COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SAFETY CULTURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISG 2013 SAFETY CULTURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Occupational Health and Safety

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

SERMIN KUN

Offered to

Occupational Health and Safety

Course Objective

This course aims to inform concepts and main characteristics of work safety, work accident, organisation culture and safety culture; to help for improving safety culture in the workplace; to examine work safety emprically by giving information to studenst about safety culture in Türkiye and in the World.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to use the notions of work safety and safety culture.
2   Learn to contract between safety culture and organisation culture.
3   Learn to examine the effect of safety culture on safety performance.
4   To be able analyze work safety practices in the world.
5   To be able know the academic studies on work safety culture in Türkiye.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The definition of occupational health and safety
2 Examining occupational diseases and work accident, results and importance
3 Culture and the concept of organizational culture.
4 Organizational and the importance of organizational culture
5 Organizational climate
6 Safety culture
7 I.Midterm, Safety cutture
8 Characteristics of safety culture
9 Safety culture models
10 The measurement of safety culture, positive safety culture
11 Safety climate
12 Analyzing work safety culture in the World and in Türkiye
13 Safety performance
14 Literature search

Recomended or Required Reading

Iş Güvenliği Kültürü, Dr. Salih Dursun
Materials to be used for the course will be provided by the course the teachers.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. DVD, video etc.

Assessment Methods

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

It is calculated by taking 40% of the Midterm exam, 60% of the final exam success rating.

Assessment Criteria

The understanding degree of students to 5 learning outputs is evaluated by midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1.70% of participation in the courses is mandatory
2.All kinds of plagiarism (cheating) initiative, and the actual results in disciplinary action

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Lecturer: Sermin KUN
sermin.kun@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday 13.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

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.17PO.18PO.19
LO.15
LO.232
LO.332
LO.44
LO.54

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