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Industrial and Occupational Health
This course will enable the students to
- Understand the basics of industrial health and safety measures
- Get aware of the regulations pertaining to health and safety in industry
- Acquaint with the national and international standards pertaining to health and safety
- Gain knowledge about occupational health, industrial hygiene, accidental prevention techniques to the students.
Course outcome
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ENV 423B |
Industrial and Occupational Health |
Upon completion of this course, student will: CO121: Develop understanding on occupational health and its significance at different work places CO122: Examine the various physiological and psychological effects of work place on the workers CO123: Design management plan for occupational health and safety at work place CO124: Implement safety measures at workplace for prevention of occupational hazards CO125: Execute their responsibility for knowing and following all safety and health rules and safe work practices, reporting all injuries, using the safety gear that’s provided for them, and reporting any unsafe conditions that they observe CO126: Design, support, and evaluate health and safety programs and implement procedures using project management principles and processes appropriate to the task |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Power point presentations, Informative Videos, Demonstration, tutorials Learning activities for the students: Image Interpretation, Case studies, Simulation |
Quiz, Power Point Presentations, Individual and group projects, Assignments, Class Test, Semester end examination |
- Definition of occupational Health
- Occupational Environment: Interaction in working Environment (physical chemical and biological, Man and machine, man and man)
- Occupational Hazards: physical, chemical, biological, Mechanical and psychological)
- Occupational Safety
- Health and Environmental Safety, Management – Principles & practices
- Planning for Safety: Planning: purpose, nature, scope and procedure. Management by objectives and its role in Safety, Health and Management (SHE)
- Bureau of Indian standards on safety and health 14489 - 1998 and 15001 – 2000
- Key principles in occupational safety and health:
- Core OSH principles
- Rights and duties
- Workers’ rights
- Employers’ responsibilities
- Governments’ duties
- OHSAS – 18001, EPA Standards, Performance measurements to determine
- effectiveness of PSM
- General aims and principles
- Policy formulation and review
- Policy instruments
- National laws, labour codes and regulations
- Role and obligations of the competent authority
- Policy coordination
- Education and training
- Relevant Conventions and Recommendation of ILO in the furtherance of Safety, Health and Environment (SHE).
- Safety in Chemical Industries
- Need of Safety in Chemical Industries
- Types of chemical industries
- Indian Standards
- Types of Chemical Hazards & Controls
- Safety in Petroleum Refinery, Mining and Petrochemical Industry
- Oil industry safety Department (OISD) norms for petroleum industry
- Hazards of bulk storages, and their control measures. Storage of manufacturing process. Hazard and control during manufacturing process
ESSENTIAL READING
- Frank P Lees – Loss of prevention in Process Industries, Vol. 1,Butterworth- Heinemann Ltd., London (1991).
- R. K. Jain and Sunil S. Rao , Industrial Safety , Health and Environment Management Systems, Khanna publishers , New Delhi (2006)
SUGGESTED READING
- Dr. K. U. Mistry - Fundamentals of Industrial Safety & Health, Siddharth Prakashan, Ahmadabad
e-RESOURCES
- Introduction to Industrial Health, Safety and Hygiene https://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/health/ephti/library/lecture_notes/env_health_science_students/ln_occ_hlth_sfty_hygiene_final.pdf
- Hnadbook on Occupational Health and Safety https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/ad88cc78-bcc2-41ae-80c5-cf8fbc7ba0e0/resource/9f141d29-d49b-48fc-a521-ef4b94d94e8a/download/ohs-wsa-handbook-public-health-workers.pdf
- Occupational Health and Safety https://pria-academy.org/pluginfile.php/557/mod_resource/content/1/Unit_1_-_Introduction_to_Occupational_Health_and_Safety.pdf
- Types of Occupational Hazards https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/training-library_industrial_hygiene.pdf
JOURNALS
- Annals of Occupational and Environmental medicine
- Archives of Occupational Health
- Lancet Public Health
- Journal of occupational and Environmental Hygiene
