Beheer van risico's en veiligheid

The aim of the minor Companies and Value-Sensitive Innovation is to teach students a comprehensive and practical understanding of the innovation process and its ethical dimensions. Management of risk and safety is one of the crucial aspects in order to create ethically sound and economically viable innovations. In this course, you will learn risk management concepts, and you will learn to think in terms of safety- and security-related incident scenarios: what are the causes of unwanted events with regard to safety and security of innovations? And what are possible unwanted consequences? Prevention of these unwanted events, as well as recovery and mitigation if an unwanted event does occur, takes up a central role in the course.

In the course we will look into safety and security risks at different phases of an innovation, being the development phase, the production phase, and the deployment phase (when the innovation is introduced into society). You will learn to identify these risks, analyse them, and formulate recommendations to manage safety and security risks throughout all phases of the innovation process.

When looking into risks emerging from technologies, the observable risks are important to take into account, as well as the perceived risks (opinions and perceptions of different stakeholders). You will learn to analyse the possible societal impact of safety and security risks emerging from innovations, as well as the relations and tensions between safety and security risks and other values such as privacy, transparency, and inclusion.

In the course, we will look into the roles and responsibilities of relevant stakeholders - such as designers and users of innovations - regarding managing safety and security risks.

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 ANS platform. 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.

Upon request, students have the right to inspect their assessed work during 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.