MSE - Mine Safety and Environmental Engineering
When and where
15/03/2010 until 19/03/2010
Duration: 5 days
Engineering Building, University of Ballarat, Mount Helen Campus
Course coordinator/contact
Dr Michael Tuck
Phone : 53279106
Email : m.tuck@ballarat.edu.au
Subject Coordinators
Tuck, Michael
Course Outline:
The unit is designed to give a basis for understanding the various elements that make up the mine environment, and how to control and regulate it to achieve a safe, healthy and comfortable workplace conducive to performance and efficiency.
Knowledge
Determine the size of the occupational health and safety problem.
Find the specialist definitions of key terms in occupational health and safety.
Appreciate the history of occupational health and safety.
Determine how the legal system deals with occupational health and safety problems.
Examine risk management models.
Understand consultative mechanisms.
Compare and contrast occupational health and safety auditing tools.
Understand the effects of specific hazards on the human body.
Skills
Build models for the management of occupational health and safety problems.
Tackle health and safety problems at their source.
Use the hierarchy of hazard controls to control hazards.
Apply management system concepts to occupational health and safety case studies.
Develop occupational health and safety policies.
Determine assessment methods for specific hazards.
Prepare a plan for hazard control.
Values
Appreciate that social problems have an historical and legal context.
Prefer the safe-place over the safe-person approach to control hazards.
Value workplace consultation.
Content:
Legislation
General framework
Health & safety legislation
Mines regulations
Occupational Health & Safety
History and philosophy
Types of accidents and injuries
Hazard management
Manual handling
Human factors
Entry into confined spaces
Control strategies
Mine Environmental Engineering
Atmospheric contaminants and their control
(Dusts, gases, radiation, heat and humidity, noise)
Mine illumination
Emergency Situations
Outbursts and explosions
Mine fires
Mine rescue
Course Assesment:
Course Questions,Written report,40-50%
Risk Assessment,Written report,25-30%
Safe design Project,Written report,25-30%
Special Requirements:
Payment Information:
Please make payment to the School of Science and Engineering, University of Ballarat, PO Box 663, Ballarat, VIC 3353. Cheques should be made payable to the University of Ballarat
Groups:
Geophysics
Economic Geology and Metallogeny
Field Trip: : NO
Course Fees:
MCA Student: $0.00
External Student: $0.00
Industry: $500.00
