Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

OSH

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	040-0559/02
Abbreviation	BOZP
Course title	OSH
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Occupational and Process Safety
Course coordinator	Ing. Lucie Kocůrková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. OSH history and importance
2. OSH as a scientific discipline
3. Information resources in OSH
4. Key OSH principles, rights and duties of stakeholders
5. Main OSH instruments
6. OSH organization on international, european and national level
7. OSH management within an enterprise
8. Role, knowledge and skills of OSH professional
9. Occupational safety and Technical safety
10. Construction site safety
11. Occupational hygiene and ergonomics
12. Chemical safety
13. Explosion protection

Literature

COM(2014) 332 final. COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS on an EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2014-2020.
COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 12 June 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work(89/391/EEC)

Advised literature

Alli, B. O. Fundamental principles of occupational health and safety. 2nd edition. ILO: Geneva, 2008. .
Friend, M. A. and Kohn, J. P. Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health. 6th edition. Bernan Press, 2014. , 9781598887242.
ILO encyclopaedia on occupational health and safety: http://www.iloencyclopaedia.org/.
Hale, A., Pryor, P., Hudson, D. (2014). The OHS Professional: A framework for practice – Role, knowledge and skills. International Network of Safety and Health Practitioner Organisations (INSHPO). Des Plaines, USA.
EU-OSHA: https://osha.europa.eu/en.

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