The process safety is crucial for modern industry for two reasons. On the one hand, it fulfills the increasingly stricter legal obligations to protect health and the environment; on the other hand, it increases the concern of both industrialists and workers towards the importance of such safety.
 The course aims to provide basic knowledge of health and safety procedures to be adopted in the production and utilization, storage and transport of hazardous substances.
 The aim of this course is threefold:
- to give students an overview of statistics of accidents, to handle an accident as a dynamical process, and to introduce a system approach towards accidents
- to be capable of assessing hazards that are inherent properties of the products and hazards that are related to the physical conditions of materials or processes, to be familiar with the classification of hazardous products
 - to be able to assess a prevention strategy for the use of dangerous chemicals (in a lab and industrial environment) and to adopt the protection measures adequate against accidents