542-0373/04 – Safety at Work and Fire Protection (BPaPO)
| Gurantor department | Department of Mining Engineering and Safety | Credits | 8 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Mária Jarolimová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Alois Adamus, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2002/2003 | Year of cancellation | 2011/2012 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The goal of the subject is to create the ability of students to understand and interpret learned information in the field of labour safety and fire protection.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Project work
Summary
The course deals with key issues in the field of occupational health and safety, occupational hygiene and fire protection. It provides a general overview of the principles of safe work and acquaints the students with legislation on health and safety at work. It explains the risks of the working environment, their effects, assessment and minimization in the working environment, including the risks of major accidents and industrial accidents. Furthermore, students obtain the necessary information from the field of fire protection, organization of fire protection units, their intervention activities, technical equipment and fire prevention.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
eassy,test
E-learning
Other requirements
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
The course addresses core issues in health and safety, hygiene and fire
protection. Provides a general overview of the principles of safe work and introduces
students with the legislation governing health and safety and hygiene. It explains the risks
working environment, their influence, assessing and minimizing the work
environment, including risk of serious accidents and industrial accidents. Furthermore,
Students receive relevant information from the field of fire protection organizations
fire brigades and their intervention activities, equipment and
fire prevention.
1st Primary generally binding regulations on OSH
2nd The text of the Labour Code regulating occupational health and safety
3rd Hygiene requirements for working environment, an overview of risk
4th Hygiene requirements for the composition of the atmosphere at the workplace, authorized
concentrations of toxic
gases in the workplace
5th The risk of aerosols without toxic effects on work related
physiological
risk concentration allowed
6th The risk of noise and vibration, the maximum permissible levels of noise and vibration
Work Environment
7th Risk of inadequate lighting facilities, standardized values
8th Categorization of work, payment for work in difficult working environment
9th Accidents at work, sources and causes, responsibilities of employers
working
injuries, prevention
10th Fire protection, organization, training, equipment and activities, emergency units
Fire Protection
11th Fire Prevention
1912 Flammability of materials, fire agents technical characteristics
13th Combustion products, risks, effects on the human organism.
14th Extinguishing agents, portable extinguishers
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction