IND 4610 - Safety Systems Engineering

• Identify a variety of occupational hazards
• Apply analytical tools to define occupational hazards
• Apply intervention strategies for ameliorating occupational hazards
• Identify information and other resources regarding occupational hazards
• Discover how to solve problems related to safety and occupational health, and present aforementioned information
• Identify and define a variety of hazard identification and assessment methods and techniques
• Identify and examine safety management principles and the elements of an effective systems safety program
• Use risk reduction strategies and the hazard reduction sequence
• Gain knowledge of the application of systems safety engineering principles through the study of pragmatic examples and case studies

• Basic knowledge and understanding of human factors engineering including the systems approach to solving problems
• Basic knowledge and understanding of probability and statistics

• Introduction to safety, including a historical background, trends in safety, and safety roles (e.g., organization, employees, regulation)
• Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) legislation
• Worker’s compensation, economic aspects of OSH
• Accident causation
• Record keeping and analysis
• Hazard analysis
• Risk perception, human error, and reliability
• Safety inspections
• Mechanical and other hazards, hazardous substances, materials handling
• Cumulative trauma and other ergonomic issues
• Employee training including motivation and attitudes
• Development of successful safety program