1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

electrical systems.
Recommended reading
Code, AS1940 Flammable Liquids Code, AS1596 LP Gas Code
Dangerous Goods Act (Storage and Handling) Regulations
1989, Victorian Government Printer
Factory Mutual System, various data sheets
National Fire Protection Association. Fire Protection
Handbook. 17th edn, Quincy, - . Mass., National Fire Protection
Assoc., 1991
National Fire Protection Association, various Codes of Practice
MM816 Risk Technology (Maintenance)
4 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn Instruction:
lectures, seminars and site visits Assessment: assignments
A second year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
Management
Objectives
To provide an overview of maintenance practices and
technologies used to predict plant performance reductions
from the onset of damage and to introduce methods used to
improve operating performance through monitoring
procedures.
Content
Designing a maintenance program, selection procedures and
parameters.
Monitoring systems, performance and condition for
thermography, noise, vibration power, efficiency.
Noise control, sound measurement and analysis, sound
propagation predictions, acceptability and standards, noise
reduction methods.
Vibration control, vibration measurement, analysis and
control, machinery balancing.
Computer modelling, language and program structure,
algorithms and flow charting, modelling real systems.
Recommended reading
Beebe, R.S., Machine Condition Monitoring. 2nd edn, Victoria,
Engineering Publications, 1988
Buley, M., Industrial Noise Control. Melbourne, Swinburne Press,
1991
Steidel, R.F., An Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations. 3rd edn,
New York, Wiley, 1989
Thompson, W.T., Theory ofMechanica1 Vibrations. Unwyn, 1987
MM817 Risk Research
7 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn Instruction:
lectures, group work and tutorials Assessment: assignments
3 A second year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
s.
T Management
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0 bjectives
To encourage students to develop skills and techniques for
conducting and reporting on research in the field of risk
management.
Content
Research methodology and orientation.
Resource gathering techniques; data acquisitions and
analysis.
Use of library as resource centre.
Research communication techniques.
Recommended reading
Lane, N., Techniques for Student Research. Melbourne, Longman
Cheshire, 1989
Leedy, P.D., Practical Research Planning and Design. 5th edn,
New York, Macmillan, 1993
MM818 Risk Engineering Science (Health and
Safety)
6 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn Instruction:
lectures and tutorials Assessment: assignments
A second year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
Management
0 b jectives
To extend the MM810 introductory work in ~ractical
applications as indicated below.
Content
Engineering risk control for external and internal energy
sources.
Application of the event synthesis technique to a class of
events and of the fault tree analysis to a typical machine or
process.
Justification, priority setting and work scheduling for risk
control tasks.
Machinery safeguarding design, legal principles and
requirements, design criteria, codes and standards, process of
design of safeguards.
Isolation procedures and work permit systems, definitions,
components, procedure design reliability.
Work procedure design: principles of design, practicability
and legal criteria, reliabll~ty and behavioural control
measures.
Electrical safety, MEN system, earth leakage systems, EMR
effects, static electricity.
Recommended reading
Cooper, W.F., Electrical Safety Engineering. 3rd edn, London,
Butterworths, 1993
International Study Group on Risk Analysis. Risk Analysis in the
Process Industries. Rugby, Institution of Chemical Engineers, 1985
International Study Group on Risk Analysis. Nomenclature for
Hazard and Risk Assessment in the Process Industries. Rugby,
Institution of Chemical Engineers, 1985
King, R. and Magrid, J., Industrial Hazard and Safety Handbook.
London, Newnes Butterworths, 1979
McElroy, F.E., Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial
Operations. 9th edn, Chicago, National Safety Council, 1988
Various standards on machine safeguarding
MM819 Risk Engineering Science (Plant and
Pro~ert~)
6 credit i70intS 2 hours ~ eweek r Hawthorn Instruction:
lectures and tutorials Assessment: assignments
A second year subject in the Graduate Diploma of Risk
Management