MINE447 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
| Course Code: | 5650447 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Mining Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. NURAY DEMİREL |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The objectives of this course are to provide students with the solution of the environmental problems encountered in the mining activities, the concept of health and safety, safety regulations and the main requirements to create healthy and safe working environment.
1. At the end of this course, students will:
2. Know basic concepts, laws, and regulations related to occupational health and safety.
3. Describe main causes of mine accidents and unhealthy conditions and their consequences.
4. Evaluates risks involved in a mining operation, and
5. Apply accident prevention techniques namely, Job Safety Analysis and Fault Tree Analysis.
Course Content
Legal aspects of labor protection, safety laws and regulations. Ergonomics approach to health and safety. Industrial environment. Statistical and economical analyses using accident injury experience data, cost of accident, modern accident preventing techniques, human factor in health and safety, industrial training.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
1. Recognize the significance of safety in mining industry and become familiar to the legal aspects and historical mine accidents in the World and in Turkey.
2. Gain in depth knowledge about industrial hygiene including heat, noise, illumination, and vibration related problems and safety standards in mines.
3. Improve the recognition of safety issues in haulage design and ground control in both surface and underground mining.
4. Describe and outline accident prevention methods.
5. Implement a qualitative risk assessment as a team work and present their findings in a project competion.
6. Recognize the significance of emergency preparedness and response.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | No | Yes | ||
| 1 | An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics | ✔ | |||
| 2 | An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors | ✔ | |||
| 3 | An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences | ✔ | |||
| 4 | An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts | ✔ | |||
| 5 | An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives | ✔ | |||
| 6 | An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions | ✔ | |||
| 7 | An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies | ✔ | |||