Aims

General aims: To ensure that students gain more and better insight in state-of-the-art research of some topics in engineering/operational risk management, being very important for risk management in the near future.

The graduate of the Master in Environment, Health and Safety Management

2. Is able to critically assess the impact of an environmental, well-being and sustainability policy and to evaluate it.

2e The student is able to link prevention measures to monetary valuation and, by doing so, to insert economic parameters in the safety policy.

2f The student is able to reflect critically on and debate about different economic approaches that can feed the policy on safety investments.

5. Is able to reflect critically on and make use of sustainable alternatives as an innovative answer to social challenges.

5d The student is able to reflect critically on the level of ambition and the options of policy to optimize the safety policy in an organisation.

5e The student is able to reflect critically on the completeness and the innovative character of a safety policy.

6. Is able to autonomously select sources of information, data and research methods in a scientifically underpinned way.

6b The student is able to write a well-founded referee report for a scientific article.

6e The student is able, in group, to draw up and justify a specific economic approach for the optimization of safety investments, based on primary and secondary sources of information and data.

Previous knowledge

The course is sequential to Engineering Risk Management (HBM25C) (3rd Bachelor). It is recommended that the ERM course has been successfully completed before commencing with this course.

Is included in these courses of study

• Master in het milieu- en preventiemanagement (Brussel) 60 ects.
• Courses for Exchange Students Faculty of Economics and Business (Brussels)