COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

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

Offered By

Faculty of Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MUHARREM KEMAL ÖZFIRAT

Offered to

Industrial Engineering
Civil Engineering (Evening)
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Geological Engineering
Geophysical Engineering
Mining Engineering (Evening)
Mechanical Engineering (Evening)
Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Mining Engineering
Geological Engineering (Evening)
Civil Engineering
Textile Engineering

Course Objective

Teaching basic concepts in work health and safety (definition of work accidents and reasons). The purpose is teaching students the knowledge of preventing work accidents according to work safety regulations.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The students should be able to understand basic definitions and topics in work safety
2   The students should be able to use definition of work accident, reasons of work accident and international work accident assesment methods
3   The students should be able to understand national institutions dealing with work safety, authority and responsibilities of work safety
4   The students should be able to understand labour inspector, occupational disease and reasons
5   The students should be able to understand control and prevention of work accidents and occupational disease, risk analysis, risk management, prevention international work accident

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definitions dealing with work safety
2 Work accidents and occupational disease
3 Work accident analysis
4 National institutions dealing with work safety
5 National institutions dealing with work safety
6 Occupational safety and health committee
7 Workplace inspection
8 Midterm
9 Occupational disease
10 Occupational disease
11 Occupational disease
12 Control and prevention of occupational disease
13 Control and prevention of occupational disease
14 International regulations dealing with work safety

Recomended or Required Reading

Özkılıç, Ö. (2005), Iş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Yönetim Sistemleri ve Risk Değerlendirme
Metodolojileri, TISK Yayınları, Ankara.
Bahr, N.J., 1997. System Safety Engineering and Risk Assesment: A Practical Approach,
Taylor&Francis, Ney York, 251 s.
Hale, A. & Baram, M.,1998. Safety Management The Challenge of Change, Pergamon,
Netherlands, 275 s.
OHSAS 18001, TS18001. 2007.
Bayır, M., Ergül, M. (2006), Iş Güvenliği, Alfa Aktüel Yayınları, s: 213, Bursa.
Regulations dealing with work safety

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

presentation and discussions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm 1: LO:1-3
Final LO:1-5

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc.Prof.Dr.Kemal ÖZFIRAT
E-mail: kemal.ozfirat@deu.edu.tr
No: +90 232 301 75 39

Office Hours

Thursday: 09:00-11:00 a.m

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 56

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.1443445
LO.2443354
LO.3443345
LO.4554445
LO.5555455

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