Operationelle Sicherheit

Operational Safety (not to be confused with Operational Flight Safety, which is a summer term module)

This brand-new lecture create for the small interdisciplinary study programme “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.

Keynote Speakers

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Key Facts

Contact	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Florian Holzapfel Carsten Schmidt-Moll Florian Schwaiger, 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