Safety Health & Environment
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The official GTU curriculum for Safety Health & Environment (subject code 2173508) as prescribed for Env. Sci. Tech · Semester 7 divides the course into 4 units, covering 16 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2173508)Unit 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- The importance of health and safety
- what accidents and work-related ill- health are, and why they occur. Why the welfare of people at work is important. The approximate annual number of reported work related deaths, and injuries
- which occur to people at, work in India, and the approximate costs involved. The meaning of: Hazard
- Dangerous occurrence
Unit 2 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
- The causes of work related ill health and the steps to control and prevent it. The appropriate measures to control the hazards associated with work related ill health including:- (a) Noise (b) Repetitive strain injury(RSI) (c) Display screen equipment (DSE) (d) Viral and bacterial infections e.g. legionnaires disease
Unit 3 PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
- Outcomes The different types of PPE and the hazards against which they provide protection
- FIRE Outcomes: The dangers associated with fire. The “fire triangle” and the three conditions required for fire to start and continue to burn. The need for provision of adequate methods of raising the alarm, and routes of escape in the event of fire
Unit 4 PRINCIPLES OF ACCIDENTS PREVENTION
- Definition Incident
- dangerous occurrences
- unsafe acts
- unsafe conditions
- mistakes, etc
- Accident Prevention : Theories / Models of accident occurrences. Principles of accident prevention. Accident and Financial implications. Hazard identification and analysis. Fault tree analysis. Event tree analysis. Failure modes and effects analysis. HAZOP studies Job safety analysis - examples Plant safety inspection - objectives and types check procedure inspection report
- Environmental Issues Related to safety & Health Environmental Risks and the Disease Burden
- Improving the Household Environment
- Water Quality and Health
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