ECTS - Occupational Health and Safety

Occupational Health and Safety (IE443) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Occupational Health and Safety IE443 Area Elective 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language English
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Team/Group.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Course Assistants
Course Objectives This course provides Occupational health and safety legislations, inform basic principles of occupational health and safety, educate individuals who will generate analytical solutions and perform these solutions at site , protect employees health and working conditions and provide advices on this issue.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Students will acquire a broad practical knowledge of occupational health and safety.
  • Students will generate analytical solutions for occupational health and safety issues at their business life.
  • Student will overlook on national health and safety legislations.
  • Student will gain the knowledge to take proactive approaches by perspective of occupational health and safety.
Course Content Basic information on occupational health and safety, principles and legislations, occupational health and safety requirements to be applied in the workplace, occupational accidents, risk assessment and occupational audits; a proactive approach to occupational health and safety.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Basic Principles of Occupational Health and Safety
2 Occupational Health and Safety Legislation
3 Occupational Health and Safety Legislation
4 Risk Factors / Physical, Chemical, Biological, Ergonomic, Electrical, Psychosocial
5 Ergonomics
6 Work accident and occupational disease management
7 Midterm
8 Health and Safety Education Management
9 Risk Assessment Management
10 Risk Assessment Methods
11 Emergency Management
12 Accident Investigation, Inspection and Safety System
13 Occupational Health and Safety Audit Management
14 ISO 45001 Management System
15
16 General discussion

Sources

Course Book 1. [1] Phil Hughes, Ed Ferrett, Introduction Health And Safety At Work, Elsevier, 2005.
2. [2] John RIDLEY, Health And Safety in Brief, Elsevier, 2008.
3. [3] AC van der VYVER, Risk Management in The Mining Industry, University of Pretoria, 2011
4. [4] Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331 and Regulations

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation - -
Project 1 30
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 30
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 40
Toplam 3 100
Percentage of Semester Work
Percentage of Final Work 100
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 An ability to apply knowledge in mathematics and basic sciences and computational skills to solve manufacturing engineering problems
2 An ability to define and analyze issues related with manufacturing technologies
3 An ability to develop a solution based approach and a model for an engineering problem and design and manage an experiment
4 An ability to design a comprehensive manufacturing system based on creative utilization of fundamental engineering principles while fulfilling sustainability in environment and manufacturability and economic constraints
5 An ability to chose and use modern technologies and engineering tools for manufacturing engineering applications
6 An ability to utilize information technologies efficiently to acquire datum and analyze critically, articulate the outcome and make decision accordingly
7 An ability to attain self-confidence and necessary organizational work skills to participate in multi-diciplinary and interdiciplinary teams as well as act individually
8 An ability to attain efficient communication skills in Turkish and English both verbally and orally
9 An ability to reach knowledge and to attain life-long learning and self-improvement skills, to follow recent advances in science and technology
10 An awareness and responsibility about professional, legal, ethical and social issues in manufacturing engineering
11 An awareness about solution focused project and risk management, enterpreneurship, innovative and sustainable development
12 An understanding on the effects of engineering applications on health, social and legal aspects at universal and local level during decision making process

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 16 3 48
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project 1 15 15
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 7 7
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 7 7
Total Workload 125