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UNIT 1
MODULE 1: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES (cont’d)
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENT
Students should be able to:
The Concept of Risk in the Engineering Environment
5. examine different lifestyles and the Lifestyle (sustainable and unsustainable
implications for resource efficiency consumption patterns, efficient and inefficient
and environmental quality impact; use of materials and energy).
6. describe the concept of risk in the (a) Definition.
engineering environment; (b) Nature.
7. examine the types of risks within Occupational Health and Safety; commercial
engineering and production market failure, public acceptance,
processes; competition, market access; environmental
(use of hazardous materials, spills and others).
Consequences and Engineering Challenges
8. outline the consequences Injury; loss of life (Occupational Health and
associated with different types of Safety); discontinuation of product line
risks; (commercial); ecosystem disruption
(environmental).
9. discuss the challenges associated Technical capacity (lack of maintenance of
with different types of risks; machinery, human resource, handling of
materials), awareness and knowledge, failure
to implement regulations and standards,
inadequate financing.
The Need For Sustainability
10. justify the need for sustainability in Risks related to people, planet and profit.
manufacturing and production
processes;
11. discuss interventions to achieve Policies, capacity development, financing,
sustainability in manufacturing and monitoring, evaluation and enforcement,
production processes; Environmental Management Systems.
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