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Course code: BHS20206f14
Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Ergonomics in Animal Husbandry
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 20 / 0
Lecturer: dr Jacek Szczurowski dr inż. Mariusz Korczyński
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The 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 students

Learning 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: NON

Course 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 work

Recommended 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 1998

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