Risk Management: Operational Safety (not to be confused with Operational Flight Safety, which is a summer term module)
This lecture create for the small interdisciplinary study program “Risk & Safety” is intended as a forum for discussion with safety experts from the industry. Students will learn best practice solutions to known safety problems and adapt them in a study report to a new topic.
The lectures are open to other study programmes as well and a guest audience is also welcome! Check out the upcoming keynote speakers from the list below. Lectures are in room MW3618 at the FSD chair.
Keynote Speakers
Carsten Schmidt-Moll
Lufthansa Cpt. A350 and Research assistant at the Institute of Flight System Dynamics
📅 14.10.2026, 13:00 – 14:30 Introduction and Challenges of risk management
📅 03.02.2027, 13:00 – 14:30 Final Lecture and preparation for the final exam
Julian Oehling
Safety Officer at Lufthansa and Senior FO A350
📅 21.10.2026, 13:00 – 14:30 Fundamentals of Accident Causation
📅 11.11.2026, 13:00 – 14:30 The risk matrix and other tools
Prof. Dr. med. Rainer Haseneder
TUM, Klinikum r. d. Isar and TUM Medical Education Center
📅 13.01.2027, 13:00 – 14:30 Operational Safety in Hospitals Part 1
📅 20.01.2027, 13:00 – 14:30 Operational Safety in Hospitals Part 2
Dr.-Ing. Max Butter
Safety department of Lufthansa, Specialized on Flight Data Monitoring and Lufthansa Cpt. A320
📅 13.11.2024, 13:00 – Flight Data Monitoring
Manfred Müller
Former Head of Lufthansa Flight Safety Department and retired Cpt. A330/A340/A350
📅 28.10.2026, 13:00 – 14:30 Operational Safety in Aviation
📅 09.12.2026, 13:00 – 14:30 Mathematics and Statistics in Aviation
Dr.-Ing. Lukas Steinert
Lead Architect and RAMS Manager at Knorr Bremse, Former Functional Safety Manager
📅 04.11.2026, 13:00 – 14:30 Safety related product development
Dr.-Ing. Tim Mehling
Flight Test Manager & Flight Test Engineer for Airbus Helicopters
📅 02.12.2026, 13:00 – 14:30 Safety Management in Flight Test Operation
Dr.-Ing. Ludwig Drees
BMW Group
📅 16.12.2026, 13:00 – 14:30 Ensuring Safety by Design and Statistical Validation
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Haslbeck
Ergonom for Yingfeng Group
📅 27.01.2027, 13:00 – 14:30 Evaluation of safety with simulator studies
Key Facts
| Contact | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Florian Holzapfel Carsten Schmidt-Moll Shruti Animesh, M.Sc. |
| Language of Instruction | English |
| Language of Materials | English |
| Type / ECTS | Lecture and Exercise / 5 (Master Module) |
| Semester | Winter Term |
| Time and Place | Lecture: Wednesdays, 13:00-14:30, MW3618 Exercise: Wednesdays, 14:45-15:30, MW3618 |
| Related Links | TUM-Online: Lecture Overview PDF of Lecture Dates |
Details
| Prerequisites | none |
| Content | 1. Regulatory Framework: HROs, Certification, Audits 2. Recap of Human Factors 3. Processes, Procedures, Quality Assurance 4. Data Acquisition, Evidence Generation 5. Data Analysis, Safety Monitoring 6. Safety Management 7. Safety Culture 8. Risk Communication and Awareness 9. Guest Lectures on Case Studies in Aviation, Medical, Nuclear |
| Educational Objectives | – Recall the important legislative regulations for safe operations, – Understand limitations and weaknesses of the human component in the concept of operations, – Understand appropriate processes and procedures for quality assurance, – Evaluate the impact of an actively practiced safety culture, – Analyze an effective form of risk communication and management, and – Develop a data-based approach to monitoring and improving safety in operations. |
| Teaching Methods / Materials | The module is divided into lecture and tutorial. The lecture is held as a seminar-style class with a high proportion of guest lecturers from the fields covered. In the exercise MATLAB is used to interactively analyze accident data and to design safety models. |
| Exam | – project report for a safety concept on a new topic – short presentation of the report |
| Reference Literature | – Müller, Wittmer, Drax, “Aviation Risk and Safety Management,” Springer, 2014 – Gaussmann, Henninger, Koppenberg, “Patientensicherheitsmanagement”, De Gruyter, 2021 – Petrangeli, “Nuclear Safety,” Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006 |