Environmental Health and Safety Science

Catalog description

EGEE 110 Environmental Health and Safety Science (3) (GN) (GS). Environmental Health and Safety is an applied field with many aspects. It has engineering, science, psychology, and management components. For an understanding of how humans interact with their working and living environment, one has to understand basic sciences such as physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and psychology as well as some of the traditional engineering disciplines. This general education course is intended to provide students with a basic understanding of how these science and engineering principles are applied in an environmental health and safety context to topics and hazards commonly encountered in our lives. At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to: 1) Demonstrate an understanding of how the dynamic processes of both the natural and man-made world impact the health, safety, and well-being of all of us in our daily lives; 2) Identify and understand common hazards inherent in industries, residences, transportation systems, and natural environments; 3) Explain the definition of risk including the concepts of probability, severity, presence of a hazard, and exposure to a hazard: 4) Recognize and understand ways of quantitatively expressing risk; 5) Explain risk perception and some of the factors that influence it; 6) Understand and apply control strategies and protective measures to hazards and risks to self, family, friends, and co-workers throughout daily activities;