COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BIOMEDICAL LABORATORY AND PROCESS SAFETY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BMT 0613 BIOMEDICAL LABORATORY AND PROCESS SAFETY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR SAYIT SARGIN

Offered to

Industrial Ph.D. Program In Advanced Biomedical Technologies

Course Objective

It is aimed to define the safety and health concepts in biomedical technology facilities such as laboratories, production plants and to use the necessary tools and methods for determining risk and hazard places to better planning of emergency systems and actions according to the given national and international regulations and standards by use of engineering principles.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to have a knowledge about basic concepts of safety in laboratories and production plants.
2   Ability to understand physical, chemical and biological hazards.
3   To undertsand the definition of toxicity and its impact in biological and chemical systems.
4   Ability to take necessary precautions against potential physical, chemical and biological risks.
5   Ability to understand the emergency safety systems in a process unit. Ability to determine risk points. Ability to make necessary engineering calculations regarding to risk points.
6   Ability to select necessary safety systems for a given process system.
7   Ability to evaluate the general safety precautions by using engineering approach againts chemical or biological leakages. Ability to prepare action plans against emergency situations.
8   To have a kwowledge about national and international safety regulations. Ability to apply such knowledge on new technological developments

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition of process safety, laboratoary safety imprtance and basic principles.
2 Laboratory safety in Biomedical process facilities
3 Physical and chemical risks and hazards. (ordinary hazards, electricity hazards, acute toxicity, chronic toxcity). Safety measures against chemical hazards. MSDS forms.
4 Safety inspections and data recording.
5 Chemical leakages and neutralisation procedures.
6 Biological hazards, biological risks in laboratories.
7 Biosafety levels. The important characteristics of BSL-1, BSL-2 and BSL-3 laboratories.
8 Midterm Exam
9 Hazards from pressure tanks and cryogenic materials. Necessary precautions against the risks.
10 Fire hazards, preventive measures, emergency systems .
11 Safety systems in bioreactors, ovens pressure tanks, pipelines and other supporting facilities.
12 Engineering calculations about safety systems in bioreactors, ovens pressure tanks, pipelines and other supporting facilities.
13 National and international regulations on safety. Risk assessment methodologies.
14 Homework presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Sanders, R.E., Chemical Process Safety-Lerning from Case Histories Butterworth-Heinemann, (1999). Macdonald, D., Practical Industrial Safety, Risk Assessment, and Shutdown Systems Elsevier Science and Technology Books, (2004). Furr, K., CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety , CRC press, (2000). Lunn, G. and Sonsone, E., Destruction of Hazardous Chemicals in the Laboratory , (1994). Mahan, W. J., "Fundamentals of Laboratory Safety", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, (1991). Sargın, S., Gürhan, I., Laboratuvar Güvenliği Kılavuzu ., Ege Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Biyomühendislik Bölümü, Bornova (2008). Strickoff and Walters, Handbook of Laboratory Health and Safety , John Wiley, (1995).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Project and exams

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 1 4 4
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Design Project 1 30 30
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 106

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.1233
LO.24
LO.3555
LO.42
LO.5333
LO.62
LO.72
LO.8

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