CHEM ENG 7111 - Safety and Risk in Materials Engineering

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2021

This course provides a fundamental understanding of the typical sources of risk in a process plant by hazard identification and examination of case studies; assess the severity of the consequences of incidents; undertake a Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP); explain the legal framework controlling process plant safety in industrialised countries; and demonstrate how the root cause of incidents can be investigated and analysed and the various human and technical aspects of such causes.

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