COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RISK MANAGEMENT FOR HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISG 5015 RISK MANAGEMENT FOR HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ÖZLEM ÖTER

Offered to

Ph.D. in Occupational Health and Safety
Occupational Healty and Safety

Course Objective

This course provides an understanding on how to manage health and safety risks associated with hazardous chemicals. The lesson will be helpful for the students who aim to conduct a business with chemicals in their workplace. These can be a manufacturer, importer or supplier of hazardous chemicals, or a business owner, who uses, handles, generates or stores hazardous chemicals at their workplace. This course applies to substances, mixtures and articles used, handled, generated or stored at the workplace which are defined as hazardous chemicals under the WHS Regulations. This course also applies to the generation of hazardous chemicals from work processes, for example toxic fumes released during welding. The fallowing industries can be given as examples which need the managing of risks for chemicals in their workplace: Agriculture, battery industry, chemical industry, electrical industry, explosives industry, food industry, gas industry, laboratories, metal production and manufacturing industry, mining industry, paint industry, paper industry, petroleum industry, pharmaceutical manufacture, plastic manufacture, textile industry and etc.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course the student is expected to manage the systematic classification and labellingof chemical hazards and the preparation and understanding of their safety data sheets (SDS).
2   The students should know how to use handle and storage of the hazardous chemicals.
3   The students should learn who has health and safety duties in relation to hazardous chemicals.
4   They will know what is required to manage the risks associated with hazardous chemicals
5   They will be able to consult the workers in their workplace.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 INTRODUCTION TO HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS The risks associated with hazardous chemicals Prohibited and restricted hazardous chemicals Exposure standards Preparing a register and manifest of hazardous chemicals
2 IDENTIFYING HAZARDS How to identify which chemicals are hazardous Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and Material safety data sheets (MSDS) Labels
3 ASSESSING RISKS Decide who should do the assessment Decide what sort of risk assessment is appropriate Things to consider in assessing health risks How to assess physicochemical risks
4 CONTROLLING RISKS The hierarchy of control Specific control measures Maintaining control measures Providing information, training, instruction and supervision
5 MONITORING AND REVIEW Health monitoring Reviewing control measures
6 EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Emergency plan Emergency equipment and safety equipment Fire protection systems Monitors and alarms Automatic sprinkler systems Water supply
7 REQUIREMENTS FOR HEALTH MONITORING
8 OVERVIEW OF A RISK ASSESSMENT PROCESS Risk assessment checklist Examples of common fuel and oxygen sources Fire and explosion risks
9 PRACTICAL EXAMPLES OF CONTROL MEASURES
10 CASE STUDIES and student presentations
11 CASE STUDIES and student presentations
12 CASE STUDIES and student presentations
13 CASE STUDIES and student presentations
14 CASE STUDIES and student presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace, Safe Work Australia, 2012, ISBN
978-0-642-78335-6

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course will go on as class presentation and sometimes will be in interactive format. All course members are expected to attend the lectures and submission hours and take part in the submission/ discussion sessions. Besides, oral presentations on selected topics are to be prepared by the students.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS PRESENTATION
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRS * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

to be announced.

Assessment Criteria

to be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

to be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ozlem.oter@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

to be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 2 30 60
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 142

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.142
LO.23
LO.332
LO.432
LO.5234

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