COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RESPONSIBLE CARE IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISG 5050 RESPONSIBLE CARE IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SERAP ALP

Offered to

Ph.D. in Occupational Health and Safety
Occupational Healty and Safety
Occupational Healty and Safety(Non-Thesis-Evening)

Course Objective

Initiated first in 1984 in Canada and based on voluntariness the Responsible Care Act is a principle which keeps human life, environmental and natural resources protection and better conditions in liveable environment at the forefront.
In the scope of rules which are applied now totally in 52 countries including Türkiye, contains all studies for improving working conditions and environment in Chemistry sector. The aim of this course is to introduce Responsible Care which aims the chemical industry plant to care about environment, human health and safety and give information about scope, rules and applications of it

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learn the Responsible Care Act;
2   Know its applications in chemical industry;
3   Gain information about basic principles and management rules of Responsible Care
4   Gain information about Responsible Care applications in the World
5   Gain information about Responsible Care applications in Türkiye.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Responsible Care and Application Reasons
2 Responsible Care Process in the World and Türkiye
3 Developing Health Environment and Safety Management in Industry
4 Social Responsibility of Plants On Environmental Issues
5 Main Subjects of Responsible Care
6 Basic Policies and Management Guidelines of Responsible Care
7 Stages of Responsible Care
8 Ethics Changes in the Companies by Responsible Care Applications
9 Responsible Care Applications in the World
10 Responsible Care Applications in Türkiye
11 Homework Presentation
12 Homework Presentation
13 Homework Presentation
14 Homework Presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): 1-) Responsible Care: A New Strategy for Pollution Prevention and Waste
Reduction Through Environment Management Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Paul Rosenfeld,
Anton Davletshin, 2008, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas
2-) 2015 Responsible Care Status Report http://www.icca-chem.org/en/Home/Responsible-care/
3) Chemical Process Safety, Fundamentals with Applications, 2002, Pentice Hall, NJ, USA Supplementary Book(s): 1-) Üçlü Sorumluluk Tanıtım Dosyası - TKSD http://www.tksd.org.tr/doc/%C3%9C%C3%87L%C3%9C%20SORUMLULUK%20TANITIM.pdf
2-) Türkiye'de Kimya Sanayinde Sağlık, Çevre ve Is Güvenliği Üçlü Sorumluluk Uygulamaları
http://www.emu.edu.tr/smeconf/turkcepdf/bildiri_57.pdf
References:
Materials: Other references related to the subject and internet

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Pressentation, describing the subject, question-answer, sampling, homework

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Student will be assessed with homework presentation and questions which will be asked in final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

During the semester, the responsibility to continues 70% of the courses is students self-owned. And must be observed the pecified time about course times. Unethical behavior that may occur in class and on exams, will be acting within the framework of
the relevant regulations. Teaching and examination implementation principles regulations of D.E.Ü Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences can be found at Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences web page.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry e-mail:
serap.alp@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced in term.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for final exam 1 75 75
Preparing assignments 4 15 60
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 178

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.154445
LO.2455454
LO.345445
LO.45455
LO.55545