Safety Management For Loss Prevention

1. Explain the concept of safety and its importance in various industries.
2. Identify hazards and assess risks in different work environments.
3. Implement safety measures to minimize losses and prevent accidents.
4. Analyze the causes of building defects and recommend appropriate remediation strategies.
5. Evaluate urban crime prevention strategies and their effectiveness.
6. Apply safety management principles to real-world scenarios.

13 weeks, about 70 hours in total. Yours will differ.

1. Week 1Module 1: Concept of safety

   • Unit 1: Concept of Safety · 4 hours

     Read the introduction to safety management.. Define the concept of safety and its importance.. Discuss the acceptable level of safety in various industries..

2. Week 2Module 1: Concept of safety

   • Unit 2: Safety Culture: Key Health Issues · 4 hours

     Examine the elements of an organizational safety culture.. Discuss the barriers to creating a desired safety culture.. Suggest ways to crystallize a culture of safety within an organization..

   • Unit 3: Responsibility for Managing Safety · 3 hours

     Identify the parties responsible for managing safety in the aviation industry.. Explain the relationships and contributions of each party.. Discuss the importance of collaboration among stakeholders..

3. Week 3Module 1: Concept of safety

   • Unit 4: Understanding Safety: The Concept of Risk · 5 hours

     Explain the concept of risk and its components.. Discuss accident causation models and their implications.. Differentiate between accidents and incidents in safety management..

4. Week 4Module 1: Concept of safety

   • Unit 5: Safety and the Human Factor · 5 hours

     Highlight the importance of human factors in aviation safety.. Explain the SHEL model of safety management.. Recognize the influence of organizational behavior in safety management..

5. Week 5Module 2:

   • Unit 1: Human Error and Aviation Safety · 5 hours

     Explain human error and different types of errors.. Discuss the safety cycle and cost considerations in safety management.. Examine strategies for managing errors in aircraft maintenance..

6. Week 6Module 2:

   • Unit 2: Basics of Safety Management · 4 hours

     Explain the basic principles of safety management in a systematic, proactive, and explicit manner.. Discuss safety management concepts such as system safety and factors affecting system safety..

   • Unit 3: Risk Management · 3 hours

     Explain the meaning and importance of risk management.. Discuss the various aspects of hazard identification.. Describe the process of risk assessment and mitigation..

7. Week 7Module 3:

   • Unit 1: Safety and Security: Comparable Indicators of Violence · 4 hours

     Discuss the various perceptions of security and safety.. Examine violence and poverty as an inextricable link in the study of safety and loss management.. Capture data on the incidence of violence and other threats to safety and security..

   • Unit 2: Collapse of Buildings in Nigeria · 3 hours

     Discuss the concept of sick buildings.. Explain health-related symptoms associated with sick buildings.. Enumerate measures in detecting unhealthy and dangerous buildings..

8. Week 8Module 3:

   • Unit 3: Building Deterioration Phenomena and Maintenance Concept · 5 hours

     Explain the causes of building defects.. List the factors influencing building maintenance requirements and costs.. Discuss the environmental problems in 3rd World Cities..

9. Week 9Module 3:

   • Unit 4: Building Maintenance in Nigeria · 5 hours

     Mention the various types of maintenance in building and architectural design.. Identify the economic significance of Building Maintenance in Nigeria.. Examine the problems associated with ineffective maintenance activities in organizations..

10. Week 10Module 3:

    • Unit 5: Principles, Diagnosis and Cure of Defective Buildings · 5 hours

      Highlight some of the challenges of defect diagnosis.. Examine relevant principles of diagnosis of defective buildings.. Discuss remediation of defective buildings..

11. Week 11Module 4:

    • Unit 1: Factors Responsible for Structural Failures and Collapse of Buildings · 5 hours

      Examine some common causes of structural defects.. Highlight reported cases of collapsed buildings in Nigeria.. Discuss the factors contributing to these collapses..

12. Week 12Module 4:

    • Unit 2: Gating, Private Security and Public Space · 5 hours

      Analyze gating as an issue in public and private security.. Examine theoretical and empirical perspectives of gating in modern-day city development..

13. Week 13Module 4:

    • Unit 4: Promoting Urban Crime Prevention Strategies in Africa · 5 hours

      Find out crime and approaches to the increase in crime.. Discuss the methodology in municipal intervention and the causes of delinquency.. Examine the role of local authorities in promoting urban crime prevention..