COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WORK ACCIDENTS AND ANALYSIS IN MINING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISG 5011 WORK ACCIDENTS AND ANALYSIS IN MINING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BAYRAM KAHRAMAN

Offered to

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

Course Objective

Mining industry is one of the occupations that has highest accidents rates together with construction and metal industries. Since mining corporations are large scaled, number of injured people turns out to be high in an accident. In addition, serious problems occur after an accident. Within this course, accidents statistics, evaluations and precautions to decrease accidents will be explained.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Description of general work safety terms
2   Evaluation of open pit mine work accidents
3   Evaluation of underground mine work accidents
4   Responsibilities of mining employers
5   Preparation of warning and precautions signs in mines

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Description of mining accidents, their causes and theorems
2 Accident frequency rate, Accident severity rate and average accident frequency
3 Technical visit
4 Analysis of serious open pit mine accidents
5 Analysis of serious open pit mine accidents
6 Analysis of serious underground mine accidents
7 Proactive and reactive precautions for serious accidents and case studies
8 Proactive and reactive precautions for serious accidents and case studies
9 Preparation of work accident report as a sample
10 Classroom discussion
11 In job training in mining
12 Responsibilities of mining employers
13 Classroom discussion
14 Homework presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Külahçıoğlu, G. (1996). Iş Güvenliği, DEÜ Müh. Fak. Basım Ünitesi, No:49, Izmir.
Yardımcı kaynaklar: - 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

Presentation % 50
Final homework % 50

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS PRESENTATION
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS * 0.50 + ASG * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

to be announced.

Assessment Criteria

to be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

to be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

bayram.kahraman@deu.edu.tr / office phone: (232) 3017521

Office Hours

Monday, Friday at 9:00-10:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 28 28
Final Assignment 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 2 8 16
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 154

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.144554
LO.24545
LO.3555
LO.4455
LO.54445

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