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References
Byrt, W.J. and Masters, PR. The Australian Manager. 2nd ed.
Melbourne: MacMillan. 1982
Corder, A.S. ~aintenance Management Techniques. London: McGraw
Hill, 1976
Cunningham, C.E. and Cox, W. Applied Maintainability Engineering.
NY: Wiley, Inter Science, 1972
Dhillon, B.S. and Reiche, H. Reliability and Maintainability
Management. N.Y.: Van Nostrand Rheinhold, 1985
Kelly, A. Maintenance Planning & Control. London: Butteworths,
1984
Moss, M.A. Designing for Minimal Maintenance Expense: The
practical application of Reliability and Maintainability NY: M. Dekker,
1985
MM551 D Occupational Risk
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: lectures and tutorials
Assessment: assignments
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to provide an exposure to topics in
occupational hygiene and associated risk engineering
methods for those students interested in occupational health
and safety issues.
Students are expected to research in depth one of the topic
areas discussed and to write a technical paper to a standard
acceptable for publication in one of the major occupational
health and safety periodicals.
The syllabus covers:
Occupational hygiene: methods and limitations of sampling
and measurement of contaminants, control aspects of
occupational hygiene.
Toxicology: routes of entry, dose-response relationships,
threshold limit values and other measures applied to
chemicals, noise, vibration and radiation.
Chemical hazards and effects: solvents, dusts, welding
fumes, heavy metals, sensitisation, cancer, respiratory and
other systemic effect; respiratory protection against dusts,
mists and vapours, equipment types, effectiveness and
program requirements.
Radiation: ionising and non-ionising, uses and applications,
2 damage-risk criteria, control methods.
- Biological hazards: Legionaire's diseae, zoonoses, AIDS.
2 bacterial infection, .. princiwals . and control.
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Engineering risk control for external energy sources, mobility
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3 of energy source and recipient, passive and active control,
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-. organisational requirements for control.
Engineering risk control for internal energy sources,
principals or organisational and technical controls.
Application of event synthesis techniques; machines,
processes.
Application of event analysis technique to a class of events,
application of fault tree analysis, machines, processes
capable of experiencing that class of events.
Machinely safeguarding design: legal principals and
requirements, design methodology.
Isolation procedures and work permit systems; definitions,
isolation and work permit procedure components, factors
influencing design, reliability of procedures.
Electrical safety: effects of electricity on the human body,
MEN electrical system, earth leakage circuitry breaker and
applications, EMR, spectral characteristics, effects on human
body elements.
Fire and explosion: principles and practices, ignition sources,
fuels, fire loading computations, detection and control,
codes of practice.
References
Atherley, G.R.C. Occupational Health and Safety Concepts -
Chemical and Processing Hazards. London: Applied Science,1978
Brown, D.B. Systems Analysis and Design for Sakry Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall. 1976
Cooper, W.F. Electrical Safety Engineering. 2nd ed. London:
Butteerwrth, 1986
Harrington. J.M. and Gill, F.S. Occupational Health. Oxford: Blackwell
Scientific Publications, 1983
Hertz 1D.B. Thomas Ltd. Risk Analyis and Its Applications. Chichester:
Wiley. 1983
International Study Group on Risk Analpis. Risk Analysis in the
Process Industries. Rugby: I.C.E., 1985
I CHEM E. Nomenclature for Hazard and Safety Handbook. Rugby:
The Institution of Chemical Engineers, 1985
McElroy, F.E. Accident Prevention Manual for Industrial Operations.
9th ed. Chicago: National Safety Council, 1988
Megill, R.E. An Introduction to Risk Analysis 2nd ed, Tulsa, Okla:
Pennwell, 1984
NIOSH. The lndustrial Environment, its Evaluation and Control.
Washington. D.C.: NIOSH, 1980
MM551 F Technology Modelling
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: lectures, workshop and project
consultations.
Assessment: project
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to introduce students to the methodology
and techniques for developing computer models in diverse
engineering technology disciplines.
Areas to be covered will be selected from: engineering
software design, systems effectiveness, risk modelling, and
expert srjtems in engineering.
The syllabus includes:
Engineering software design
Topics: software design process. Human computer interfaces,
computer generated sound, window, buttons, menus, icons,
navigation, help, hypertext, search techniques, use of colour,
screen layout. Computer manual design. Students will use a
high level software construction kit to generate an
ergonomically sound piece of engineering software.
Emphasis will be on high level design concepts.
Expert systems in engineering
Topics: the nature of expert systems. Applications of expert
systems to engineering. Knowledge bases, inferencing,
forward and backward chaining, rule set partitioning. Rule
and frame based systems, Lisp and Prolog. Students will use
an expert system shell to generate a run-time expert system
which captures some element of real engineering expertise.
Systems effectiwness
Topics: the nature of systems effectiveness; systems
effectiveness verses cost effectiveness; systems modelling,
model elements and their interrelations. Factor affecting
system effectiveness; management organisation utilisation,
reliability, maintainability, configuration, environment, logistic
support and administration. Optimisation of systems
effectiveness; reliability growth management, configuration
management, system modification and systems effectiveness
growth management.
Risk modelling
Topics: the nature of risk modelling and simulation. Use of
personal computers and software programs. Transfer of real
world data into computer simulations and models. Types of
available simulation, distributions and optimal choices for
specific modelling needs. Advanced simulations with
graphical interpretation of results. Communication of
conclusions to management.