COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISG 4001 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Chemistry

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SERAP ALP

Offered to

Chemistry
Physics
Chemistry (Evening)
Physics(Evening)

Course Objective

The objectives of the course are to provide students to learn aim and scope of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, to learn their duties, powers, responsibilities aimed at ensuring Occupational Health and Security and also to follow and interpret the legal regulation on Occupational Health and Security.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will learn International Legal Framework for Occupational Safety and related establishments
2   Students will have knowledge about creating occupational safety boards in workplaces, inspecting the workplaces and creating workplaces, the rules on workplaces and their add-ons.
3   Students will have general knowledge electrical current and its danger and also fire that may ocur in workplaces.
4   Students will know possible effects of the chemicals in the forms of solid, liquid and gas.
5   Students will know the basic principle of first aid and recognize healt and protection signs.
6   Students will learn the symbols associated with chemicals and international labeling system.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General Definitions
2 International Legislation about occupational safety
3 National institutions on occupational safety
4 National institutions on occupational safety
5 Occupational Safety Boards
6 Inspection of workplace
7 Establishment of workplace, Regulations of workplace and its add-ons
8 Midterm
9 Electrical current and fire
10 The possible effects of chemicals in the forms of solid, liquid and gas
11 Pouring and spreading of chemicals
12 First aid and rescue
13 Health and Safety Signs
14 Symbols about chemicals and international labeling systems for chemicals

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Kimyasal Maddelerle Çalışmalarda Sağlık Ve Güvenlik Önlemleri Hakkında Yönetmelik
Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı
Resmi Gazete: 26.12.2003/25328
2. Kanserojen Ve Mutajen Maddelerle Çalışmalarda Sağlık Ve Güvenlik Önlemleri Hakkında Yönetmelik
Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı
Resmi Gazete: 26.12.2003/25328
3. Asbestle Çalışmalarda Sağlık Ve Güvenlik Önlemleri Hakkında Yönetmelik
Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı
Resmi Gazete: 26.12.2003/25328 4. Patlayıcı Ortamların Tehlikelerinden Çalışanların Korunması Hakkında Yönetmelik
Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı
Resmi Gazete: 26.12.2003/25328
5. Parlayıcı, Patlayıcı, Tehlikeli Ve Zararlı Maddelerle Çalışılan Işyerlerinde Ve Işlerde Alınacak Tedbirler Hakkında Tüzük
Çalışma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanlığı
Resmi Gazete: 24.12.1973/14752
6. Tehlikeli Atıkların Kontrolü Yönetmeliği
Çevre ve Orman Bakanlığı
Resmi Gazete Tarih Ve Sayısı :27 Ağustos 1995/ 22387

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 QUZ QUIZ
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + QUZ * 0.10 + ASG * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + QUZ * 0.10 + ASG * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The assignments will be distributed to the students within the first 4 weeks after the start of the education and in the last two weeks of the semester, they will be collected from the students for signature.

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term and final exams, active participation to the lecture, homework.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Kadriye Ertekin
kadriye.ertekin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparing assignments 1 2 2
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 0,5 7
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4,5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 50

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.1424
LO.232
LO.3222
LO.43423
LO.53
LO.65554