Use this schedule to plan your reading and studying. Do not put too much emphasis on the dates, as they may change with our progress. The topic sequence should be reliable.
| January 9 | Administrivia | |
| NFPA Diamonds | ||
| January 11 | Introduction | Text pp. 4-5 |
| Definitions | Text pp. 1-2, 6, 26 | |
| January 13 | Loss Statistics | Text pp. 4-12 |
| January 18 | Video: "Spiral to Disaster" (Piper Alpha) | |
| Significant Disasters | Text pp. 23-28 | |
| January 20 | Significant Disasters | Text pp. 23-28 |
| Quiz I | ||
| January 23 | Risk | Text pp. 12-15 |
| Toxicology and Chemical Hazards | Text pp. 35-54 | |
| January 25 | Toxicology and Chemical Hazards | Text pp. 35-54 |
| Threshold Limit Values | Text pp. 54-59 | |
| January 27 | Video: Preventing Harm from NaHS | |
| Roles of the Safety Professional | ||
| January 30 | Industrial Hygiene | Text pp. 63-64, 74-85, 94-97 |
| February 1 | Noise Control | |
| February 3 | CANCELLED | |
| February 6 | PSM and RMP | |
| February 8 | Guest Speaker: Jack Shepherd, "Monitoring for Air Quality Control" | |
| February 10 | Confined Space Entry | |
| Video: Hazards of Nitrogen Asphyxiation | ||
| February 13 | Guest Speaker: Toleda Burton, "PSM" | |
| February 15 | PSM and RMP | |
| Quiz 3 | ||
| February 17 | Video: Anatomy of a Disaster | |
| February 20 | Video: Anatomy of a Disaster | |
| February 22 | Hazard Communication, MSDS, GHS | Text pp. 74-77 |
| February 24 | Hot Work | |
| Video: Dangers of Hot Work | ||
| February 27 | Lock Out Tag Out | |
| February 29 | Video: About the CSB | |
| Video: Dangers of Propylene Cylinders | ||
| March 2 | ||
| March 12 | Fires and Explosions | Text pp. 225-229 |
| March 14 | Flammability | Text pp. 230-238 |
| March 16 | Ignition | Text pp. 248-252 |
| March 19 | Explosions | Text pp. 252-255, 258-265 |
| March 21 | Explosions | Text pp. 252-255, 258-265 |
| March 23 | Explosions | Text pp. 252-255, 258-265 |
| March 26 | Explosion Damage Estimation | Text pp. 265-270 |
| March 28 | Explosion Energy | Text pp. 274-80 |
| Vapor Cloud Explosions | Text pp. 282-282 | |
| March 30 | BLEVEs | Text p. 282 |
| March 19 | Dust Explosions | Text pp. 262-265 |
| Video: Inferno -- Explosion at Imperial Sugar | ||
| March 22 | Video: Combustible Dust -- An Insidious Hazard | |
| Explosion and Fire Prevention | Text p. 291 | |
| March 24 | Inerting | Text p. 292 |
| Purging | Text pp. 292-301 | |
| March 29 | Purging | Text pp. 292-301 |
| Static Electricity | Text pp. 307-312 | |
| March 31 | Purging | Text pp. 292-301 |
| April 7 | Static Electricity | Text pp. 307-312 |
| April 9 | Static Electricity | Text pp. 307-312 |
| Quiz 6 | ||
| April 12 | Process Hazard Analysis | |
| HAZOP | ||
| April 14 | Process Hazard Analysis | |
| April 16 | Process Hazard Analysis | |
| April 19 | ||
| Quiz 7 | ||
| April 21 | ||
| April 23 | Release Plume Modeling | |
| April 26 | Video: Reactive Hazards | |
| Video: Runaway: Explosion at T2 Laboratories | ||
| April 28 | Reactivity | |
| Apr 30 | Review | |
| May 3 | ||
| TBA | Final Exam |
Revised: 22 December 2004 by RMP