542-0373/20 – Safety at Work and Fire Protection (BPaPO)
| Gurantor department | Department of Mining Engineering and Safety | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Mária Jarolimová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Mária Jarolimová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor, Follow-up 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
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Individual consultations
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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
active involvement of students in teaching, elaboration of a semester work on a topic in the field of occupational safety or fire protection, a written test to verify knowledge of the issues discussed
E-learning
Other requirements
eelaboration of a given topic in the form of a presentation and its defense, compulsory participation in a professional excursion
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1.Introduction to the subject „Occupational safety and fire protection“. Basic concepts. History of occupational safety. Types of partial safety and its characteristics. Current concept of OSH. Occupational safety. Rights and duties of employees in occupational safety.
2. Education and training for health and safety, types of training, periods of training. Professional consultants of the employer in the field of OHS. Qualified person in risk prevention.
3.Accidents at work. Definition of work injury. Procedure for solving and compensation of work injury, compensation of damages, exemption of employer's liability for the damage incurred.
4. Problems of work risks. Risk management. Search, evaluate and eliminate risks.
5. Categorization of work and workplaces, risk factors, risky work. Health problems and occupational diseases.
6.Personal protective equipment, classification and specification of PPE. Technical requirements for PPE, use and maintenance of PPE.
7.Documentation of health and safety at work. Safety and workplace signs. Rules for the placement of safety signs at the workplace. Tasks and authorizations of state professional supervision bodies and organizations.
8. Influence of human factor on work process safety. Work ability of man. Neuropsychic characteristics of workers and possibilities of its influence. Work and rest mode to safety level.
9. Occupational health and safety management system in the company - a tool for implementation of security system.
Emergency events, emergency plan, its nature and content. Accident reporting. Emergency planning.
10. Legislation in the field of fire protection. Basic duties of all “entrepreneurs” in the field of fire protection. Obligations of natural persons in the field of fire protection.
11. Fire protection training. Types of training, training periods. Professional consultants of the employer in the field of fire protection.
12.The process of burning. Combustion products, risks, effects on human organism. What to do in case of fire, rules of conduct in case of fire.
13. Physical means of fire protection. Distribution of material assets of fire protection. Fire prevention classes. Preventive educational activities, the most common cause of fire in the home, the most common cause of fire in nature.
14.Documentation of fire protection. Description of individual types of fire protection documentation. Integrated rescue system of the Czech Republic and its components. Intervention of IRS in liquidation of extraordinary events.
Conditions for subject completion
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