Risk Management and Safety Assessment Systems

Module code: ME5MM7 · Semester: Semester 1

Themes: Theme 1: Energy/Fluids; Theme 3: Mechanical/Manufacturing; Theme 4: Innovation in Product Design

Resources

• Module descriptor (TCD)

Questions by Year

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• 2025/26
• 2024/25
• 2023/24
• 2022/23
• 2021/22
• 2019/20
• 2018/19
• 2017/18
• 2016/17
• 2015/16
• 2014/15

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Topics

• Project risk in large infrastructure and capital projects LO1–2
• Human and organisational factors in risk perception LO2
• Quantifying project risk; case studies LO2
• Occupational safety law and standards LO4
• System safety engineering and hazard identification LO3
• HAZID, HAZOP, fault and event trees, bow ties LO5

Learning outcomes

1. Understand the role of risk in decisions on major projects
2. Understand risk in project planning and delivery
3. Understand system safety engineering and its history
4. Know the legislation requiring risk assessment and safety management
5. Use risk assessment methods: HAZID, HAZOP, fault trees, event trees, bow ties

Summarised from the module descriptor, checked November 2026.