Industrial safety engineering

VCET / BE – ME / RI to VIII SEMESTERS Page 109
16MEO03
INDUSTRIAL SAFETY ENGINEERING
L T PC
3 0 0 3
Objectives:
1. To identify, evaluate, and control workplace hazardous conditions and practices.
2. To develop effective safe operating procedures and comprehensive safety and health programs.
3. To address safety education and training in an effective manner.
4. To provide wide exposure to the students about various legislations applicable to an industrial unit.
Course Outcomes Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Explain the functions and activities of safety engineering department.
2. Carryout accident investigation, analysis and reporting.
3. Illustrate the use of critical thinking to identify and assess hazards in industries.
4. Discuss concepts of Safety Education and Training.
5. List out important legislations related to Health and Safety.
UNIT 1
SAFETY MANAGEMENT
8
Evaluation of modern safety concepts - Safety management functions - Safety department – Safety committee, Safety audit - Performance measurements and motivation – Employee participation in safety - Safety and productivity.
UNIT 2
ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION AND REPORTING
9
Concept of an accident - Reportable and non-reportable accidents, Reporting to statutory authorities – Principles of accident prevention – Accident investigation and analysis – Records for accidents, Departmental accident reports, Documentation of accidents – Unsafe act and condition – Supervisory role – Role of safety committee – Cost of accident.
UNIT 3
HAZARDS IN INDUSTRIES
10
Hazard - Classification - Chemical, physical, mechanical, ergonomic, biological hazards - Hazard evaluation techniques - Engineering control of hazards and accidents due to fire explosions in industries – Fertilizers - Petroleum refinery - Job safety analysis, Safety survey, Safety inspection, Safety sampling, - Fault tree analysis – Event tree analysis – Failure modes and effect analysis and Relative ranking techniques – Past accident analysis - Estimation of likelihood - Consequence analysis
– Risk estimation – Hierarchy of hazard control.
UNIT 4
SAFETY EDUCATION AND TRAINING
9
Types of organization -safety committee-safety council-safety education - First aid. Importance of training - identification of training needs - Training methods – programme, seminars, conferences, competitions – method of promoting safe practice - motivation – communication - role of government agencies and private consulting agencies in safety training.
UNIT 5
SAFETY, HEALTH,WELFARE AND LAWS

9
Safety and health standards - Industrial hygiene - occupational diseases prevention – Welfare facilities
- History of legislations related to Safety- Indian boiler act –SMPV rules- The environmental protection act - Electricity act - Explosive act – Factories act 1948 - OHSAS 18001:2007
TOTAL :45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. C. Ray Asfahl and David W.Rieske, Industrial safety and Health Management, Prentice Hall Inc, NewYork, 2010.
2. R.K.Mishra, Safety Management, AITBS Publishers India, 2012.
REFERENCES:
1. William Handley Mc, Industrial Safety Handbook, II Edn.., McGraw Hill Education, UK 2007.
2. Rolland P. Blake, Industrial Safety, Prentice Hall Inc, NewYork, 2009.
3. SK Sharma and Savitha Sharma, Industrial Engineering And Organization Management SK
Kataria & Sons, 2009.
e-RESOURCES:
1. http://nptel.ac.in/courses/112107143/40 Prof. Inderdeep Singh, IIT Roorkee, Industrial Safety
2. https://www.nsai.ie/getattachment/Our-Services/Certification/Management-Systems/OHSAS-
18001/MD-19-02-Rev-4--OHSAS-18001-Occupational-Health-and-Safety.pdf.aspx