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Edwin Seiichi Miyata
IND E 498
Seattle Campus

Special Topics in Industrial Engineering

Lecture and/or laboratory.

Class description

This course provides:

a. Managements' roles in overseeing an occupational safety program b. The engineers' responsibilities for ensuring a safe work environment c. Material and practical methods for assessing safety, promoting safe practices, hazards and their control. d. Remediation technologies of hazardous contaminated materials. f. Systems safety and practical methods for performing safety analyses g. Special topics in safety including musculoskeletal disorders, noise, vibration, radiation, slips, trips and falls

Student learning goals

General method of instruction

Lectures, Guest Lectures, Site visits

Recommended preparation

Class assignments and grading

The information above is intended to be helpful in choosing courses. Because the instructor may further develop his/her plans for this course, its characteristics are subject to change without notice. In most cases, the official course syllabus will be distributed on the first day of class.

Last Update by Edwin Seiichi Miyata
Date: 11/17/2004