KARACHI INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS & TECHNOLOGY

SPRING-2020
College Of Engineering
(Department of Electrical/Avionics/Mechatronics)

Course: Occupational Health and Safety Credit Hours: 1+0

Course Code: EE1401
Instructor:
Email Address:
Pre-requisite(s): -
Contact Hours: 1 Hrs/wk
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Course Description:
This course introduces the student to the study of workplace occupational health and safety. The Student
will learn safe work practices in offices, industry and construction as well as how to identify and prevent
or correct problems associated with occupational safety and health in these locations. Upon successful
completion of this course, the student will be able to:
 Identify hazards in the home, laboratory and workplace that pose a danger or threat to their
safety or health, or that of others.
 Control unsafe or unhealthy hazards and propose methods to eliminate the hazard.
 Present a coherent analysis of a potential safety or health hazard both verbally and in writing,
citing the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations as well as supported legislation.

Learning Outcomes:

Mapping of CLOs and PLOs

Program
Sr. Learning
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) Bloom’s Taxonomy
No. Outcomes
(PLOs)
Describe the OSH regulations and compliance
CLO_1 and how it will create safe working PLO_1 C1
environment.
Identify hazards, risks and safe work practices
CLO_2 in order to maintain healthy and safe work PLO_6 C1
environment.
Demonstrate and Perform communication
skills in a team to respond for an accident
CLO_3 PLO_8 A1
action at workplace with rules and regulations
pertaining to environmental health and safety
Assessment tools CLO_1 CLO_2 CLO_3 Assessment
 Assignment 2% 3% 5% 10%
Quizzes 10% 5% 5% 20%
Midterm Exam 10% 10% 0% 20%
Final Exam 10% 20% 20% 50%
Total 32% 38% 30% 100%

Grading Policy
Assessment Items Percentage (%)
Assignments 10
Quizzes 20
Midterm Exam 20
Final Exam 50

Teaching Methodology (Proposed as applicable):

Lectures (audio/video aids), written assignments/quizzes, tutorials, case studies relevant to engineering
disciplines, semester project, guest speaker, industrial/field visits, group discussion, report writing

Reference Books:
 The A-Z of health and safety by Jeremy Stranks, 2006.
 Mark Friend, Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health.
 The Manager’s Guide to Health & Safety at Work by Jeremy Stranks, 8 th edition, 2006.
 Occupational safety and health law handbook by Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewarts,
second edition, 2008.

Lecture Breakdown:

Week Lecture Topic

1 1 Health and Safety Foundations
 Concept of Safety
 Safety and Risk
 Voluntary v/s Involuntary Risk
 Consequences
2 2 Health and Safety Foundations
 Risk Assessment
 Accountability
 Liability
 Reversible Effects
 Threshold Levels of Risk
 Delayed v/s Immediate
3 3 Health and Safety Foundations
 Nature and scope of health and safety
 Reasons/benefits and barriers for good practices of health and
safety
  Legal frame work and OHS Management System
4 4 Fostering a Safety Culture
 Four principles of safety- RAMP (Recognize, Assess, Minimize,
Prepare)
 Re-thinking safety-learning from incidents
 Safety ethics and rules

5 Fostering a Safety Culture

 Roles and responsibilities towards safety
 Building positive attitude towards safety
 Safety cultures in academic institutions

5 6 Recognizing and Communicating Hazards

 Hazards and Risk
 Types of hazards: Physical (mechanical and non-mechanical),
Chemical (Toxic and biological agents), electrical, fire,
construction, heat and temperature, noise and vibration,
falling and lifting etc.
 Learning the language of safety: Signs, symbols and labels

7 7 Finding Hazard Information

 Material safety data sheets
 Safety data sheets and the GHS (Globally Harmonized Systems)
Accidents & Their Effect on Industry
 Costs of accidents

8 Mid Exams
9 8 Finding Hazard Information
 Time lost
 Work injuries, parts of the body injured on the job
 Chemical burn injuries
 Construction injuries
 Fire injuries
10 9 Assessing and Minimizing the Risks from Hazards
 Risk Concept and Terminology
 Risk assessment procedure
 Risk Metric’s
 Risk Estimation and Acceptability Criteria
11 10 Assessing and Minimizing the Risks from Hazards
 Principles of risk prevention
 Selection and implementation of appropriate Risk controls
 Hierarchy of controls
12 11 Preparing for Emergency Response Procedures
 Fire
 Chemical Spill
 First Aid
 Safety Drills / Trainings:
 o Firefighting
o Evacuation in case of emergency

13 12 Stress and Safety at Work Environment

 Workplace stress and sources
 Human reaction to workplace stress
 Measurement of workplace stress
 Shift work, stress and safety
 Improving safety by reducing stress
 Stress in safety managers
 Stress and workers compensation

14 13 Incident Investigation
 Importance of investigation
 Recording and reporting
 Techniques of investigation
 Monitoring
 Review
 Auditing Health and Safety

15 14 Engineers’ Responsibilities towards Safety and Risk:

Safety and the Engineer

Designing Rules for Safety
Risk-Benefit Analysis-Accidents.

16 Final Exams