What it is about
In this module you will learn principles and instruments for ensuring operational safety management in aviation, medicine and nuclear engineering. You will learn regulatory foundations, methods for data collection and analysis, as well as approaches to promote safety culture and communication, and you will be able to create a data-based concept for monitoring and improving operating safety at the end.
What you will be able to do
- Name essential regulatory provisions for safe operation
- Understand limits and weaknesses of human factors in operation
- Classify processes and procedures for quality assurance
- Assess the impact of a lived safety culture
- Analyze risk communication and risk management
- Develop a data-based concept for safety monitoring and improvement
What the module consists of
- LecturesSeminar-style teaching with a high share of guest lecturers to convey subject knowledge and case examples
- ExercisesPractical data analysis and design of safety models with MATLAB
Teaching method
- Seminar with guest lecturesEnables insights from practice and discussion of real case studies
- Collaborative data analysis in MATLABFor interactive application of methods for accident analysis and model building
- Discussion of case studiesTo link theoretical concepts with concrete scenarios