COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MARINE ACCIDENT LNVESTIGATIONS AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DDD 6012 MARINE ACCIDENT LNVESTIGATIONS AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Maritime Security, Safety and Environmental Management

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SERIM PAKER

Offered to

Maritime Security, Safety and Environmental Management

Course Objective

To understand the reasons of marine transportation and accidents, marine traffic safety systems, work accidents in industrial ports and safety precautions, reasons of the tanker accident and determine precautions, the role of the human and environmental factors in marine accidents, system safety, safety management, statistical assessment of the accidents and risk analyze and to gain scientific research skills about salvage.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. To follow national and international literature,
2   2. Original research to design and implement encountered complex situations.
3   3. An ability to communicate effectively and to evaluate new information
4   4. To learn about contemporary issues and developments and critically interpret
5   5. To design the model, system or process within the limitations of economic, environmental, health, safety, security etc. to meet the desired requirements

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definitions of marine accidents
2 Reasons of the marine accidents, invetigations of statistics
3 Accident investigations in maritime sector, national and international regulations
4 Investigations of marine traffic safety system
5 Safety, safety culture, safety precautions and safety management
6 Tanker accidents, reasons and precautions
7 Risk analysis
8 Maritime communications
9 Accident prevention and accident modeling
10 Accident research procedures
11 Accident reports and case analyze of the accident reports
12 Root cause analyze
13 Root cause analyze methods
14 Comparisons of root cause analyze methods

Recomended or Required Reading

Literature and students homework discussions related with the course subjects, presentations. Active students participations is necessary.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Literature and students homework discussions related with the course subjects, presentations. Active students participations is necessary.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Knowledge, skill and competencies in doctorate level and understand safety, security and environmental management in marine transport; research, investigation, interpret, oral and written skills and competencies.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

serim.paker@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 2 5 10
Preparing assignments 2 6 12
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 142

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.15
LO.253
LO.35555
LO.455
LO.55533

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