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Risk
No. of h~urs'~er 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
g, vapours, equipment types, effectiveness and program
5. requirements.
!? Radiation: ionising and non-ionising, uses and applications,
S damage-risk criteria, control methods.
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C. Biological hazards: Legionaire's disease, zoonoses, AIDS,
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bacterial infection, principals and control.
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;n Engineering risk control for external energy sources, mobility of
3 energy source and recipient, passive and active control,
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2 organisational requirements for control.
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%-. Engineering risk control for internal energy sources, principals
or organisational and technical controls.
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2 Application of event synthesis techniques; machines,
a processes.
. Application of event analysis technique to a class of events,
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3 application of fault tree analysis, machines, processes capable
of experiencing that class of events.
Machinery 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 Safety. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J., Prentice Hall, 1976
Cooper, W.F. Electrical Safety Engineering. 3rd edn, London,
Butterworth, 1993
Harrington, J.M. and Gill, F.S. Occupational Health. Oxford, Blackwell
Scientific Publications, 1983
Hertz, D.B. and Thomas. H. Risk Analysis and Its Applications.
Chichester, Wiley, 1983
International Study Group on Risk Analysis. Risk Analyss in the
Process Industries. Rugby, I.C.E., 1985
Institution of Chemical Engineers. Nomenclature for Hazard and Safety
Handbook. Rugby, The lnstitution of Chemical Engineers, 1985
McElroy, F.E. Accident Prevention Manual for lndustrial Operations. 9th
edn, Chicago, National Safety Council. 1988
Megill, R.E. An Introduction to Risk Analysis. 2nd edn, Tulsa, Okla.,
Pennwell. 1984
~ational institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The lndustrial
Environment, its Evaluation and Control. 3rd edn. Washington, D.C.,
NIOSH, 1973
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Technology Modelling
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: lectures, workshop and project
consultations.
Assessment: project and examination
Subject aims and description
This subiect aims to develo~ abilities in the art of creatina
mathematical models of te;hnological systems. The subject will
focus on the methodologies associated with the creation of
mathematical models.
Topics covered includes:
The art of modelling: mathematical and physical modelling. An
introduction to the tools; materials; technique and process of
modelling.
Fundamentals of modelling and diagnostics.
The modelling process: needs, objectives, understanding
phenomena, literature, systems and subsystems, refinement,
verification and communication; modelling materials:
fundamental physical laws, constitutive rdations, equations of
engineering science, derived formulae, constraints, sources.
Building techniques: objectives, failure models; system
diagrams; decomposing into subsystems; parameter
bookkeeping; . - assembling - the system and dimensional
reasoning.
Refinement techniques: aesthetics; dimension checking;
comparing magnitudes; analysing sensitivity and verifying
results.
Modelling techniques in thermo-fluids engineering: theoretical
and experimental; predictive; computational; experimental
methods; dimensional analysis and similitude; engineering
decisions in modelling and power plants, bolter design and
hydraulic plants.