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Safety at Workplace
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TOPICS TO BE COVERED

LECTURE 1

Introduction to Safety at Work

a) Basic Definitions
b) Health, Welfare, and Work Environment Requirements
c) Minimum Welfare Standards at workplace

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Health and Safety Standards at workplace

a) Barriers to good standards of health and safety
b) Reasons for maintain and promoting HSE standards in organization.

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Personnel responsibilities towards HSE

a) Employers responsibilities
b) Workers responsibilities
Safety and health management system

HSE Culture in an organization

a) Positive Culture
b) Negative Culture
c) Indicators used to assess organization safety culture
d) Identification of Client and Contractor
e) Identification of Attitude, Competence, and Motivation
f) Perception of risk
g) Factors that distort ones perception
h) Ways of improving perception

Training need analysis

a) Training record keeping
b) Evaluation training effectiveness
c) Emergency procedures
d) Importance of developing emergency procedures

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First Aid
a) First Aid requirement
b) Role, training and number of first aiders
c) Requirements for first aide boxes and facilities
d) First aid equipment

Risk Assessment
a) Objectives of risk assessment
b) Different types of incidents
c) Carrying out risk assessment
d) Safety signs
e) Personal Protective Equipment
f) Developing safe system of work (SSW)

Confined Space
a) Work in confined space
b) Confined space principles
c) Factors to be consider while work in a confined space

Permit to Work (PTW)

a) Definition of PTW
b) Sections of PTW
Effects of Exposure
a) Hot environment effects on health
b) Control measures for working in a hot environment
c) Cold environment effects on health
d) Control measures for working in a cold environment

Slip, Trip and Fall

a) Slip hazards
b) Trip hazards
c) Fall hazards (Fall from Height)
d) Control measures for these hazards
e) Various issues to be consider

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Storage of Chemical and Flammables

Work at height

Hazards from workplace transport

a) Non-moving related hazards
b) Vehicle collision
c) Forklift overturning
d) Mobile crane toppling
e) Pre use checks for vehicles,
f) Parking rules
g) Control measure for minimising collision, overturning, toppling

Manual Handling
a) Common types of hazards and injury
b) Manual lifting techniques
c) Minimizing the manual handling risk
Mechanical and non-mechanical hazards
Mechanical Hazards
a) Crushing
b) Shearing
c) Entanglement
d) Cutting
e) Drawing in or Trapping
f) Impact
g) Friction
h) Puncture
Non- Mechanical Hazards
a) Electricity
b) Noise
c) Viberation
d) Hazardous substances
e) Ionising radiation
f) Extreme temperature
g) Fire and explosion

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Control Measures for Mechanical Hazards

Electricity
a) Principles of electricity
b) Hazards of electricity
c) Causes of portable electric equipment accident
d) High risk activities
e) Emergency procedure for electric accident
f) Inspections of a portable appliances

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Fire
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)

Fire basic principle

Classification of Fire
Identification of Extinguishers
Portable Extinguishers which commonly used at workplaces
Method of Fire Spread
Common causes of workplace fire

Fire
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b)
c)
g)
h)

Controlling of source of ignition

Safe storage and uses of flammable liquids
Evacuation of workplace during Fire emergency
Requirements for means of escape
Assembly Points

Chemical and Biological health hazards and control measures

a) Form of Chemical agents
b) Form of biological agents
c) Acute and Chronic effects
d) Route of Entry (AGENTS)

Noise
a) Effects of Noise
b) Terminologies
c) Control Measure of Noise at workplace

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LECTURE 19
Revision of First 9 lectures
LECTURE 20
Revision of Last 9 lectures

TEACHING METHODOLOGY
Classroom lectures associate with tutorial exercises and homework and assignments.
ASSESMENT:
The course will include at least three (3) one hour tests (Quiz) during the course in
addition to assignments at end of each module may be set. A comprehensive final
examination covering all the topics, of at least 3:00 hours duration, will be set at the end
of the course. Evaluation will be based and student grades will be based on the following
factors.

Assignments
One hour Quiz (3)
Mid-term Exam
Final Exam
Total

Document
Code

Diploma of Drilling
Engineering

Course Code

Course Title

Safety At
Workplace

10%
15%
25%
50%
100%

Prepared
By

Name

Adnan Khan

Date

13/09/2015

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Approved
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Date

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