Goals

The course aims to provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of natural and technological hazards. Students will learn to identify different types of risks and design effective management strategies to prevent or mitigate them. The course will cover an exhaustive analysis of the main technological courses, with a focus on industrial risks. Among the natural risks, meteorological and flood risks will be taken as an example throughout the course. Prevention, forecasting and protection measures will be identified. Economic / regulatory methods to mitigate risk will also be discussed.

Programme

  1. Definition of risk The types of hazard, their distribution in the world, their consequences - the notions of frequency, gravity and intensity

  2. Meteorological and hydrological risks - phenomenology Storms, floods, floods

  3. Prevention, prediction and protection Technical, legal and economic means for an acceptable natural risk for populations

  4. Putting it into practice – Design office with application of the concepts seen in the course on a river in metropolitan France

  5. History of industrial risk management

  6. Environmental risk analysis – Impact study

  7. Phenomenology of industrial accidents

  8. Technological risk analysis on industrial installations and application to an industrial establishment

Study
8h
 
Course
22h
 

Responsibles

  • Pietro SALIZZONI
  • Richard PERKINS

Language

French / English

Keywords

Risk, environment, urbanization, bad weather, storms, floods, prevention, forecasting, protection, technological, industrial, risk analysis, GIS, fire, explosion, pollution, toxicity