.1 Accident triangle
    • Deepwater Horizon
    • 2.2 Human error
    • 2.3 Analysing ‘incidents’
    • The Buncefield oil storage depot
    • 2.4 After the accident
    • 2.5 Risk perception
    • ALARP
    • Communicating risk
    • Example 2 Assessing the acceptability of risk
    • 3 Risk measurement and risk management
    • 3 Risk measurement and risk management
    • 3.1 Expressing probability
    • Example 3 Reading a logarithmic scale
    • 3.2 Calculating probability
    • Example 4 Probability of scoring an even number
    • Combining probabilities
    • Example 5 Combining two independent probabilities
    • Probability of failure
    • Series and parallel
    • Example 6 Calculating the probability of at least one event occurring
    • 3.3 Probability in everyday life
    • 3.4 Risk management
    • Example 7 Identifying stakeholders
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Acknowledgements