Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
202200402107OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETYElective123
Level of Course Unit
Short Cycle
Objectives of the Course
To inform the students against occupational accidents and diseases, first aid and teach security measures. Learn and practice the subject of a comprehensive occupational health and safety.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Yrd. Doç. Dr. Bahri GÜR
Learning Outcomes
1Identifying and analyzing problems by using knowledge and skills acquired in the field of occupational health, developing solution suggestions and team work
2To know job security materials, warning and danger signs and plates, to have information about their properties and to have appropriate use ability for their purpose
3Describing security measures in fire and explosion
Mode of Delivery
Daytime Class
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Attendance (minimum 70%) Specified sources to come to class prepared. To ensure that the required resources for the course.
Course Contents
Definition of Occupational health, Employee health, occupational health and safety team, ocupational health services, work-related diseases and the prevention of occupational diseases, occupational history taking assessment of health status, job-worker harmony, job-specific evaluations, risk assessments procedures, record systems for occupational health, epidemiology in occupational health, ethical issues. Definition and history of occupational safety, accident occurrence and types, and ways to protect occupational diseases, ergonomics, occupational safety in the workshop of electrical and manual tools, Business security Guards, Rules of First Aid, safety measures of the explosion and the fire, Business Law and regulations, the Occupational Safety Investigation.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Development of Concepts and Rules of Occupational Health and Safety, Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion Discussions
2Business Law, Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
3Physical Risk Factors,Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
4OSH Management Systems.Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
5Chemical Risk Factors,Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
6Biological Risk Factors, Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
7 Psychosocial Risk Factors,Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
8Midterm Exam
9Ergonomics, OSG on Screened Vehicles,Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
10Emergency Plans, Safety measures in fire and explosion, First aid rules, Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
11Occupational Accidents, Occurrence and Types of Accidents, OHS in Electrical Appliances, basic information about causes, consequences and prevention of occupational accidents and occupational diseases,Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
12Health Surveillance and Occupational Diseases, Occupational Diseases and ways of protection, Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
13Using Personal Protective Equipment, Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
14Fire and explosion safety precautions, Warning signs, National and international standards,Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
Recommended or Required Reading
-İş Sağlığı, Nazmi Bilir, Ali Naci Yıldız, Hacettepe Üniversitesi yayınları, 2004 -İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği, Alp Esin TMMOB yanını, 2004 8. Risk Değerlendirme Pratik El Kitabı TMMOB 2004 -Süzek S, İş Güvenliği Hukuku, 12. Özkılıç Ö., İş sağlığı ve güvenliği yönetim sistemleri ve risk değerlendirme metodolojileri Ankara, 2005. -Güler Ç. Ergonomi.2004. - -Güler Ç., L. Akın, “Halk Sağlığı Temel Bilgiler” Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, Ankara 2006.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination1100
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination122
Attending Lectures14228
Discussion10110
Question-Answer10110
Case Study616
Self Study339
Individual Study for Mid term Examination188
Individual Study for Final Examination11616
Performance212
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)92
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