Corporate Environmental Management and Occupational Health and Safety Management
Teaching Stuff:
- Nikolaos Marmaras, Professor NTUA
- Konstantin Aravossis, Assist. Professor NTUA
- Dimitris Nathanael, Lecturer NTUA
Targets of the Course
A. Environmental Management
- To promote the significance of the environmental aspects of corporate sustainability, in the perspective of Sustainable Development
- To develop the principles, the targets of application stages of Environmental Management Systems
- To inform students about the application and evaluation methods of CSR projects, as well as about the framework and the procedure of environmental impact studies
B. Occupational Health and Safety Management
- To help students acquire the introductory knowledge, necessary for the effective management of the Occupational Health and Safety issue
- Getting a first insight in the relevant techniques
References
A. Environmental Management
- Notes (K. Aravossis), presentation transparencies and other material
- Books available in the Postgraduate's library
- Welford – Gouldson (1993). Environmental Management and Business Strategy.
- Hillary Ruth (1997). Environmental Management Systems and Cleaner Production.
- Sheldon Christopher (1997).14001 and Beyond.
- Woodside – Aurrichio – Yturri (1998). ISO 14001 Implementation Manual.
B. Occupational Health & Safety Management
- Marmaras N. (2003). Occupational Health and Safety, Athens NTUA
- Brown, D. (1976). Systems Analysis & Design for Safety. N.J.:Prentice-Hall Inc.
- Reason, J. (1990). Human error. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Press.
- Ferry, T. (1998). Modern Accident Investigation and Analysis. New York: John Wiley & Sons
Contents of the Course
Curriculum / Session (4 hours)
A. Environmental Management
| 1 |
"Sustainable Development": International Initiative and Policies Companies and Environment: The concept of ecoefficiency and ecodesign Life Cycle Analysis Methodology for products and procedures |
| 2 |
"Corporate Sustainability – Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Content of CSR programs Evaluation of CSR programs |
| 3 |
"Environmental Impact Studies. Framework – Permit issuing procedure "Structure of an Environmental Impact Study (example) "Environmental Management Systems. Concept and significance, motives and expected benefits "Application Methodology of Environmental Management Systems |
| 4a |
"The international standard ISO 14001 and the European Regulation EMAS |
B. Occupational Health and Safety Management
| 4b | Introduction. The significance of Occupational Health and Safety in modern enterprise – the two aspects of OHS: Human and Technological – Framework. Considerations for the causes of industrial accidents. Technological approach – Social approach – Systemic approach – Other Approaches |
| 5 | Human Reliability / Human Error. Definitions – Mind Mechanisms for the creation of errors – Error categories – Causes for errors – Mind Prejudice – Quantification of Human Reliability |
| 6 | Accident Analysis. Why? – When? – Accident Analysis techniques (tree of causes, MORT, STEP, etc) – Case Study. Occupational Hazard Evaluation. Why? – When? – Occupational Hazard Evaluation Techniques – Quantification of Occupational Hazard. |
| 7 | Organization and procedures for OHS. Duties of the authorities involved – Models for organizing and managing OHS. – Statistical Analysis of industrial accidents and occupational diseases – Calculation of cost for industrial accidents and occupational diseases – OHS Management Systems and Standardization. |
Grades
- The final grade is calculated as an average of the grades of the two sections of the lesson
- In each section the grade is based on the evaluation of the presentation of a project that is prepared by groups of students.
Aiding Material
- Environmental Management
- Presentations
- References
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Presentations