Safety Education through case study presentation

The referred subject journal article has indeed inspired me a lot. In my advocacy for the integration of health and safety concern to engineering curriculum, David, a professor in the University of Melbourne shares my thoughts and philosophy. In this article, contained a twenty seven safety-deficient related cases that resulted in serious fatalities, ranging from hundreds to thousands in different countries. The article looks at causes of these mishaps; suggestive lessons and integrating of such safety concern to engineering academic curriculum.
Interestingly, is the fact that these 27 cases were communicated to undergraduate engineering students and made participatory, which redefined and transposed their engineering aptitude from basic system designs to Occupational safe design.

David C. Shallcross., October 2012, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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  1. smithb06 said:

    This sounds like a much needed article for the engineering curriculum. The engineering field is in dire need of encompassing occupational safe design into their designs. If all engineers had some background from their college classes tailored towards safety design, think of all the headaches it would save compliance folks and maintenance folks downstream. This is definitely where the engineering curriculum needs to gravitate towards in the future as designs of buildings make maintenance activities more challenging as Dr. Behm alluded to a few weeks ago in his lecture.

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