SYDE 442Occupational and Environmental Systems Safety
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1977–78 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Concept of system safety and safety as. a system component in design and industry. Liabilities and safety legislation. Workman's Compensation: cost, disability, benefits, adequacy. Management and safety responsibilities. The changing roles of safety personnel. Hazards, their determination, categories and elimination. Industrial safety and accident protection. Plant safety and emergency planning. Accident investigation. The hazards of toxic materials, their types, mechanisms, detection and measurement. Toxicology and the workplace, industrial safety standards and codes.
As printed in the 1982–83 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1977–78 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1982–83 to 1994–95 12 calendars
Concept of system safety and safety as.
a system component in design and industry. Liabilities and safety legislation. Workman's Compensation: cost, disability, benefits, adequacy. Management and safety responsibilities. The changing roles of safety personnel. Hazards, their determination, categories and elimination. Industrial safety and accident protection. Plant safety and emergency planning. Accident investigation. The hazards of toxic materials, their types, mechanisms, detection and measurement. Toxicology and the workplace, industrial safety standards and codes.
Offered Winter · 2 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit
1977–78 to 1981–82 5 calendars
Historical developments of occupational safety and safety legislation. Master and servant relationships, assumption of risk, product liability, etc. Concept of system safety and safety as a system component in design and industry.