ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue

Course details
Course code: MRS10004o12
Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Ergonomics, Work Safety and Autor`s Rights
Major: Plant Medicine
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Józef Cież
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Explains the role of ergonomics in designing of safety and comfortable work places . Shows types of hazard that are present on work places. Knows the influence of dangerous factors that are present at work on human body. Associates types of hazard with their potential consequences shows types of works that are the subjects of author`s rights.

Competences: Has an awareness of significance of work conditions for health and safety of working people and for company . Predicts the consequences of illegal using of foreign intellectual property.

Prerequisites: Mathematics, Physics, Human biology on the high school level

Course content: Ergonomics as an interdisciplinary science. Human – Machine System. Geometry of work places. Thermal and atmospheric work environment. Noise. Vibration. Physical and psychical work loading. Chemical and biological hazards at a work places. Occupational stress. Accidents hazards. Authors` rigths

Recommended literature: Bezpieczeństwo Pracy i Ergonomia, CIOP Warszawa 1997 Krause M., Ergonomia. Praktyczna wiedza o pracującym człowieku i jego środowisku. Śląska Organizacja Techniczna, Katowice 1992.

Assessment methods: test,

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