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.
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 organizations. 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 completion of the course ‘Engineering Risk Management in Organizations’ students will be able to:
LO1: explain the differences and similarities between managing safety and security risks.
LO2: assess various risk reduction measures and organizational responsibilities that result from learning from previous accidents.
LO3: apply acquired risk knowledge (such as acquired risk reduction elements, risk methods, risk attitudes, and concepts) to mitigate safety/security issues.
LO4: debate presented examples or theoretical approaches to manage safe human performance and organizational responsibilities to obtain a safer workplace.
LO5: appraise the differences between retributive and restorative justice as different approaches for organizational risk management, both in theory and applied to practical examples.
Timetable
The course schedule can be found at the TU Delft timetable:https://mytimetable.tudelft.nl/schedule. You can find the course schedule via ‘add timetable’ after logging in with your TU Delft credentials. Engineering Risk Management in Organizations 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.
’Oceangate Titan Case’ prepared study material, which will be made available on Brightspace (online articles and video links);
Rausand and Haugen (2020) Risk Assessment: Theory, Methods, and Applications
Available as e-Book (after login with your university credentials). Selected chapters available via: eBook: https://app-knovel-com.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/web/view/khtml/show.v/rcid:kpRATMAE01/cid:kt0137POH1/viewerType:khtml/root_slug:risk-assessment-theory/url_slug:words-risk-analysis?&b-toc-cid=kpRATMAE01&b-toc-root-slug=risk-as sessment-theory&b-toc-title=Risk Assessment - Theory, Methods, and Applications %282nd Edition%29&b-toc-url-slug=introduction&kpromoter=marc&view=collapsed&zoom=1&page=1Meyer, T., & Reniers, G. (2022). Engineering Risk Management. De Gruyter : Chapter 5 available via : eBook: https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/lib/delft/reader.action?docID=4533886;
Gawande, A. (2010). The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Henry Holt and Company. Chapter 2;
Dekker, S. (2006). The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error. Ashgate Chapter 2 available via : eBook: https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/lib/delft/detail.action?docID=1825729;
Lund University (2007) Was it technical failure or human error? : YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygx2AI2RtkI;
Dekker, S. W. A., & Breakey, H. (2016). ‘Just culture:’ Improving safety by achieving substantive, procedural and restorative justice. Safety Science, 85, 187–193. Publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2016.01.018.
Registration
To be announced by OSC staff.
Contact
Dr. Arie Adriaensen
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
E-mail: a.adriaensen@tudelft.nl
Room: B1.190 (building 31 TU Delft, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft)