Course Details

Environmental and Labour Protection Mangement

Academic Year 2024/25

NWA017 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIR Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Basic information about environmental problems and sustainable development with a focus on the impact of construction activities, environmental management and related regulations, ISO 14001 for construction companies. 2. Production of environmental plans for the protection of the environment in connection with the construction technology model of a construction process (continuity and specific solutions for individual selected construction sub-processes), consideration of ecological regulations during the execution of an assigned construction. 3. Health protection against noise and vibrations. Valid legislation. 4. Measurement of external noise from machines, methods of noise evaluation in protected areas outside executed structures, lowering the level of construction site noise. 5. Terminology concerning the rights and duties of participants in the construction process. The OHS management system in the Czech Republic; EU framework directives. 6. Risk prevention and management, safety risks, health risks. 7. The safety coordinator and his/her role in the construction process. 8. The OHS plan in connection with the construction technology model of a structure. Requirements for the production of an OHS plan and its contents; consideration of safety regulations during the execution of an assigned construction process.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the contents of practical classes. Assignment to individual tasks from the area of ecology, construction site noise abatement. 2. Assignment of the production of part of an environmental plan for the protection of the environment in connection with the construction technology model of a structure. 3. Production of part of an environmental plan for the protection of the environment in connection with the construction technology model of a structure – consultation regarding individual assignments. 4. Acquaintance with computer models for noise evaluation, production of an assignment from the area of construction site noise abatement. 5. Processing of safety risks for a stage of the construction process – assignment. 6. Processing of safety risks for a stage of the construction process – consultations. 7. Consultations regarding the individual assignments in the areas of ecology and OHS. 8. Presentation and defence of individual assignments.