College of Health and Human Services School of Health Sciences
EH 457:Environmental Health Planning and Administration
Offered in Fall
Industrial Safety and Health Management
Prerequisites: None; General understanding of physics and algebra will be helpful.
Required Texts:
29CFR Part 1900 to end. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) General Industry Standards. Latest edition (revised: July, 2000)
**All of the required standards to be covered are available free of charge off the internet at: www.osha.gov. Students are strongly encouraged to purchase the actual code book in order to facilitate study and continuity with lecture material; otherwise, students should be prepared to printout salient citations from the OSHA web site for possible use on a take-home exam.
Safety and Health for Engineers American Society of Safety Engineers, Roger L. Brauer.
Suggested References:
Accident Prevention Manuals for Industry Vol. 2: Engineering and Technology. National Safety Council
Course Description: Various prevention strategies to reduce or eliminate occupational accidents will be covered, including topics in administrative controls, personal protective equipment controls, and engineering practices. There will be a heavy focus on compliance with OSHA laws and regulations.
General topics to be covered include:
· Tenets of environmental health and safety with respect to general industry
· Administrative controls associated with the industry hazards
· Fire safety and prevention practices
· Machine safety and guarding
· Scaffolding
· Risk management
· Confined spaces
· Electrical safety
· Walking and working surfaces
· Industrial trucks
· Hazardous energy control techniques
· Safety and health program management
Course Objectives: Provide a clear understanding of course materials, so that students are conversant with the OSHA standards and laws (or can easily find salient code references) and can communicate regulatory requirements to supervisors and management. Teach students how to establish and conduct comprehensive safety programs as well as how to handle an OSHA inspection and negotiate settlements.
Course Format: Lectures, discussion, demonstrations of applied tools, problem solving through conducting a safety inspection followed by student presentation of findings.
Attendance: Each student is expected to attend class and will be held responsible for material content as presented in class, including syllabus changes and assignments made by the instructor in class. Grade disputes will be considered with respect to the student's attendance record. Attendance will be recorded on an official sign-in sheet. Students failing to meet the mandatory attendance requirements for the OSHA 30-hour course curriculum will not be issued an official OSHA course completion card under any circumstances, but will still receive a course grade.
Presentations: Each student must give a 10-15 minute oral presentation based on the results of a safety inspection he or she has conducted. Any material presented should be part of a handout package for other students and the instructor. Grading of the presentation will be made on the basis of accuracy and depth of research on topic, content quality, presentation of material, and professional timeliness (see evaluation form at end of this handout). The presentation will be worth 15% of the student's final course grade.
Grading and testing: Grades will be assigned per the OU catalog (4 point scale). There will be four in-term exams and a comprehensive final exam (5 tests total). Each in-term exam will be worth 15% of the course grade, the comprehensive final will be worth 25%, with the remaining 15% of points allocated to the presentations. No make-up exams will be offered unless special circumstances apply.
Grading: per catalog (12 point scale). Generally, grades will be assigned as follows:
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Grading Criteria |
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Numeric Points Earned |
Alpha Grade |
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94-100 |
A |
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90-93 |
A- |
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87-89 |
B+ |
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84-86 |
B |
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80-83 |
B- |
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77-79 |
C+ |
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74-76 |
C |
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70-73 |
C- |
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67-69 |
D+ |
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64-66 |
D |
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63-60 |
D- |
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< 60 |
L |
Review Questions: Questions have been assigned by the instructor for each segment of the class (i.e., each topic). The purpose for answering these questions is to help the student learn the material as well as prepare for exams. Review question answers will not be collected or graded, but will typically be covered in class. Review questions may appear on exams.
Class Schedule
| Week | Topic | Brauer Chs (videos) | CFR | Review Q?s |
| 1 |
Overview of Applied Safety Hazardous Materials |
1,2,3 |
Intro, 5(a)(1) 2 29CFR1903.1-.8, .14, .16 29CFR 1910.1-6, VTO 1244 |
1.1; 2.2, 2.3; 3.2, 3.3, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.18, 3.19 |
| 2 | Hazardous Materials | 1 1910.106 tables | ||
| Fire Protection, Egress |
1910.35-.38
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| Basic Fire Safety | 16 | 1910.155, .157, .159, .164 | 16.2, 16.5, 16.6, 16.9, 16.22, 16.26, 16.27 | |
| 3 | EXAM I | |||
| Electric Safety | 1910.301-.303 | |||
| Electric Hazards and Controls |
12 ST01245 |
.304(a)-(e); .305(g) .331-.334; .333(a)-(b)
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12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.13, 12.15, 12.18, 12.20 | |
| 4 | LOTO | 1910.147 | ||
| Confined Space | Permit required confined space. | 1910.146 | ||
| PPE | 24.7,28 | 1910.132-.133, 1910.135-.139 |
28.3, 28.4, 28.7 a, b, g, h, k, l, m, n, o, s, t, v, y, bb,
cc.
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| 5 | EXAM 2 | |||
| Materials Handling | 15, cranes, hoists, forklifts | 1910.178, skim .179 | 15.5, 15.6, 15.7, 15.8, 15.9, 15.10, 15.12 | |
| 6 | Walking/Working Surfaces | 1910.21-.26; skim .27-.28 | ||
| Powered Platforms; Lifts | 11, Floor Holes, Slips, Falls, Prev.Elev. Sur | Skim 1910.66,.67,.68 | 11.1, 11.11.5, 11.8, 11.10, 11.13, 11.14, 11.18 | |
| 7 | EXAM 3 | |||
| Machine Guarding | 1910.211-.212 | |||
| Portable/Hand Tools | 13, Machine Guarding | 1910.215 (a, b only); .217 (a-c, e, g); .241-.244 | 13.10, 13.12, 13.13, 13.15, 13.16, 13.17, 13.21, 13.24. | |
| 8 | Welding, Cutting, Brazing | 1910.251, .252, .254, .255 | ||
| Signage, Notices, Postings | 1910.253 (a,b,e) | |||
| Blood Borne Pathogens | 20,26, Weld, braze, signs | 1910.144, 145, .151 | 20.1, 20.2, 20.4, 20.5, 20.9-20.12, 26.2, 26.4-.7 | |
| 9 | EXAM 4 | |||
| Record Keeping | 1904.1-.12, .15 | |||
| Risk Management | 6 | OSHA Forms 200, 100 | 6.1, 6.4, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.14, 6.15 | |
| 10 | S/H Program Management | 1910.261-.272 | ||
| PRESENTATIONS | ||||
| PRESENTATIONS |
**Final Exam will be per official OU exam schedule and will be comprehensive**