Course detail
Technology and Safety of Work with Earth Moving Machines
FSI-QBS Acad. year: 2022/2023 Winter semester
The course is focused on the technology of working with earthmoving machinery and the safety regulations applicable to their work. The course deals with the choice of deployment of individual earthmoving machinery according to the type and extent of earthmoving work, site survey, securing excavation work, working conditions of earthmoving machinery, machine operator duties, prohibited handling of machines, transport of machinery on public roads, etc. This course is obligatory for the students applying for the earthwork machines driving license.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
3
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The graduation of this course is obligatory for all persons interested in attaining driving licence for the earthwork machines. Students will also gain the knowledge that a manager must have in the management of work teams performing earthworks. It is about the ability to organize the use of earthmoving machinery according to the technological work, to ensure work safety and also the ability to educate other workers in these areas.
Prerequisites
Students are required to have basic knowledge of a physics, machine parts and their mechanism and physics of the materials.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on the practical topics presented in the lectures. The course includes excursions and internships in companies that manufacture, service or operate equipment from the thematic area of education.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
The verification of the knowledge acquired in the course: Written test.
Aims
The aim of the course is to get acquainted with the system technologies of operation of earth-moving machinery and safety regulations for their operation. Students will be introduced with the duties and responsibilities of the machine operators, the duties and responsibilities of the supervisors (zone managers, leading groups) mainly from aspect of the making safe working environment and prevent injuries and breakdowns during controlling the earthwork machines.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
To get a graded course-unit credit students must attend seminars and successful completion of the test.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-ADI-P: Automotive and Material Handling Engineering, Master's, elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Technical properties of rocks and methods of their separation.
2. Technological classification of earth moving machines, typical construction groups.
3. Operation of machines in assemblies. Serial, parallel and combined machine sets.
4. Working technology of excavators and loaders.
5. Working technology of dozers and machines for compaction of soils and asphalts.
6. System of inspections of operational condition and organization of maintenance.
7. Safety of work with earth-moving machinery – interpretation of terms, legislation, labor code.
8. The system of education of earthmoving machine operators in the Czech Republic. Documentation of the operation of earthmoving machinery.
9. Definition and preparation of the construction site (workplace), provision of excavation work. 10. Protection zones and work in them, dangerous reach of the machine, prohibited manipulations.
11. Obligations of the operator before, during and termination of operation.
12. Transport of machinery on public roads, work on public roads.
13. Lifting and transporting loads, work safety during cooperation.
Internships
7 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
7th and 8th weeks: Practice – periodic maintenance determination of the earthmoving machines.
Weeks 9 to 13: Practice – operating conditions and control of earthmoving machines.
Exercise
6 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1st and 2nd weeks: Earth class determination, excavator and loader work technology.
3rd and 4th weeks: Technology of compaction work, Control and monitoring systems for earthmoving machines.
5th and 6th weeks: Safety of earthmoving machinery – design of the course of repeated training.