GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Engineering
Subject Code: 3172426
Semester – VII
Subject Name: INDUSTRIAL SAFETY
Type of course: Open Elective Course
Prerequisite: nil
Rationale: Safety is major issue in any industry; awareness about safety helps students from major
accidents, Different rules regulation of safety helps students apply it in industry for performance and
productivity improvements. Knowledge of fire, its type and prevention give better work environments and
helps industry from major damage using first aid approach.
Teaching and Examination Scheme:
Teaching Scheme Credits Examination Marks Total
L T P C Theory Marks Practical Marks Marks
ESE (E) PA (M) ESE (V) PA (I)
2 1 0 3 70 30 0 0 100
Content:
Sr. Course Content Total
No. Hrs.
1 Industrial Safety: 6
Overview, Accidents - its preventions, PPE; Safety -objectives, management, organization,
auditing, promotion, policy, safety act, safety manager, government role- National Safety
Council, Safety color codes.
2 Safety Management: 8
Security management of industrial plants, Organization, administration & management -
responsibility in the field of safety. Salient points of factories act 1948 w.r.t. health &
environment, plant & machinery.
3 Industrial Safety Analysis: 8
Locating injury sources, identify causes of injury, injury investigation, safety analysis
techniques -FAULT TREE, THERP, FMEA; Risk tolerability, ten-point scale for
workplace hazards.
4 Fire Prevention: 8
Fire- Fundamentals, elements, classification, initiation & causes Types, extinguishing
techniques-agents & application, Prevention; Electrical fires & its prevention, Fire
detection, Fire alarm and Firefighting systems.
5 Electrical Safety, Electric Shocks, and their Prevention: 9
Precautions & safety in use of electricity, electrical hazards, shocks & electric shock-
phenomenon, various types, its precautions, safety procedure in electrical plant, earthing
system, grounding, Safety systems & training.
6 First Aid: 6
Principal, Resuscitation, training, general rule, electrical shocks/burns, Artificial
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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Engineering
Subject Code: 3172426
Respiration- methods, first aid for-open wounds, bleeding, burns& scalds, fracture&
dislocations, heat stroke, eye injuries, fainting etc.
Suggested Specification table with Marks (Theory): (For BE only)
Distribution of Theory Marks
R Level U Level A Level N Level E Level C Level
10 25 10 10 10 05
Legends: R: Remembrance; U: Understanding; A: Application, N: Analyze and E: Evaluate C:
Create and above Levels (Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy)
Note: This specification table shall be treated as a general guideline for students and teachers. The
actual distribution of marks in the question paper may vary slightly from above table.
Suggested Reading:
1. Industrial Safety Health & Environment Management Systems by R. K.Jain & Sunil S. Rao
Khanna Pub.(2017 Reprint)
2. Industrial Handbook by William Handling, Mc-Graw-Hill.
3. Industrial Safety & Environment by A.K. Gupta Laxmi Publications; second edition.
4. Industrial Safety and Health Management by David W. Rieske C. Ray Asfahl, Pearson Eduction.
5. Industrial Safety, Health Environment and Security by Basudev Panda Laxmi Publications; 1st
edition
Course Outcomes: At the end of this course, students will be able to clarify.
Sr. No. CO statement Topics of the Marks %
Syllabus weightage
CO1 To understand the importance of safety and its 1,2 25
management systems.
CO2 To accomplish the industrial safety analysis. 2,3 20
CO3 To analyze fire and fire-fighting systems. 2,3,4 20
CO4 To identify electrical safety, electric shocks, and their 2,3,5 25
prevention.
CO5 To familiarize about the First aid methods. 6 10
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