Environmental Engineering for Sustainable Development

The course aims to provide quantitative methods for safety analysis in workplaces, with a specific focus on construction sites, in accordance with the recent legislative provisions contained in Legislative Decree April 9, 2008, n. 81, and subsequent amendments. Specific objectives: - Theoretical insights to support a risk theory aimed at defining safety objectives and the criteria for verifying “acceptability” and “compliance”; - Analysis of the role of geo-historical-statistical data on conditional incident rates: - for defining safety objectives; - for measuring the validity of the hypotheses and parameters of models and incident scenarios; - for evaluating the effectiveness of safety systems, subsystems, and devices; - Use of models in all stages of the probabilistic quantitative methodology of Risk Analysis; - Study of the constitutive and organizational elements of construction sites and related risks; - Analysis of construction site types and risk factors, focusing on: - Statistical-interpretative analysis of accident and injury data; - Optimization of databases; - Calculation of empirical rates, conditional rates, and empirical damage indicators; - Cause-effect probabilistic models (FTA) representing the relationships between primary causes and incident events for some representative types; - Probabilistic models of risk evolution from the triggering event to steady-state residual risk conditions; - Probabilistic models for damage assessment; - Definition of overall safety objectives for the sector; - Analysis of “policy price” strategies with ex post incentive/disincentive strategies (e.g., bonus-malus insurance premium systems based on the actual safety performance of the insured in the previous year) and ex ante.

A strong understanding of probability concepts and calculation models is required.

Materials provided by the instructor

Attendance to lectures is optional, and the teaching materials are designed to support independent study as well.

Written and oral exam, along with project evaluation.

Classes and in-class exercises are scheduled.