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    This document provides an overview of a course on Health, Safety and Environment at Mirpur University of Science and Technology. The course aims to help students understand occupational health and safety, environmental pollution, and waste water treatment methods. It will cover ISO standards, safety measurements, and how to inspect and prevent occupational hazards. Students will learn through two textbooks, graded assessments including a midterm, quizzes and assignments, and a final exam. The first lecture introduces key concepts like occupational safety, hazards, risks, and accidents, and discusses common workplace accidents and the history of occupational health and safety legislation in Malaysia.

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    MIRPUR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MUST), MIRPUR

    DEPARMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY


    Health, Safety and Environment
    HSM-352

    Lecture 1: Introduction of the Course

    Engr. Iram Zahra

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, MUST

    Date: 23/11/2021
    COURSE DESCRIPTION

    Purpose of this course is to have the understanding about the


    Occupational Health, Safety and the Environmental impact on the health.
    The course will enable students to learn the importance of occupational
    safety measurements and how to inspect and prevent them, ISO standards
    for health and safety, factors of Environmental Pollutions and methods to
    avoid them and the waste-water treatment methods. This course will help
    student in their Practical role in an Industry.

    Health, Safety & Environment 3


    COURSE OBJECTIVES

    Objective of this course is to…


    • To understand occupational health and safety
    • To understand the ISO standards for the health, safety and Environment
    • To understand the environmental pollution and methods to control.
    • To understand the methods of waste-water treatment

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    COURSE TEXTBOOKS

    Book 1.. J. Ridley and J. Channing, Safety at Works, Routledge


    Book 2.. K. G. Lockyer, Factory & Production Management, Pitman Publishing.

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    GRADING POLICY

    Mid Term: 30 %

    Quizzes: 10 %

    Assignments: 10 %

    Final Exam: 50 %

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    Occupational Health & Safety

    Occupational safety and health (OSH) is a cross disciplinary area


    concerned with protecting the safety, health and welfare of people engaged
    in work or employment.

    The goals of occupational safety and health programs include to foster a


    safe and healthy work environment.

    OSH may also protect co-workers, family members, employers, customers


    and many others who might be affected by the workplace environment

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    Major Safety Terminologies
    Safe: The condition of being safe from undergoing and causing hurt, injury or loss
    Hazard: A hazard introduces the potential for an unsafe condition, possibly leading to an
    accident
    Risk: The probability or likelihood of hazard.
    Incident: Undesired circumstance that produces the potential for an accident
    Accident: An accident is unplanned event, which could result into persons, or in damage to
    plant and equipment or both.
    Accident cost: Accident cost includes medical payment, compensation, overtime for
    replacement workers, production delays, product or material damage, training of
    replacements, accident investigation cost, building or complex damages, equipment
    damages and business interruptions.

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    Types of Accidents
    The most frequent accidents in the workplace:

    • Fall and crushing


    • Manual handling
    • Workplace traffic accidents

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    History of Occupational Health & Safety (OHS)
    • Evolution of OSH Legislation in Malaysia
    • 1844 British legislation – specific safety and health
    • Piecemeal legislation and regulations for example transporting machinery on the
    train

    • 1972 Lords Roben “Committee of inquiry” – Robens Report on OSH


    • Factories and Machinery Act (139) in 1967
    • - Part II Safety, Health And Welfare – enforced 1970
    • Occupational Safety and Health Act (514) 1994

    Health, Safety & Environment 10


    THANKS

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