|
Sr. No. |
Topic |
Hours |
|
Unit 1 |
Introduction to Occupational Safety |
3 hours |
|
(i) |
Basic
terminologies, History of occupational safety |
1 hour |
|
(ii) |
System
safety |
1 hour |
|
(iii) |
Types and sources of
occupational hazards in various engineering systems, e.g.
construction, mines, chemical industries, nuclear industries, offshore
platform, automotive, etc. |
1 hour |
|
Unit 2 |
Occupational
safety and health concerns in industries |
5 hours |
|
(i) |
Workplace
safety, Safety in construction and demolition operations, |
1 hour |
|
(ii) |
Safety
in stacking, storage and transport of materials, Safety in operations on
hazardous machines and equipment |
1 hour |
|
(iii) |
Safety in working at
height, prevention of fall of material |
1 hour |
|
(iv) |
Safety
in hot and cold working, Safety in welding and gas cutting |
1 hour |
|
(v) |
Working
conditions such as ventilation, lighting, housekeeping, noise, dust, gases,
fumes, radiations |
1 hour |
|
Unit 3 |
Accident causation Theories and Models |
6 hours |
|
(i) |
Heinrich
Domino theory |
1 hour |
|
(ii) |
Energy
control model |
1 hour |
|
(iii) |
Petersen
model |
1 hour |
|
(iv) |
Surry�s
model |
1 hour |
|
(v) |
Reason�s
Swiss-Cheese model |
1 hour |
|
(vi) |
Chain
of Event models |
1 hour |
|
Unit 4 |
Occupational Hazards and Risk Assessment |
10 hours |
|
(i) |
Hierarchical
Task Analysis (HTA) |
1 hour |
|
(ii) |
Job
Cycle Check (JCC), Job Safety Analysis (JSA) |
2 hours |
|
(iii) |
Human
behaviour and errors |
1 hour |
|
(iv) |
Behaviour-based
safety |
1 hour |
|
(v) |
Human
error analysis |
2 hours |
|
(vi) |
Risk
perception, Individual and Societal risk |
1 hour |
|
(vii) |
Situational
awareness models |
1 hour |
|
(viii) |
Socio-technical
risk assessment |
1 hour |
|
Unit 5 |
Occupational Safety and Health Management
System (OSHMS) |
14 hours |
|
(i) |
Elements of OSHMS and
relevant technologies |
3 hours |
|
(ii) |
Safety
culture and Safety climate |
2 hours |
|
(iii) |
Safety
training and competency building |
2 hours |
|
(iv) |
Job
stress analysis, NASA TLX |
2 hours |
|
(v) |
Advanced
technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR),
Eye tracking, Human Visual System (HVS)
for safety improvement |
2 hours |
|
(vi) |
Safety
performance indicators |
1 hours |
|
(vii) |
Codes
and Acts of OSHMS |
2 hours |
|
Unit 6 |
Occupational Epidemiology |
10 hours |
|
(i) |
Occupational
diseases |
1 hour |
|
(ii) |
Epidemiology
data |
1 hour |
|
(iii) |
Epidemiology
study designs such as Cohort studies, Case-Control studies, Proportionate
Mortality studies, Cross-Sectional studies |
5 hours |
|
(iv) |
Advance
statistical analysis and interpretation of epidemiology data |
2 hours |
|
(v) |
Occupational
Epidemiology prevention strategies |
1 hour |
|
|
Total |
48 hours |
