SSE602 Evaluation of Safety Programs
Lead Faculty: Dr. Shekar Viswanathan
Course Description
Comprehensive coverage of occupational safety and health field concepts including new hazards in the workplace; proliferation of health and safety legislation; interest in ethics and corporate responsibility; work place safety; and product safety. Introduces concepts through case study analysis and provides
examples in developing a modern safety program.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop an easy safety checklist for doing safety audits.
- Train people in health and safety issues they will face on the job, and prepare them for prevention or correction.
- Develop reporting forms, enhanced enforcement policy; machine guarding and control of hazardous energy; Fire Standards; and Hazard Communication Standards.
- Conduct accident investigations on the types and causes of accidents and develop/policies /procedures to eliminate/avoid them.
