Admission requirements
This course is part of the minor Public Risk and Disaster. The course is taught at TU Delft by a lecturer from TU Delft. The course can only be taken within the framework of participation in the minor PRD. This minor is a consistent package of courses designed to help you build your knowledge in a logical and connected way. It is not possible to follow single courses.
Description
This course will discuss risk in a broad sense. Based on lectures and accounts of major accidents, a discussion is initiated on a topic related to engineering risk management in organisations. The students are invited to think together with the lecturer on risk issues. Major accidents and cause-effect mechanisms will be explained through short videos and longer documentaries on risk issues. The students will be made familiar with several accidents that had a significant contribution to the field of safety science.
Risk is conceptualized as a topic of uncertainty and possible loss from different perspectives (safety, security). Topics are further elaborated and theories/models/metaphors are taught by means of interactive discussions. The effects of different justice concepts (restorative versus retributive) on risk reduction and safety reporting are introduced.
Course objectives
After this course, you will be able to:
1. Understand risk in all its facets, to discuss about the concept and also to apply the knowledge and risk reduction by scientific principles
2. Process operational risk knowledge (models, attitudes, concepts, etc.) into understandable and practical info and sound reasoning
3. Link risk with safety (and security) issues and be able to reflect and debate on a variety of topics and risk reduction measures and organizational responsibilities
4. Understand and explain the role of learning from accidents
5. Understand and explain the role of managing safe human performance
6. Understand and explain the difference between retributive and restorative justice in relation to learning from accidents
7. Acquire academic knowledge and skills in order to analyse decisions made by risk managers from an organizational perspective
Timetable
The course schedule can be found at the TU Delft timetable. You can find the course schedule via ‘add timetable’ after logging in with your TU Delft credentials. Engineering risk management in organisations has course code TBM0822TU.
Mode of instruction
Lectures with class discussions
Plenary exercises in relation to the theoretical knowledge acquired
Documentaries will be screened and their relation to organizational risk management will be discussed in class
Attendance to all contact moments is mandatory.
Total study load: 140 hours
Lectures: 20 hours
Self-study: 120 hours
Assessment method
An individual, on-campus exam counts for 100% of the total grade (summative assessment). The exam is closed-book. The exam is digital and will be administered via the program ANS. The exam will consist of several open-ended questions and/or multiple choice questions which need to be elaborated in a restricted time period. A resit of the exam takes place in block 3. In order to pass the course, the grade on the exam has to be at least 6.0 out of 10.
For all courses of the minor PRD, final grades are rounded off to the nearest half point, except between 5 and 6. For grades between 5.0 and 6.0, a 5.5 and higher will be rounded up to a 6.0, and grades below 5.5 will be rounded down to 5.0. No final grades between 5.0 and 6.0 will be given.
If the final score is a passing grade, students are not allowed to the retake to obtain a higher grade, unless given explicit permission by the Board of Examiners of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (Leiden University).
This course is part of the minor Public Risk and Disaster. This minor needs to be completed in one academic year. It is not possible to retake courses that you have not passed during the following academic year. If you think an exception to this rule applies to you, please contact the Board of Examiners of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (Leiden University).
No matter what academic institution a student comes from, the minor Public Risk and Disaster falls under the course and examinations regulation of the bachelor Security Studies of Leiden University. These course rules are further expanded on in the rules and regulations of the Board of Examiners of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (Leiden University). This Board of Examiners is also the relevant body for disputes.
Upon request, students have the right to inspect their assessed work for a period of 20 working days after the announcement of the results of the exam. During the inspection of the assessed work, it is not permitted to copy the underlying examination questions. If a student wishes to inspect the results, the student needs to contact the module manager via e-mail to make an appointment within the period of 20 working days after the announcement of the results. This appointment cannot take place online.
Reading list
The reading list will be made available via Brightspace.
For all six courses from the minor PRD – so both the courses offered by Leiden University as by TU Delft – the Brightspace platform from Leiden University will be used. So all study materials for this course can be found on the Brightspace platform from Leiden University.
Registration
To be announced by OSC staff.
Contact
Dr. A. Adriaensen
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
E-mail: A.Adriaensen@tudelft.nl
Remarks
All lectures and communication for this course will be in English.
Lectures for this course take place at TU Delft (building 31 TU Delft, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft).
Course descriptions are synchronised between the study guides of Leiden University and TU Delft. However, this may take some time. For the latest description of this course, please check the corresponding page in the TU Delft study guide. Engineering risk management in organisations has course code TBM0822TU.
Please be aware that the minor PRD needs to be completed in one academic year. It is not possible to retake courses that you have not passed during the following academic year. If you think an exception to this rule applies to you, please contact the board of examiners of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs.