Syllabus For Safety Officer 30082022
Syllabus For Safety Officer 30082022
1.1 INTRODUCTION
1.1.1 Management and management principles and types of management
1.1.2 Management Principles: General principles of management, managerial role, authority,
responsibility and power, span of management, delegation and decentralization of authority.
1.1.3 Safety, Health and Environment Management (SHE), Occupational Safety, Health and
Environmental Safety Management – Principles and Practices
1.1.4 Role of Management in industrial safety
1.1.5 Organization behaviors and Human factors contributing to accident
2. SAFETY ENGINEERING-I
3. SAFETY ENGINEERING-II
5.2 THE FACTORIES ACT, 1948 AND THE FACTORIES RULES Factories Act - Provisions under the
factories act and rules made there under with amendments - Case Laws under the factories act
5.2 SOCIAL SECURITY – LEGISLATIONS
5.2.1 Workmen’s Compensation Act and Rules
5.2.2 ESI Act and Rules. Contract Labor (Abolition and Regulation) Act
5.2.3 Public Liability Insurance Act
5.2.4 Social Accountability 8000 SA - 8000
6.4.1 Common Occupational Disease as per the Schedule III of the Factories Act 6.4.2 Pre-
employment, Periodical medical examination of workers. medical surveillance for control of
occupational disease and health records
6.4.3 Fundamentals of First – aid-burns, fractures, Suffocation, Toxic ingestion – Bleeding wounds and
Bandaging, Artificial respiratory, techniques
6.5 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS
6.5.1 Physiology of respiration, cardiac cycle, muscle contraction, nerve conduction system etc.
Assessment of workload based on Human Physiological reactions. Permissible limits of load for manual
lifting and carrying. Criteria for fixation limits
6.5.2 Working Posture: Its effects on cardio-vascular and musculo-skeletal system and implications on
health. Nutrition and its importance in manual work. Nutritional requirements and nutritional of diet 24
6.5.3 Assessment of work capacity fatigue and rest allowances. Physiological test for assessment of
occupational health. Nutrition: Nutritional requirements and the Diets for exercise, work and physical
fitness
6.5.4 Aerobic work capacity (Physical work capacity), methods of its determination (Use of bicycle,
ergo meter, treadmill, step-stool ergo meter). Factors affecting aerobic capacity and work performance
6.5.5 Environmental Physiology
6.6 ERGONOMICS
6.6.1 Introduction to Ergonomics, Definition, Aims and Scope, Man-machine (Job), Environment
System, Constituents of Ergonomics, Application of Ergonomics in industry for safety, Health and
Environment
6.6.2 Ergonomics of Automation / Assembly, visual fatigue, Ergonomics of rehabilitation while
assigning alternate jobs. Anthropometry and fundamental of bio-mechanics: basic and applied aspects:
Anthropometric measurements and their usefulness in industry
6.6.3 Ergonomic design of work station: Concept of workstation and its design. Improving safety and
productivity through work station design. Technical and engineering control measures. Economics
consideration.
7.8 MSDS
7.8.1 Use of Material safety data sheets
7.13
7.13.1 Inspection techniques for plants, reaction vessels, check list for routine inspection, checklist for
specific maintenance and breakdown
7.14 INSPECTION TECHNIQUES
7.14.1 Corrosion and erosion, location, causes inspection and prevention.
8.2.2 Above ground works Safety in use and operations of related machinery and equipment relating to
the below works
8.2.2.1 Know about scaffolding
8.2.2.2 Know about centering
8.2.2.3 Know about formwork ladders
8.2.2.4 Know about wall and floor openings
8.2.2.5 Know about staircases and railings
8.2.2.6 Know about structural steel work including welding, cutting, erection, etc.
8.2.3 Underwater operations Safety in use and preparation of related machinery and equipment
8.2.3.1 Know about river training
8.2.3.2 Know about well sinking
8.2.3.3 Know about caissons
8.2.3.4 Know about underwater concreting cofferdams and special operations concerted with
irrigation work
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NOTE: The syllabus/topics mentioned are indicative in nature. Candidates are expected to possess
significant knowledge/proficiency pertaining to the relevant subjects and their qualifying degree.