COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CEK 3034 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TUNÇ DEMIRBILEK

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations (Evening)
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

To comprehend the various aspects of occupational health and safety, to provide the skill of being able to prepare, carry out and assess a programme of occupational health and safety in an organisation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To know occupational health and safety legislation
2   Being able to analyse the causes of work-related accidents and being able to organize necessary precautions
3   Being able to explain the factors that affect the occupational health and being able to propose necessary precautions
4   Being able to explain the process of risk assessment
5   Being able to constitute work safety programme
6   Being able to explain factors of safety culture

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic Concepts
2 The Historical Development of Occupational Health and Safety
3 Occupational Accidents, Its Models and Occupational Diseases, Its Varieties
4 Relationship between Occupational Accidents and Ergonomics
5 Social and Economic Dimensions of Occupational Health and Safety
6 Legal Dimension of Occupational Health and Safety 1: The Constitution and Laws
7 Legal Dimension of Occupational Health and Safety 2: Regulations
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Mid-Term Exam
10 Occupational Health and Safety in the European Union
11 Behavior-Based Safety and Safety Culture
12 Occupational Health and Safety in terms of Human Resource Management
13 Occupational Hygiene and Personal Protective Equipment
14 Risk Management and OHSAS /TS 18000 Standard

Recomended or Required Reading

Tunç Demirbilek. (2005). Iş Güvenliği Kültürü, Istanbul: Legal Yayın.
Iş Sağlığı ve Iş Güvenliğinde Sorunlar ve Çözüm Yolları. (2011). Ankara: Türk-Iş Yayını.
Iş Kazaları ve Meslek Hastalığı Uygulamaları. (2011). Ankara: Türk-Iş Yayını.
Abdulvahap Yiğit. (2011). Iş Güvenliği, Istanbul: Aktüel Yayınları.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, Case Study

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

+90.232.3010351
t.demirbilek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday 04.00 pm-05.00 pm

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Reading 1 1 1
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 105

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.11111
LO.211
LO.311
LO.411
LO.511
LO.61111

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