Design of Safety and Security Systems

The recent industrialization has boosted the economic and technological development, but simultaneously there has been an increase in the number of accidents and their damage potential. Such accidents many times offset the total operation and force industry to close their operations. Therefore, engineers need to know about the hazard, safety, and operability problems in different industries at various stages, and the precautionary measures need to be taken to overcome these problems.

This course aims to develop expertise and skills in safety design principles and failure probability and reliability analysis of engineered systems. This helps to prepare our future safety engineers and regulators to deeply understand the complex and multiple-disciplinary nature of system safety and security problems and anticipate the dynamics of socio-technical systems.

The course consists of 3 blocks: (A) Introduction to safety and security, safety by design concepts, safety design principles, basics of risk assessment and risk management methods, (B) Design for Reliability, (C) Risk-based approach to safety barriers design, operation, and management.

In block A, students will get familiar with safety and security, its similarity and difference in engineering context. The basic principles, theories, and concepts in safety and security sciences will be introduced.

In block B, reliability models, FMECA, human factors in reliable design, design for extreme environments, etc. will be discussed.

In block C, risk-based approach, safety and security barriers management approaches will be discussed through real-world case studies. The students will be required to conduct a group project on design of a safety and security management system for a specific engineered system.