COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HEALTH AND ERGONOMICS IN LABOR LIFE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CEK 4033 HEALTH AND ERGONOMICS IN LABOR LIFE ELECTIVE 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

Management Information Systems

Course Objective

The course aims to inform students about concepts of health and ergonomics
and to teach students basic components of health and ergonomics with samples for recognizing
occupational accidents and occupational diseases and learning the ways of prevention.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understanding the concepts of health and ergonomics.
2   Explaining the health and security problems of workers and solutions of these problems.
3   Introducing the culture of labor safety.
4   Establishing the relationship between occupational accidents and ergonomics.
5   Evaluating the ergonomics of computer aided work environment.
6   Evaluating the electronic monitoring process in the way of health.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is health Health Creator Factors and Health
2 Ergonomics
3 Occupational Health/Occupational Accidents
4 Occupational Diseases
5 Threatening Factors of Occupational Health and Safety
6 Occupational Accidents-Ergonomics Relations
7 Occupational Safety Culture
8 Mid-Term
9 Mid-Term
10 Business Design-Monotony
11 Ergonomic Factors that Affect Health in Labor Life - Computer Aided Working Environment
12 Ergonomic Factors that Affect Health in Labor Life Electronic Monitoring and Performance Evaluation
13 Cognitive Ergonomics
14 Information of Ergonomics

Recomended or Required Reading

Main Textbook: Tunç Demirbilek. (2005). Iş Güvenliği Kültürü, Istanbul: Legal Yayınları.

Help book: 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.

Gülten Incir: Ergonomi: Çalışma Ortamı ve Fiziksel Çevre, MPM, 2008.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Activities are given in detail in the Assessment Methods and Total Workload sections.

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


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 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 109

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55
LO.65

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