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Jan 15, 2025
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IE 377 - Safety in Engineering3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course is designed to prepare the student for a leadership role in management to proactively and aggressively apply basic principles of safety in order to protect the occupational health of the workforce and the general public while improving the company’s bottom line. (prereq: junior standing)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• identify a variety of occupational hazards.
• apply analytical tools to define occupational hazards.
• apply intervention strategies for ameliorating occupational hazards.
• find information and other resources regarding occupational hazards.
• understand how to solve problems related to safety and occupational health, and how to present aforementioned information.
• better understand the critical value of lifelong learning.
Prerequisites by Topic
• None
Course Topics
• Introduction to safety, historical background, trends in safety engineering, safety roles (organization, employees, regulation) (1.5 weeks)
• Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) legislation (1 week)
• Worker’s compensation, economic aspects of OSH (1 week)
• Accident causation (1 week)
• Record keeping and analysis (.5 week)
• Hazard analysis (.5 week)
• Risk perception, human error and reliability (1 week)
• Safety inspections (.5 week)
• Mechanical and other hazards, hazardous substances, materials handling (1 week)
• Cumulative trauma and other ergonomic issues (1 week)
• Employee training, motivation and attitudes, developing a successful safety program (1 week)
Coordinator
Leah Newman
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