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Aug 31, 2024
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WTECH 183 - Utility Worker Safety Credits: 3 Examines safety concerns for water and wastewater utilities including confined space entry, underground utility location, excavation safety, fire safety, electrical safety, hazardous energy control (lock out/tag out), machine guarding, and the chemical hazard communication standard. Personal protection topics includes back safety, safe stairway/ladder use, personal fall protection, blood borne pathogen awareness, respiratory, eye, hand, head, hearing, and foot protection. Reviews regulations and standards relating to these topics.
Course Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:
- Understand the significance of a safety compliance program.
- Identify opportunities to mitigate occupational health and safety risks.
- Implement a confined space program.
- Perform underground utility locating, marking, and notification.
- Demonstrate ability to implement cave-in protection program.
- Implement traffic control during system maintenance, repairs, and construction.
- Ability to practice lock out/tag out procedures.
- Describe the elements of fall protection.
- Inspect treatment plant safety equipment (e.g., fire extinguishers, AED, and gas detectors.
- Interpret safety data sheets.
Program Outcomes
- Identify characteristics of water used to provide public drinking water through municipal water distribution and water treatment systems.
- Identify the characteristics of wastewater conveyed and treated in municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
- Monitor, evaluate and adjust processes used in municipal water distribution, water treatment, municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
- Monitor, evaluate, operate and maintain common types of equipment found in municipal water distribution, water treatment systems, municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
- Apply appropriate safety procedures to operation of municipal water distribution, water treatment, municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
- Collect samples for, perform and interpret results of laboratory analyses used to monitor municipal water distribution, water treatment systems, municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
- Perform supporting administrative duties for municipal water distribution, water treatment, municipal wastewater collection and wastewater treatment systems.
College-wide Outcomes
- Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
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