The knowledge field risk and safety includes analyses of environmental and health risks, reliability, vulnerability and safety in technical and social systems. Such analyses are intended to provide a foundation for decisions about risk preventive and security-promoting measures. The research within this field draws on use of knowledge from those fields of technological, natural, medical, social and behavioural science that may contribute to risk and safety assessments. Even if the research domain of risk and safety is thus strongly interdisciplinary, a degree project in risk and safety at KTH must have a clear connection to technology and technological science.
The choice of method is strongly dependent on the type of risk and safety issues that are treated. Statistical methods have a central role in many cases but in other cases, other methods can be the more suitable. The subject-specific skills consist of assessing such a basis in a collected way that gives a justified and true image for the decision.
Course is presented in a thesis. The work is carried out individually or jointly by two students. In the latter case the individual contributions shall be clearly separable. The topic of the essay can be suggested by the student, teacher or some outside client. The student designs a work plan. When the work plan is approved, at the latest, a supervisor is appointed whom the student should be able to continuously consult during the work.