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Course code: BHS20206o15Semester: 2015/2016 summer
Name: Ergonomics in Animal Husbandry
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr Jacek Szczurowski dr hab. 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
Assessment methods: One written test to assess the current rating (based on written reports) progress in science and activity. Attendance at the exercises is obligatory; student can only have one unexcused absence. In the absence excused student is required to pass the relevant part of the material. Pass classes based on the average ratings written test after semester;(30 closed questions). Assessment takes 60 minutes. Minimum 60% of knowledge to pass.
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