304 Regulatory Aspects of Safety (3) Survey of regulatory bases of accident prevention requirements; federal laws, codes, standards, court judgments and procedures; case studies; worker, consumer; and environmental influences.
320 Safety Technology (3, Fa) Physical hazards of work environments; principles and methods for identification, evaluation, and control.
324 Fire Prevention and Protection (3) Fundamentals of flame generation and propagation; theory of fire fighting methods; methods and devices for fire detection and protection; lab work in a major city fire research laboratory.
390 Special Problems (1-4) Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
414 Accident Investigation (3, Sp) Technical advances in accident investigation and analysis; emphasis on systems malfunctions and environmental influences. Recommended preparation: SASC 320.
416x Aircraft Accident Investigation (3) Principles and procedures of aircraft accident investigation; the collection, documentation, and analysis of evidence to determine causes and recommendations for the prevention of future accidents. Not available for graduate credit to ISSM majors.
422 System Safety (3, Sp) Principles of systems analysis used to determine potential hazards or failures of a system: hazard detection, safe product assurance methodology, risk evaluation, and safety technology. Recommended preparation: SASC 320.
430 Safety Communications (3) Communication techniques in accident prevention programs; interrelationship of communications with safety disciplines; effectiveness of communication techniques in safety programs; safety administration communication skills.
450 Aerospace Safety (3) Accident prevention aspects of aerospace safety; general aviation, air transport, and space operations; regulations and controls; operational environment; public opinion.
453 Risk Assessment Methods (3) Risk analysis modeling with event trees, fault trees, and influence diagrams; assessment of probability distributions; Monte Carlo simulation and sampling techniques; applications in the public and private sector. Prerequisite: PSYC 274.
454x Survey of Aviation Safety Technology (3) An introduction to Aviation Safety Technology; the requirements of aircraft design, structures analysis, behavior of materials, and basic principles of fixed wing and helicopter aerodynamics. Not available for graduate credit. Recommended preparation: SASC 320.
456 Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology (3, Fa) Basic laws/regulations; concepts of recognition, evaluation and control of potential hazards in work place; toxic agents and affects; acute and chronic diseases caused by industrial exposures; laboratory work in monitoring equipment. Lecture, discussion and lab. Recommended preparation: SASC 300; senior standing.
457 Process Safety Management (3) Causes of major accidents; review and analyze elements of Process Safety Management (PSM); OSHA PSM standard; organizational requirements for PSM implementation. Recommended preparation: SASC 300, SASC 320.
458 Introduction to Radiation Protection (3, Fa) Fundamental techniques, administrative controls and processes and legal aspects of handling various forms of radiation in industrial and research settings. Restricted to upper-division undergraduates and graduate students. Prerequisite: PHYS 153 or PHYS 135b or graduate standing.
460 Transportation Safety (3) Principles of systems analysis used to determine potential hazards or failures of a system: hazard detection, safe product assurance methodology, risk evaluation and safety technology.
480 Community and Workplace Safety (3) Community generated safety problems relative to the workplace and public sector; environmental and health aspects related to hazardous materials, protective processes and regulatory control.
491 Internship (3, max 6) Graded CR/NC. Prerequisite: senior standing.
499 Special Topics (2-4, max 8) Studies in selected areas of safety and health. Graded CR/NC.
554 Applied Reliability and Risk Analysis (3, Sp) Reliability functions; probability distributions; data plotting; physical acceleration; system models and reliability algorithms; quality control; Monte Carlo simulation; uncertainty specification; sampling; fault tree analysis. Recommended preparation: SSM 552.
560 Environmental Safety (3) Technical safety considerations in the environment: toxicity, noise, radiation, air quality, water quality, hazardous materials, product safety; applications to risk evaluation.
572 Safety Management Ñ Functions and Concepts (3) Skills and knowledge required to effectively manage safety functions in contemporary organizations; managing legislated safety requirements and organizational processes.
574L Industrial Hygiene Laboratory (3, Sp) Measurement of industrial air contaminants, noise, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation; calibration and use of instrumentation and direct reading equipment. Prerequisite: SASC 456.
576 System Safety Analysis and Management (3, FaSp) Systems approach to safety, MIL-STD 882, standards and criteria, contractual program requirements, system life cycle in safety, safety program plans, and quantitative analysis. Recommended preparation: SSM 552.
578 Advanced Industrial Hygiene (3, Sp) Comprehensive presentation of theory and fundamentals of industrial hygiene as they apply to current professional practice. Prerequisite: SASC 456.
580 Technical Aspects of Motor Vehicle Safety (3) Tire and suspension characteristics, performance, stability, and control. Crash protection, collision analysis, driver performance, critical conditions of vehicle operation, contribution of environment.
582 Structural Safety and Failure Analysis (3) Strength of materials, design criteria, failure mechanisms. Recognition of failures, fatigue, brittle fracture, contribution of manufacturing and maintenance, analysis of evidence. Case studies of failure.
584 Technical Aspects of Flight Vehicle Safety (3) Survey of aerodynamics, performance, stability, and control of flight vehicles. Critical areas of operation, contribution of operator technique; effects of configuration; case studies of accidents.
586 Industrial Toxicology and Epidemiology (3) Causal relationships of occupational exposures to human health. Principles of toxicology; toxicant action, classification; dose-response effects; setting of standards and regulations. Recommended preparation: SASC 456.
650 Risk and Safety Seminar (3, FaSp) Theoretical approaches to risk modeling; formulation of hazard root causes in operational environments; probabilistic models of hazards with computer simulations; case studies and applications to high hazard environments. Recommended preparation: all program core courses.
652 Seminar in Quantitative Methods (3) Advanced quantitative methods in risk, safety, and management, including these methods in probability and statistics, risk and decision analysis, and operations modeling. Recommended preparation: SSM 552.
670 Regulatory Aspects of Technology and Safety (3) The development, enactment or promulgation, and implementation of occupational and environmental regulations, standards and laws. Technical-legal management team emphasis.
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