Environmental Health and Safety (5 cr)
Code: BIY6020-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.04.2021 - 30.04.2021
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 23.08.2021 - 17.12.2021
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Insinöörikoulutus / Energia- ja ympäristötekniikka (IE)
- Campus
- Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Seats
- 20 - 40
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Engineering
- Teachers
- Tarmo Tossavainen
- Anniina Kontiokorpi
- Teacher in charge
- Anniina Kontiokorpi
- Groups
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BIYNS20Engineer, Energy and Environmental Engineering, Full-Time Studies, Fall, 2020
- Course
- BIY6020
Evaluation scale
H-5
Objective
The student gets familiar with typical environmental risks, their control and management. Student is aware of the risks related on the human health and to the environment. The student knows personal and professional responsibility when it comes to securing healthy environment and protecting the environment.
Content
The environmental health effects. The physical, chemical and biological environmental factors. The environmental changes caused by human activity. The principle of cautiousness. The special situations of environmental health, REACH. The ecological risk evaluation.