040-0610/01 – Working Environment (PPrst)
Gurantor department | Department of Occupational and Process Safety | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Lucie Kocůrková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Veronika Brancová Hase |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2021/2022 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
A. Define and interpret the requirements of legal and other regulations to ensure OSH in the area of occupational health.
B. Define the risk factors of work environment and discuss their impact on workers' health.
C. Apply appropriate procedures and methods for measuring selected risk factors.
D. Interpret the measurement results for health risk assessment purposes.
E. Process and discuss data for the occupational health risk assessment.
F. Characterize, propose, discuss and defend prevention strategies and tools.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Project work
Summary
This course introduces students to the broad principles of occupational hygiene as a discipline of anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of hazards that can be encountered in the workplace. Through lectures and practical exercises, students will gain knowledge and skills for measurement of exposure to some key risk factors (chemical, physical, biological and ergonomic). The course will introduce the health risk assessment framework incl. control banding tools and the principles of prevention and reduction of health risks. Specific measures to protect occupational health will be discussed. As part of semester project, students will acquire practical skills in assessing health risks and proposing measures to prevent health risks.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
John Cherrie, Sean Semple, Marie Coggins. Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work, 5th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-119-61496-8.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Forma ověření studijních výsledků je kombinovaná, a to jak ústní, tak písemná. Student dále v rámci předmětu zpracovává semestrální práci, kterou také prezentuje na cvičení.
E-learning
Other requirements
At least 70 % attendance at seminars. Absence of a maximum of 30% must be excused and the excuse must be accepted by the teacher (the teacher decides on the justification of the excuse). Continuous submission of tasks assigned to the exercises in terms set by the teacher.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Basic terms, legal regulations, factors of occupational environment, their basic characteristics and specifics
2. Hygiene limit values, legal framework for the assessment of the degree of risk of occupational disease, basic conditions of work categorization
3. Definition of ergonomics, basic ergonomic concepts, criteria and parameters of ergonomic evaluation of work systems
4. Dust, characterization, specifics, health impact, prevention
5. Chemicals, characterization, specifics, health impact, prevention
6. Noise, characterization, specifics, health impact, prevention
7. Vibration, characterization, specifics, health impact, prevention
8. Non-ionizing radiation, ionizing radiation and electromagnetic field, characterization, specifics, health impact, prevention
9. Thermal and cold load, characterization, specifics, health impact, prevention
10. Physical load and working position, characterization, specifics, health impact, prevention
11. Visual and mental stress, characterization, specifics, health impact, prevention
12. Biological agents, characterization, specifics, health impact, prevention
13. Work at elevated air pressure, characterization, specifics, health impact, prevention, space requirements for the workplace
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction