ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: NTSS10137o11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: Ergonomics and Work Safety. Authors` Rights
Major: Food Technology and Nutrition
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Józef Cież
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student has knowledge about rules of designing of work places existing in working environment of food industry with regarding of physical and psychical limitations of working people understanding of kinds and character hazards to health and safety of people who perform different work in food industry and particularly physical, chemical, biological and accident hazards.
Competences: After the course student is able to localize and to assess a level of hazards concerned with work places in food industry as to find a measure for their reducing or eliminate as well.
Prerequisites: Physics, Chemistry, Mechanics, Human Biology
Course content: Ergonomics as an interdisciplinary science. Ergonomics and agricultural engineering. Geometry of work places. Signal and control devices on machines. Lighting at work. Thermal and atmospheric work environment. Noise. Vibration. Physical and psychical work loading. Chemical and biological hazards at a work places. Accidents hazards in food industry. Authors` rigths.
Recommended literature: 1.Bezpieczeństwo Pracy i Ergonomia, Praca zbiorowa pod red. D. Koradeckiej, CIOP Warszawa 1997. 2.Krause M., Ergonomia. Praktyczna wiedza o pracującym człowieku i jego środowisku, Katowice 1992.
Assessment methods: Examine (Test).
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