Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
192201001109	OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY	Elective	1	1	3

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)

Learning Outcomes

1	Understanding of Labor Law and regulations
2	Introducing the Protectors (Machine and Personal Protectors) in occupational safety and making them comprehend the necessity of their use.
3	Learns Occupational Diseases and ways of prevention.
4	Comprehends the occurrence of accident and its types.
5	He has the knowledge of accessing scientific information in the field of occupational health, monitoring, evaluating and applying the current literature. Interprets and evaluates scientifically proven data by using the knowledge and skills acquired in the field of occupational health, defines and analyzes problems, develops solutions by considering professional and ethical values based on research and evidence, shares information, and makes teamwork.

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

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction to Occupational Health	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion Discussions
2	Historical development of Occupational Health	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
3	Dimensions in Occupational Health	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
4	Occupational Health Services and Occupational Health organization. Basic Occupational Health Services	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
5	Occupational Health Services "medical aspects"	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
6	Occupational Health services "technical aspects"	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
7	Assessment methods in occupational health	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
8	Midterm Exam
9	Vulnerable groups in occupational Health	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
10	Job-work-task spesific surveying/ monitoring	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
11	Epidemiology in Occupational Health	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
12	Relationship between Occupational and Environmental health	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
13	Occupational diseases, work related diseases, workplace accidents, work related injuries	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
14	Ergonomics in occupational health	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
15	International guidelines in occupational health	Lecture Power point presentation Question-and-answer, discussion
16	Final Exams

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 Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Makeup Examination	1	2	2
Quiz	2	1	2
Attending Lectures	14	2	28
Discussion	10	1	10
Question-Answer	10	1	10
Self Study	3	3	9
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	8	8
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	12	12
Report	2	1	2
Performance	2	1	2
Oral Examination	2	1	2
Homework	4	1	4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			94

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