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JFZ2027 | Occupational Health and Safety | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | Level of Course | First Cycle | Status | Elective | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Cengiz DEMİR | Co-Lecturer | | Language of instruction | Turkish | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | Main goals of this course is to equip the student with understanding the importance of occupational health and safety and modern techniques applied to improve health and safety standards and to minimize the mine accidents. |
Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | LO - 1 : | know the basic terminology of occupational health and safety; e.g., hazard, risk, incident, injury. | 9,10,11 | | LO - 2 : | describe the work related hazard and risks. | 9,10,11 | | LO - 3 : | have knowledge of potential hazards in their workplace. | 9,10,11 | | LO - 4 : | have knowledge of the occupational health and safety legislation No:6331. | 9,10,11 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | |
The historical development of occupational health and safety; basic terminology of occupational health and safety e.g., hazard, risk, incident, injury; safety culture; physical, chemical, biologic and physico-social risks at workplace; potential hazards in applied geophysics; the occupational health and safety legislation in Republic of Türkiye No:6331. |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | Introduction, general information about the course; purpose, subject, content, resources and evaluation.
| | Week 2 | Basic concepts and history of occupational health and safety. | | Week 3 | Safety culture. | | Week 4 | Occupational health and safety in Türkiye and world. | | Week 5 | Constitution, hierarchy of norms, occupatioanal health and safety law, history of occupatioanal health and safety legislation No:6331. | | Week 6 | Physical hazards; noise, vibration. | | Week 7 | Physical hazards; thermal comfort, lighting, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, high and low pressure. | | Week 8 | Kimyasal tehlikeler; gaz ve tozlar. | | Week 9 | Midterm exam | | Week 10 | Chemical hazards; carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic substances. | | Week 11 | Biological hazards; bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms. | | Week 12 | Psychosocial risk factors and hazards. | | Week 13 | Ergonomic risk factors and hazards. | | Week 14 | Fire safety and risk management. | | Week 15 | Universal and social ethics in engineering applications.
| | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | |
1 | Demir, C., 2020, İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Ders Notları (Yayımlanmamış). | | 2 | Güyagüler, T., Karakaş, A., Güngör, A. 2005; Occupational Health and Safety in Mining Indusrty, Ankara. | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Mid-term exam | 9 | 18/04/2022 | 1 | 50 | End-of-term exam | 16 | 06/06/2022 | 1 | 50 | |
Student Work Load and its Distribution | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 10 | 50 | Arasınav için hazırlık | 4 | 1 | 4 | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 4 | 1 | 4 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | Total work load | | | 90 |
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