COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SAFETY CULTURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISG 2013 SAFETY CULTURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Occupational Health and Safety

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR GONCA DOĞRU

Offered to

Occupational Health and Safety

Course Objective

This course aims to inform concepts and main characteristics of work safety, work accident, organisation culture and safety culture; to help for improving safety culture in the workplace; to examine work safety emprically by giving information to studenst about safety culture in Turkey and in the World.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to use the notions of work safety and safety culture.
2   Learn to contract between safety culture and organisation culture.
3   Learn to examine the effect of safety culture on safety performance.
4   To be able analyze work safety practices in the world.
5   To be able know the academic studies on work safety culture in Turkey.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Examining the concept of work safety
2 Examining occupational diseases and work accident (models and concepts).
3 Reviewing the concept of organizational culture.
4 Examining the concept of organizational climate
5 Analyzing the concept of safety culture
6 1. Midterm
7 Examining safety culture models
8 Examining the concept of safety performance
9 Analyzing concepts of safety communication, safety training, and safety participation
10 Examining effects of safety culture on safety performance
11 Examining the relation between safety culture and safety climate
12 2. Midterm
13 Analyzing work safety culture in the World and in Turkey
14 General assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

Materials to be used for the course will be provided by the course the teachers.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. DVD, video etc.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MT1 1.MIDTERM
2 MT2 2.MIDTERM
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MT1 * 0.20 +MT2*0.20+FINS * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MT1 * 0.20 +MT2*0.20+RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

It is calculated by taking 40% average grade of Midterm exams, 60% of the final exam success rating.

Assessment Criteria

The understanding degree of students to 5 learning outputs is evaluated by midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1.70% of participation in the courses is mandatory
2.All kinds of plagiarism (cheating) initiative, and the actual results in disciplinary action

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Öğr. Gör. Gonca DOĞRU
gonca.dogru@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced later.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 2 5 10
Preparation for final exam 1 11 11
Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18PO.19
LO.15
LO.232
LO.332
LO.44
LO.54

CONTACT INFORMATION
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