May 25, 2024  
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NUCL 5090G - Occupational Health and Safety


This course explores the often neglected, although highly important, subject of occupational health and safety as it relates to industrial operations and complex processes. Concepts such as hazard avoidance, health and environmental control, machine guarding, electrical hazards and process safety will be discussed. In addition, management and institutional controls for workplace safety will be considered, such as communicating vital information, pre-task briefings and shift turnovers. Case studies and lessons learned from numerous industrial and manufacturing industry accidents will be used to highlight important information.
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate courses in physics, differential equations and statistics.



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