COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BASIC CONCEPTS IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IŞS 6083 BASIC CONCEPTS IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ELECTIVE 1 0 0 3

Offered By

Occupational Health

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OSMAN ALPARSLAN ERGÖR

Offered to

Occupational Health

Course Objective

Learn the basic components of health in working life. To learn health and safety tools and methods at national and international level. To understand the relationship between the concept of occupational health and ethical practices.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to understand the concepts of health, work and health and occupational health and safety
2   Define the basic components of health in working life
3   Learn the risk factors that affect health in working life
4   To understand the relationship between health and safety in the working life
5   Learn about occupational diseases

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What are the meanings of health, work and health, occupational health and safety Case study
2 What are the basic components of health in work life 1 Case study
3 What are the basic components of health in work life 2 Case study
4 What are the risk factors that can affect health in work life Biological factors Workshop & group presentations
5 Physical factors General disscussion
6 Chemical factors
7 Ergonomical factors
8 Psychosocial factors
9 Mechanical factors
10 What are the practices of health and safety engineer

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRF PERFORMANCE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + PRF* 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + PRF* 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** 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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 11 1 11
Case study 4 1 4
Group session 1 1 1
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 1 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 4 5 20
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 68

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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