COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ERGONOMIC ASSESSMENT AND JOB SAFETY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IND 3983 ERGONOMIC ASSESSMENT AND JOB SAFETY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Industrial Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ŞEBNEM DEMIRKOL AKYOL

Offered to

Industrial Engineering

Course Objective

This course aims to provide students an understanding of various ergonomic assessment techniques and how these assessments can be used for reducing the potential for accidents, injury and ill health, improving performance and productivity.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Ability to ensure that the work and the work environment are compatible with human
2   2. Being able to define how the expectations from the worker while performing a task can be evaluated from an ergonomics perspective.
3   3. Ability to set continuous performance limits in static and dynamic works
4   4. Ability to establish the relationship between heart rate and continuous performance limit
5   5. Ability to calculate ergonomic risk factors of the work environment
6   6. Ability to make ergonomic analyzes and reports through teamwork

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the history of ergonomics and job safety
2 Importance of ergonomics and work criteria
3 Worker and performance relationship
4 Assessing the energy requirements on the worker
5 Fatigue and break
6 Worker s posture in working environment
7 Evaluation of tools and equipment
8 Ergonomic load lifting and moving
9 Ergonomic risk assessment techniques-part 1
10 Ergonomic risk assessment techniques-part 2
11 Ergonomic risk assessment techniques-part 3
12 Group presentations-part 1
13 Group presentations-part 2
14 Group presentations-part 3

Recomended or Required Reading

* Babalık, Fatih C. (2016) Mühendisler Için Ergonomi Işbilim, 6. Baskı, Dora Yayınları.
* Lehto, Mark R. and Landry, Steven J. (2012) Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics for Engineers, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
* Marras, William S. And Karwowski, Waldemar (2006) Fundamentals and Assessment Tools for Occupational Ergonomics (The Occupational Ergonomics Handbook), 2nd Ed. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
* Wickens, Christopher D., Lee, John D., Liu, Yili and Gordon-Becker, Sallie (2003) An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering. 2dn Ed. Pearson.
* Babalık, Fatih C. (2016) Mühendisler Için Ergonomi Işbilim, 6. Baskı, Dora Yayınları.
* Lehto, Mark R. and Landry, Steven J. (2012) Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics for Engineers, 2nd Edition, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
* Marras, William S. And Karwowski, Waldemar (2006) Fundamentals and Assessment Tools for Occupational Ergonomics (The Occupational Ergonomics Handbook), 2nd Ed. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
* Wickens, Christopher D., Lee, John D., Liu, Yili and Gordon-Becker, Sallie (2003) An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering. 2dn Ed. Pearson.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + PRJ * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + PRJ * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm Exam (30%) + Project (20%) + Final Exam (50%)

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sebnem.demirkol@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Office hours will be declared.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparing assignments 1 4 4
Preparing presentations 14 2 28
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 128

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1131
LO.2131
LO.3131
LO.4131
LO.5231
LO.63

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