FACULTY

APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES

DEPARTMENT

AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

LEVEL OF STUDIES

UNDERGRADUATE

MODULE CODE

AE4150T

SEMESTER OF STUDIES

^7th

COURSE TITLE

HUMAN FACTOR AND SAFETY AT WORK

INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES

TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK

CREDIT UNITS

Lectures 

2

3

COURSE TYPE

ΔΟΝΑ

PRE-REQUIRED COURSES:

TEACHING AND EXAMINATION LANGUAGE

GREEK

THE COURSE IS OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDETNS 

COURSE WEBSITE (URL)

Learning Objectives

The course is an introduction to the concept of human factor as an important element for work safety and to the principles and assessment methodologies of job related hazard, which ought to be taken into consideration and implemented in the workplace, so that workers' health and safety are ensured and simultanously – in a broader framework- the business and the public in general are positively influenced.

After successfully completing the course, students should be able to:

·         know the content of module 9 of the 1321/2014 EC regulation, part 66.

·         Describe and explain the safety principles and the procedures of identifying, analysing, assessing and managing the job related hazards in the workplace.

·         Collaborate with their fellow students in order to prepare and present a study concerning job risk, human factor and work safety.

·         Participate in a study focusing on Job Related Hazard assessment in the aviation industry workplace.

·         Identify the individual, business and social factors concerning professional ethics and morality and their association with work safety. 

General Skills

•     Search, analysis and combination of data and information with the use of the necessary technologies

•     Autonomous work

•     Group work 

•  Development of free, creative, critical thinking

Unit 1: Introduction

               Human factor – The necessity for the human factor to be taken into consideration. Incidents caused by the human factor or human error – Murphy law.

Unit 2: Potential and limitations of the human factor

Vision – Hearing -  Information processing – Attention and perception – Memory- Claustophobia and physical access.

Unit 3: Social psychology

Responsibility: individual and collective – Motivation and demotivation -  Colleague pressure – Cultural differences – Group work – Management, supervision and leadership. 

Unit 4: Factors affecting performance

Physical condition/Health – Stress caused by family and work – Time pressure and deadlines – Work load: working overtime and working part time – Sleep and fatique,  shift work – Alcoholic drinks, drugs, drug abuse.

Unit 5: Natural Environment

Noise and smoke – Lighting – Climate and temperature – Motion and vibrations – Work environment.

Unit 6: Types of work

Physical work  -  Repetitive work – Visual inspection – Complex systems

Unit 7: Communication

Within team and among teams – work sheets and record keeping.  Information and awareness. Information communication.

Unit 8: Human error

Models and error theories – Types of errors in maintenane work – Error consequences ( accidents, etc)  -Error prevention and management.

Unit 9: Threats in workplace

Threat identification and avoidance – Emergency management

Unit 10: Safety factors

Thorough description of the factors that negatively affect the ground personnel work hygiene and safety.  Electricity – Active and Passive Fire Protection – Chemical factors – Heat works – Seaming and metal working – Material storage.  Work in heights – Lifting machines – Vehicle motion – Dangerous loads – non ionizing radiations – Signal classification – Work standards and Instructions – Right work practices – Pernonnel notification and training 

Unit 11: Legislation and Terminology

Analysis of legislation issues related to workplace hygiene and safety – Term explanations (such as: work accident,  hazard, incident, risk, employee spokesperson, safety technician, occupational doctor, Work Inspection Body, External Protection and Prevention services, Margin of exposure values, etc) – Employers' and employees' rights and obligations.  

Unit 12: Professional risk assessment document

Planning and importance of risk analysis procedure – Risk assessment and management – Safety and occupational risk management models – Methodology development for the preparation of a study on Occupational risk assesment. Legislation and regulation list, recognition and listing of risk sources, risk analysis, control measures, pre-required program attendance- work instructions- corrective action proposals  – document management- escape and evacuation planning – Physicochemical factor evaluation study, inspections and compliance evaluation, notification and infromation communication, consultation and  employee participation  

Unit 13: Occupational Ethics and Code of Conduct: basic concepts, definitions 

Ethical considerations – Different ethical theories and codes of conduct – Ethics levels of implementation (individually, in the workplace, publicly) Gresham Law – Factors affecting individuals and social community (such as technologocal advance, people and capital movement, culture, piece or war conditions, communication or isolation, language and religion, global security, etc) -  Professonal responsibility -high principles and responsibilites overtaken (such as respect to autonomy, adherence to fair agreements,  honesty and sensibility, justice promotion, etc) – Business ethics (such as business partnerships and management commitment, formulation of behavior principles, regulatory discipline, legal approval and social responsibilities for business practices, employee rights, bribery, negligence, deception, dishonest work practices, patents, copyrights, accounting responsibility, etc)    

TEACHING METHODS

In the classroom

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

•  Use of Internet

•  Use of e-class platform 

•  Use of computer data projector

TEACHING ORGANIZATION

STUDENT EVALUATION

Ι. Final written examination  (70%) including:

- Multiple choice questions

- Short answer questions

- Topic developement

ΙΙ. Group assignment presentation (30%)

-Suggested Bibliography :

·         Κ. Παπακωνσταντίνου, Χ. Μπελιάς, Υγιεινή και Ασφάλεια Εργασίας - Προστασία Περιβάλλοντος, Εκδ. ROSILI, 2007

·         Krause, Shari Stamford, Aircraft Safety, McGraw-Hill Education - Europe,2003

·         J. Oakley, Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles, Cambridge University Press, 2001

·         Gavriel Salvendy, Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Fourth Edition, 2012