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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Safety at Work and Fire Protection

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 542-0373/03
Abbreviation BPaPO
Course title Safety at Work and Fire Protection
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator Ing. Mária Jarolimová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1.Introduction to the subject „Occupational safety and fire protection“. Basic concepts. History of occupational safety. Types of partial safety and its characteristics. Current concept of OSH. Occupational safety. Rights and duties of employees in occupational safety.
2. Education and training for health and safety, types of training, periods of training. Professional consultants of the employer in the field of OHS. Qualified person in risk prevention.
3.Accidents at work. Definition of work injury. Procedure for solving and compensation of work injury, compensation of damages, exemption of employer's liability for the damage incurred.
4. Problems of work risks. Risk management. Search, evaluate and eliminate risks.
5. Categorization of work and workplaces, risk factors, risky work. Health problems and occupational diseases.
6.Personal protective equipment, classification and specification of PPE. Technical requirements for PPE, use and maintenance of PPE.
7.Documentation of health and safety at work. Safety and workplace signs. Rules for the placement of labels on the workplace.
Inspection activities in the field of OHS. Tasks and authorizations of state professional supervision bodies and organizations.
8. Influence of human factor on work process safety. Work ability of man. Neuropsychic characteristics of workers and possibilities of its influence. Work and rest mode to safety level.
9. Occupational health and safety management system in the company - a tool for implementation of security system.
Emergency events, emergency plan, its nature and content. Accident reporting. Emergency planning.
10. Legislation in the field of fire protection. Basic duties of all “entrepreneurs” in the field of fire protection. Obligations of natural persons in the field of fire protection.
11. Fire protection training. Types of training, training periods. Professional consultants of the employer in the field of fire protection.
12.The process of burning. Combustion products, risks, effects on human organism. What to do in case of fire, rules of conduct in case of fire.
13. Physical means of fire protection. Distribution of material assets of fire protection. Fire prevention classes. Preventive educational activities, the most common cause of fire in the home, the most common cause of fire in nature.
14.Documentation of fire protection. Description of individual types of fire protection documentation. Integrated rescue system of the Czech Republic and its components. Intervention of IRS in liquidation of extraordinary events.

Literature

HARMS,L.: Safety analysis : principles and practice in occupational safety.
CRC Press, c2001 - xi, 265 s. : il. ISBN 0-415-23655-X
BRAUER, L.: Safety and Health for Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006, ISBN: 9780471291893 

Advised literature

HOPKINS, A.: Managing Major Hazard. Allen & Unwin, Canbera, 1999,
ISBN 1 86508 702 5