Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health

Major: Tourism
Code of subject: 6.242.00.O.064
Credits: 3.00
Department: Civil safety
Lecturer: PhD Korchak Bohdan Orestovych
Semester: 5 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: The students have to: know the legal, normative-technical and organizational foundations of labor protection, the fundamentals of industrial safety and fire protection; to be able to ensure safety of skilled workers in conditions of dangerous and dreadful situations of natural and/or man-made charecter; be able to solve all tasks of professional activity including the obligatory account of labor protection and life safety requirements; know principles of effective management for labor protection and creating safety labor conditions; be able to organize safety of work for skilled workers in labor conditions; possess general cultural and professional competence in the issues of labor protection and life safety for ensuring personal and collective security.
Required prior and related subjects: Fundamentals of Law
Summary of the subject: Legal and organizational principles of occupational safety. Control system of occupational safety and its organization on enterprises. Sanitary and hygienic questions of occupational safety. The air of manufacturing zone. The illumination intensity of workplaces Factors, which are influenced on consequences of electric current affection. Measures and means of electrical protection. Characteristics of man as an element of the system "man - an environment of existence". Human capacity and his dynamics. Stress and adaptation. Methods as to support of optimal capacity for work. Risk as a quantitative assessment of dangers. The concept of risk. Grade rating of risk. Methodology of risk research. Social dangers, their causes and classification. Technological dangers and their consequences. Fire safety. Means of firefighting and finding of fire. Natural dangers. Classification of natural disasters. Stages of localization and elimination of threats.
Assessment methods and criteria: 40%: laboratory works and practical works; 20%: execution individual work; 40%: testing by lecture materials.
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