COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MINING LAW AND WORK SAFETY IN MINES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIN 5049 MINING LAW AND WORK SAFETY IN MINES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MUHARREM KEMAL ÖZFIRAT

Offered to

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

Course Objective

Legal authority and responsibility about work safety of students who will graduate and a lesson which will be made situation evaluations concerning work safety in their jobs will be defined in mining engineering disciplines. Related regulations, labor law and the responsibilities of engineers will be explained in the lesson.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Put forward the general definitions of work safety definitions
2   To classify work accidents and occupational illness as statistically
3   To explain risk analysis and risk evaluation concepts with examples
4   Determining the responsibilities and powers of the engineers in terms of work safety and mining law
5   Examining of work safety in terms of legal in mine administrations

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The importance of work safety and mining law, general definitions, international work safety regulations and assignment of homework
2 Evaluation of work safety and mining law, definition of general evaluation methods with the accident frequency rate and accident severity rate
3 Definition of occupational illness, the related regulations, the necessary precautions related to occupational illness
4 Labour Inspectorate, responsibilities of Ministry of labour and social security concerning work safety, laws and regulations.
5 Work safety measures to be taken in open pit mining
6 Legal evaluation is made on the issue of producing, transporting and storage of explosive materials and regulations related to explosives
7 Types of fire, fire prevention, fire-related regulations, A, B and C class fires, prevention methods
8 Occupational illness
9 Work safety rules in underground mines, regulations, technical inspectorate, responsibilities and obligations
10 Homework presentations and discussion
11 Electricity and its hazards, protection methods from electricity, work safety preventions related electricity Risk analysis, Risk evaluation Explaining risk analysis and evaluation with examples
12 Risk Analysis and Risk Assesment
13 Explanation of Risk Analysis and Risk Assessment with examples
14 Explanation of Risk Analysis and Risk Assessment with examples

Recomended or Required Reading

- Külahçıoğlu, G. (1996). Iş Güvenliği, DEÜ Müh. Fak. Basım Ünitesi, No:49, Izmir.
- Accident Analysis & Prevention, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575.
-Bayır, M. & Ergül, M. (2006). Iş Güvenliği, Alfa Aktüel Yayınları, s:213, Bursa.
-Hale, A. &Baram, M. (1998). Safety Management The Challenge of Change, Pergamon, Netherlands.
-Bahr, N.J. (1997). System Safety Engineering and Risk Assesment: A Practical Approach, Taylor&Francis, USA.
-Asfahl, C.R., (2003). Industry safety and health management, Pearson Education Inc., USA.
-Mol, T. (2003). Productive safety management, Elsevier, Oxford.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lesson will be made in the form of oral presentations, visual expressions and discussion of given homeworks in the class.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


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)

kemal.ozfirat@deu.edu.tr / office phone: (232) 3017539

Office Hours

Monday, Friday at 9:00-10:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 1,5 28
Preparing homework 1 10 10
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 6 6
Preparation for Final Exam 1 8 8
Final 1 2 2
Mid-term 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 112

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.15455
LO.24
LO.345
LO.4
LO.54

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