Safety and Security Issues in Technical Infrastructures

In the modern age of urbanization, the mass population is becoming progressively reliant on technical infrastructures. These industrial buildings provide integral services to the general public including the delivery of energy, information and communication technologies, and maintenance of transport networks. The safety and security of these structures is crucial as new threats are continually emerging. Safety and Security Issues in Technical Infrastructures is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the modernization of occupational security and safety practices within information technology-driven buildings. While highlighting topics such as explosion process safety, nanotechnology, and infrastructural risk analysis, this publication explores current risks and uncertainties and the raising of comprehensive awareness for experts in this field. This book is ideally designed for security managers, safety personnel, civil engineers, architects, researchers, construction professionals, strategists, educators, material scientists, property owners, and students.

David Rehak is a PhD in Processes Modelling and Simulation of Troops and Population Protection at the University of Defence. He is currently an Associate Professor at the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Safety Engineering. His scientific and research work is aimed at critical infrastructure resilience and protection, risk management, and civil protection. He is a member of the International Association of Critical Infrastructure Protection Professionals (IACIPP), a member of the Czech Technology Platform Energy Security (TPEB), a reviewer of the “International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection” (IJCIP), a reviewer of the “Journal of Infrastructure Systems” (JIS) and the editor-in-chief of the “Transactions of the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Safety Engineering Series” (TSES).

Ales Bernatik is a PhD in Methodology for Industrial Risk Assessment and graduated in Environmental Protection. He is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava. His scientific and research work is aimed at risk analysis of industrial accidents and major-accident prevention. He is a member of the European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety, a member of the Association for Fire & Safety Engineering, a reviewer of international journals, etc.

Zdenek Dvorak completed his university education in the field of Military Transport in 1986. Until 1987 he worked at the Regional Administration of Military Transport in Hradec Kralove. Since 1988, he worked as a researcher at the Research Institute in Zilina. In 1993 he successfully defended his dissertation and became a PhD. Since 1996 he has worked as an assistant professor at the Military Faculty in Zilina. In 2000, after a successful habilitation procedure, he became associate professor. Since 2009 he has been Head of Research Department of Crisis Management. In 2011 he successfully inaugurated and was appointed professor. In 2015-2019 he was dean of the Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Zilina. He is currently professor, guarantor of the study program Security and Protection of Critical Infrastructure.

Martin Hromada graduated master education in Tomas Bata University in Zlin (TBU) in the study programme Security Technologies, Systems and Management in 2008. His dissertation thesis: “Technological aspects of critical infrastructure protection in SR” was defended in 2011. In 2017, he defended his habilitation thesis at the Faculty of Safety Engineering, VŠB - TU in Ostrava, and received the academic title of associate professor in Safety and Fire Protection. In the years 2010 - 2015 he worked in Deloitte Advisory Ltd. as a consultant and lead of the security research projects, Critical Infrastructure Protection in the Electricity Production, Transmission and Distribution Sector, and Actual Cyber Threats of Czech Republic and their Elimination. He currently works as an associated professor at the Department of Security Engineering, Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin. He is a project manager and leads the security research project RESILIENCE 2015 Dynamic Resilience Evaluation of Interrelated Critical Infrastructure Subsystems. Within the scientific-research, activities are mostly dedicated to the protection and resilience of critical (information) infrastructure issues and assessment of the physical protection systems functionality. He is a member of significant national expert groups of the Czech and Slovak Republic Ministry of Interior and the European institutions such as ERNCIP and CIWIN. He regularly participated in practical exercises relating to the protection of energy infrastructures (ARGOS project Bucharest, Bulgaria, Krizovany Slovakia, NATO CoE, Vilnius, Lithuania).