Courses persons responsible
Noora Hintikka

Implementations

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	2 h/week	2 h/week	-	-	-	-

(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
After the course the students will be able to define the main principles of occupational safety and health and understand their meaning in industry. The students should also be able to identify hazards at work and know basic corrective measures.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Legislation related to occupational safety. Safety management.
2.	Occupational accidents. Ergonomics and well-being at work.
3.	Industrial hygiene. Occupational health care.
4.	Corporate security.

Requirements for completing the course
During autumn term: taking part in the lectures, exercises and exam. During spring term: same as autumn term if enough participants.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Study material

Type	Name	Auhor	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability...	Exam material	Language
Lecture slides						Yes	English
-	Selected internet pages			http://turva.me.tut.fi/english/studies/courses/TUR-1010/weblinks		Yes	English

Prerequisites
Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Remarks

Students should take this introductory course before participating in other courses of occupational safety engineering (unless already studied at home university).

Distance learning

- In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
- In compiling teaching material, particularly for online use or other electronic media
- In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
- In the visualization of objects and phenomena, e.g. animations, demonstrations, simulations, video clips

Correspondence of content
3101000 Introduction to Safety Engineering

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Last modified	30.05.2007
Modified by	Heli Kiviranta