COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WORKPLACE SAFETY IN MINERALS INDUSTRY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISG 5026 WORKPLACE SAFETY IN MINERALS INDUSTRY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SEZAI ŞEN

Offered to

Occupational Healty and Safety(Non-Thesis-Evening)

Course Objective

The purpose of the course is highlighting the importance of risk assesment studies for limiting and controlling the hazards which may occur in the mineral processing unit operations. The course aims to make the students be able to conduct risk assesment and evaluation studies and take necessary precautions. Students will also be aware of legal responsibilities and competencies for engineers about safety risks in minerals industry.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define and classify the risks and workplace safety issues in mineral processing plants
2   To recognize the importance of the improvements in workplace safety management processes in minerals industry
3   To identify safety hazards and environmental aspects and risks in minerals industry
4   To organize the work teams and individuals to achieve their objectives
5   To investigate and evaluate safety and environmental accidents and incidents in minerals industry
6   To conduct safety and environmental risk assessments in mineral processing plants
7   To implement and manage effective safety and environmental systems in Mineral processing plants
8   To recognize the responsibilities and competencies for mining engineers about safety risks and environmental aspects in mineral processing plants

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Workplace safety laws and regulations
2 The importance of workplace safety in minerals industry, general definitions
3 National and international laws and regulations covering workplace safety risks, and hazards in minerals industry.
4 Risk management process (identifying, analyzing and evaluation)
5 Risk assessment techniques
6 Risk assessment techniques
7 Risk assessment techniques
8 Midterm exam
9 Workplace safety at the comminution and classification plants
10 Workplace safery at the plants involving physical and physicochemical processes
11 Workplace safety at leaching plants
12 Assessment of risk management procedures in the comminution and classification plants using sample scenarios (Student presentations)
13 Assessment of risk management procedures in the plants involving physical and physicochemical processes on sample scenarios (Student presentations)
14 Assessment of risk management procedures in leaching plants on sample scenarios (Student presentations)

Recomended or Required Reading

-Aswathanarayana, U, (2005), Mineral Resources Management and the Environment, Taylor & Francis.
Asfahl, C.R., (2003). Industry safety and health management, Pearson Education Inc., USA.
-Külahçıoğlu, G. (1996). Iş Güvenliği, DEÜ Müh. Fak. Basım Ünitesi, No:49, Izmir.
-Bahr, N.J. (1997). System Safety Engineering and Risk Assesment: A Practical Approach, Taylor&Francis, USA.
-Bayır, M. & Ergül, M. (2006). Iş Güvenliği, Alfa Aktüel Yayınları, s:213, Bursa.
-Department of Resources, (2008) Energy and Tourism, Risk assessment and management, Commonwealth of Australia.
-Graedel, T., Howard-Grenville, J., (2005), Greening the Industrial Facility, Springer, Germany.
-Hale, A. &Baram, M. (1998). Safety Management The Challenge of Change, Pergamon, Netherlands.
- Joy, J and Griffiths, D., (2007), National minerals industry safety and health risk assessment guideline, Department of Industry and Investment, NSW.
-Mol, T. (2003). Productive safety management, Elseiver, Oxford.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, case studies, scenarios

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 * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO1-3, 8: 1 will be evaluated by the mid-term exam
LO3-8: will be evaluated by assignments
LO1-3 ve 5-8: will also be evaluated by final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students are obligated to prepare an assignment.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assist. Prof. Dr. Sezai Şen
sezai.sen@deu.edu.tr, office phone: (232) 301 7543

Office Hours

: It will be announced at the beginning of the semester

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Quiz etc. 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 142

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.1542
LO.24
LO.343
LO.443
LO.5422
LO.63
LO.744322
LO.8432

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