This course presents to the principles of system safety, including risk, basic terminology, and the main types of hazard and safety assessment techniques. It provides the issues associated with conducting technical safety activities within an organizational and regulatory environment and the skills at applying theoretical safety engineering knowledge in situations constrained by available education, resources and organizational culture in the context of railway.

It covers life-cycle safety management system in context of railway. Safety assessment purpose and techniques will be discussed. This course also teaches systematic approaches to hazard identification and risk assessment, including principles of risk reduction and as law as reasonably practicable.

Moreover, This course provides a broad awareness of security principles, measures and techniques; and to provide a critical understanding of the interrelationships between safety and security. The working principles and processes of safety and accident investigation bodies will be explained. Furthermore, human factors concepts and techniques that can be used to support the design and evaluation of complex interactive systems, with a particular emphasis on safety critical systems will be addressed. Finally, safety critical issues within railway system and interacting external environments have been taught.