ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code:
BHS20206f14Semester:
2014/2015 summerName:
Ergonomics in Animal HusbandryMajor:
Animal ScienceStudy Type:
second cycleCourse type:
optionalStudy Semester:
1ECTS points:
3Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other):
15 / 20 / 0Lecturer:
dr Jacek Szczurowski dr inż. Mariusz KorczyńskiLanguage of instruction:
Polish / EnglishThe course taught in English if the group has ≥6 students. The course taught in Polish with a possibility of support in English if the group has <6 studentsLearning outcomes:
Knowledge: Student knows the research objectives and methodology of occupational health and safety and ergonomics; knows functional determinants of system: man-machine and human - environment; student
indicates the source of the biological cost of work and its impact on the level of fatigue; student defines the factors material environment of work and their impact on productivity, health workers and the risk of accidents at work; student knows the potential health effects caused by chemical, biological and physical factors at work.
Skills: student performs measurements parameters of the working environment in order to evaluate the ergonomic adaptation of workplaces; student use the diagnostic techniques to assess the level of occupational risk and biological work load.Competences:
Student is aware of the risks in incorrectly designed environment of work; student correctly forms place of work.Prerequisites:
NONCourse content:
Directions of contemporary research of ergonomics, corrective and conceptual ergonomic, types of ergonomic diagnoses, source of biological cost of work, factors of physical environment of work, anthropometric data - the basis for the design workplaces, ergonomic of mental workRecommended literature:
Wykowska M.: Ergonomia, Wyd. AGH, Kraków, 1994
Kordecka D.: Bezpieczeństwo pracy i ergonomia, Wyd. CIOP, Warszawa, 1997;
Olszewski J.: Podstawy ergonomii i fizjologii pracy, Wyd. AE w Poznaniu, Poznań, 1998
Tytyk E.: Projektowanie ergonomiczne, Wyd. Nauk. PWN, Warszawa 2001
Pheasant S.: „Bodyspace – anthropometry, ergonomic and the design of work”. Taylor&Francis 1996
Górska E., Tytyk E.: Ergonomia w projektowaniu stanowisk pracy : podstawy teoretyczne; Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Warszawskiej, Warszawa 1998Assessment methods:
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