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Introduction To Safety Engineering

This document provides an introduction to a course on Fundamental Safety Engineering and Risk Management Concepts taught by Dr. Henry Tan. It outlines Dr. Tan's background and research interests. It then previews the course materials and assessments, including assignments, exams, and a discussion board. Finally, it gives examples of past accidents in various energy sectors to illustrate risks and hazards, and how accidents have influenced safety regulations.

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Introduction To Safety Engineering

This document provides an introduction to a course on Fundamental Safety Engineering and Risk Management Concepts taught by Dr. Henry Tan. It outlines Dr. Tan's background and research interests. It then previews the course materials and assessments, including assignments, exams, and a discussion board. Finally, it gives examples of past accidents in various energy sectors to illustrate risks and hazards, and how accidents have influenced safety regulations.

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Fundamental Safety Engineering and Risk Management Concepts (2017)

Lecture 1A
Introduction to safety engineering
Reading: note1 – introduction

Dr. Henry Tan, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen


h.tan@abdn.ac.uk
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About the Course Co-coordinator
Henry Tan
PhD in Engineering, Tsinghua University, China
Postdoc, Brown University, USA

Research Assistant Professor, University of Utah, USA


Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions

Research Scientist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA


Center for Simulation of Advanced Rocket

Lecturer, University of Manchester


Extreme Loading and Design

Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen


• Fundamental Safety Engineering and Risk Management Concepts
• Blast and Fire Resistant Structures
• Applied Risk Analysis and Management
Safety and Reliability MSc Individual Projects
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Subsea Integrity Research Team, PhD supervision
MyAberdeen

• Course materials
• Lectures
• Notes
• Tutorials

• Discussion board
• Lecture related
• Tutorial related
• Coursework related
• Exam related

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Assessment

• Continuous assessment (weight 20%)


Assignment will be released on 10/10/2017

• Final exam (weight 80%)

Past exam papers

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Risk and reliability modelling of complex systems

• Irrespective of what MSc you are taking, you will be working with complex
systems which need to be safe, reliable and economic

• Risk and Reliability Theory is the “glue” which pulls multiple disciplines
together

• Uncertainty

• Tools like Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Reliability
Block Diagram (RBD), Bow-tie Analysis
Accidents in energy sector

Number of fatalities in severe (≥ 5 fatalities) accidents that occurred in


natural disasters and man-made accidents in the period 1969 to 2000.
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Human Cost of U.K.’s offshore oil and gas industry

from Offshore Injury, Ill Health and Incident Statistics 7


2005/2006, UK Health and Safety Executive, 2007
Wind turbine related accidents in the UK

from Caithness Windfarm Information Forum

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Deaths per TWh by energy source

Coal 161

Oil 24

Peat 12

Biofuel/Biomass 12

Natural Gas 4

Hydro 1.4

Nuclear 0.04

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180


Death per TWh

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Aberfan Disaster
Movie
Description

• 21 October 1966
• 144 deaths including 116 school children
• 20 houses and most of the school destroyed
• Led to major changes in the coal industry in the management
of safety, giving responsibility to civil engineers for waste tips
• Major influence on the 1972 Robens Report and on the
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (movie).

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Pipe Alpha
Movie
Description

• 6 July 1988
• 167 killed
• two billion pounds in direct losses for the company involved
(Occidental)
• introduction of the Offshore Installations (Safety Case)
Regulations 1992, subsequently revised in 2005
• transfer of responsibilities for offshore activities from the UK
Department of Energy to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

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