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School District of Oconee County

Mechatronics-Electrical Components/Industrial Safety
(Mechatronics 1)

Course Number: 621001CW
(TCTC TAP credit available)

Mechatronics is a new field involving the setup, maintenance, and repair of automated manufacturing systems. The skills required of a mechatronics technician involve problem solving, integrated electrical systems, fluid power, electronics, computer controls, PLCs, instrumentation, robotics, and information technology. Mechatronics combines a host of integrated skills that can be applied in a variety of careers. Mechatronics 1 introduces and teaches the student proper industrial safety skills needed to be successful in the training lab and on the job site.

 

There are no prerequisites required for this course.
$20

South Carolina Standards:  (List the standards students are expected to master in this course)

INDUSTRIAL SAFETY (SECTION 1) 1-4

  1. Explain the idea of a safety culture and its importance to mechatronics.
  2. Identify causes of accidents and the impact of accident costs.
  3. Explain the role of OSHA in job-site safety.*
  4. Explain OSHA’s General Duty Clause and 1926 CFR Subpart C.
  5. Recognize hazard recognition and risk assessment techniques.
  6. Explain fall protection and ladder, stair, and scaffold procedures and requirements.
  7. Identify struck-by hazards.
  8. Demonstrate safe working procedures and requirements related to lock out-tag out procedures.
  9. Identify caught-in-between hazards.
  10. Demonstrate safe working procedures and requirements related to caught-in-between hazards.
  11. Demonstrate safe work procedures to use around electrical hazards.
  12. Demonstrate the use and care of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).
  13. Explain the importance of hazard communications (HazCom) and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs).
  14. Identify other construction hazards on your job site, including hazardous material exposures, environmental elements, welding and cutting hazards, confined spaces, and fires.
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Manufacturing

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