AMFG 1010 - Industrial Safety and Health

4.5 Credits

This course covers the basics of industrial safety and health. Topics covered are OSHA-required and include introduction to OSHA, managing safety and health, hazard communication, fire protection, emergency action plans, electrical safety, PPE, material handling, and machine guarding. This course also covers OSHA elective areas such as BBP, fall protection, welding, LOTO, and confined spaces.

Note: Students who successfully complete and attend all OSHA-required and elective sections of this course are eligible to receive the OSHA 30-hour general industry card.

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

Demonstrate the ability to understand the OSHA (1910) Standards for Industrial Safety and Health.
Recognize the relationship between the OSHA standards and the safe work practices used in workplace and lab settings.
Model safe work practices in classroom and lab environments.
Recognize unsafe work practices in the workplace, classroom and lab environment.
Demonstrate the ability to document, according to OSHA standard, violations to safe work practices.
Practice the skill of interpreting the standard as written, to what the standard means in action.
Demonstrate the ability to complete a task or work assignment while working within accepted safe work practices.

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