Syllabus - Safety Engineering & Its Industrial Application (FT305)

Fire Technology & Safety Engineering

Safety Engineering & Its Industrial Application (FT305)

III-Semester

MATERIAL HANDLING AND MECHANICAL HAZARDS

Principles of Material handling, Material characteristics, Major equipments categories- Positioning equipment, Conveyors and Automatic Guided vehicles, Mechanical injuries- Safe guards and their requirement, Point of operation for guards and devices. Sensing devices for guards- mechanical limit switches and non mechanical actuation, Guard locking systems and devices, Sensor for motion detection, Presence sensing devices- Trip devices, Mechanical trip switches, Trip wires, Pressure sensing mats, Edge detections, Opto electronic presence detector, Light curtains, Control devices for safety.

HAZARDS AND CONTROL AT DIFFERENT LEVEL

Causes and kind of falls, Walking and slipping, Impact and acceleration hazards, Lifting and standing hazards, Forklift safety. Lockout- tagout, log-in procedure, Loto hardware, Energy isolation release from lockout or tagout, Special procedure. Confined space entry- Identification and hazards, Confined space entry procedure and permits, Duties and responsibilities of entrants, Attendants and rescue team, Hot work procedure and permits. Behavior based Safety.

PRESSURE HAZARDS AND VESSEL TESTING

Pressure hazard sources, Boilers and pressure hazard, High temperature water hazard, Hazard of unfired pressure vessels, Measurement and reduction of pressure hazards. Pressure vessels definition, Classification and grading, Examination intervals and principles, Defect and failure, Pressure testing, Types of pressure test, Safety precaution in pressure and hydraulic testing, Leak testing and detection, Leak location methods and leak rate.

EMERGNECY PLANNING

Safety in industries involving hazardous processes- types of hazards in chemical industries, Introduction, Onsite Emergency planning, Developing Emergency plan, Essential function and Nominated personnel, Off-site Emergency planning, Emergency Incidents and emergency Scenarios – case studies.

INDUSTRIAL HAZARDS AND CONTROL

Hazards and their control in the manufacture of articles from refractory materials, hazards in solvent extraction plants and their control, safety in industries, manufacturing rayon by viscose process, hazards and their control in fertilizer industries, hazards and their control in LPG bottling plant.

Course Objective

To understand the fundamental of safety engineering in material handling, operation at different levels with major industrial hazards and their application in emergency planning of an organization.

Course Outcome

["Students will be able to recognize major material handling equipment and design safe guards for mechanical hazards prevention.", "Students will be able to illustrate hazards during operation at different levels and develop safe operating procedures.", "Students will be able to visualize the pressure hazards and plan vessel testing for the organization.", "Students will be able to demonstrate emergency planning of an organization in onsite and offsite situations.", "Students will be able to identify the major industrial hazards and their control measures."]

Practicals

  • To visualize and demonstrate the function of mechanical limit switches in EOT crane with the help of sample working model.

  • To plan the requirement and design the safe guards for a sample working model of bucket elevator.

  • To define and demonstrate trip wire function for emergency lock inside the sample working model of conveyor belt.

  • To schematize the safe operating procedure for confined space entry and demonstrate confined space entry operation within the sample model of confined space entry.

  • To perform the pressure vessel test for a given sample of pressure vessel with the help of ultra sonic thickness tester and hand/electric operated hydraulic pump.

  • To recognize and relate the rated load capacity of a sample working model of EOT cranes and interpret it with safe load capacity.

  • To schematize the safe operating procedure for prevention of chlorine leakage and demonstrate the chlorine leakage and its control with the help of emergency kit and neutralization process.

  • To measure the efficiency of exhaust fan for removal of toxic fumes through exhaust duct in a given sample of “acid spread” model.

Reference Books

  • Sam Mannan, Lees’ Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Third Edition Volume-2 section-19

  • Sam Mannan, Lees’ Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Third Edition Volume-2 section-24

  • Paul A. Erickson, Practical Guide to Occupational Health and Safety, Academic Press

  • David L. Goetsch. Occupational Safety and Health for Technologist, Engineers and Manager- Third edition, Prentice- Hall Inc.

  • Dave Macdonald, Practical Machinery safety, Newnes

  • Dr. K.U. Mistry, Fundamentals of Industrial safety & health, Siddhart Prakashan.