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Through this seminar, I finally understand the main purpose of Safety Management as a
field of study in our Engineering program. I learned that having a safe and healthy environment
leads to a better results not only for the whole industry but also for each individual that is
associated within it. Safety and health always starts individually on our own. And having a
commitment to this matter by practicing of safety and health policies can also affect the
environment, property and other people. My commitment for applying safety and health
management system as a student is by always taking care of my own health and safety. I also
believe that familiarizing myself to the safety and health requirements and activities and
practicing them appropriately can improve my sense of responsibility in this matter. I will
communicate and cooperate to my other teammates or co-workers to determine other social
and current issues regarding to safety and health management. This will also help me know my
responsibilities and heighten my knowledge for identifying hazardous conditions and strategical
solutions in a certain situation. If every single person would give appropriate and best
performance to OSH management system, it is not impossible to attain a one hundred percent
safe and healthy environment for all of us.
Safety Management Systems help identify, asses and evaluate appropriate actions to
eliminate the health and safety risks that have been occurring in companies and industrial firms
including in agriculture, forestry and fishery, mining and quarry, manufacturing, construction,
trade and transportation and other public or non-public services. Implementing safety
management systems in an industry protects the employees and employers from harm, accidents
and illness in the workplace. Particular to construction industry, provisions and maintenance for
a safe and healthy workplace results to a more effective way to minimize cost holdings in a
construction business.
Safety and health should be well managed for humanitarian consideration, financial costs,
and legal sanction. Safety management safety involves company level, project management
level, site management level, and individual level. I believe that a failure to each level leads to an
accidents and incidents that can harm the workers and the main parties that are involved in
construction process (owners, designers, supervising companies, and contractors). The safety
must be implemented to all levels of organizations.
The seminar highlighted the condition of the safety management system in engineering
industries. In fact, they categorized most construction industries for poor safety culture and
performance. This situation must be fix by encouraging the industries and companies to prioritize
this matter. Most business industries proved that promoting a great value for safety and health
management benefited them in terms of operational efficiencies, reduction in lost workdays,
fewer accidents and medical claims, recognitions by insurers and regulators and improved
workers retention and satisfaction. By implementing the best way to reduce the risk of accidents
and hazardous conditions in our country will take us into achieving a zero percentage of these
risks. The OSH management system in Malaysia is one specific example for providing and securing
safety, health and welfare for the people in their work. Malaysia directly gave importance on
their safety management system to help lessen occupational accidents and incidents.
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The seminar helps me understand more about Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
(HVAC) and its application in engineering industries especially for Mechanical Engineers.
The seminar is like a lecture and discussion as well that explains how HVAC works. An air
conditioner cools and dehumidifies the air as is passes over a cold coil surface. The indoor coil is
an air-to-liquid heat exchanger with rows of tubes that pass the liquid through the coil. Finned
surfaces connected to these tubes increase the overall surface area of the cold surface thereby
increasing the heat transfer characteristics between the air passing over the coil and liquid
passing through the coil. The type of liquid used depends on the system selected. Direct-
expansion equipment uses refrigerant as the liquid medium. Chilled-water (CW) can also be used
as a liquid medium. When the required temperature of a chilled water system is near the freezing
point of water, freeze protection is added in the form of glycols or salts. Regardless of the liquid
medium used, the liquid is delivered to the cooling coil at a cold temperature.
I learned that HVAC Equipment and Machine perform heating and/or cooling for
residential, commercial or industrial buildings. The HVAC system may also be responsible for
providing fresh outdoor air to dilute interior airborne contaminants such as odors from
occupants, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from interior furnishings, chemicals used
for cleaning, etc. A properly designed system will provide a comfortable indoor environment year
round when properly maintained.
I also learned a lot regarding humidity and moisture. Humidity is becoming more of a
concern to building operators and owners. High indoor humidity leads to mold and mildew
growth inside the building. These are several methods of controlling indoor humidity. The
simplest method is to connect a humidistat to an electric heater. When the humidity inside the
building rises above the humidistat set point, the heater is turned on. The additional heat causes
the air conditioning system to run longer and remove more moisture. A more efficient method
of controlling humidity is to use the waste heat from the refrigeration cycle itself. Instead of
rejecting the waste heat outdoors, the heat is directed inside when humidity control is required.
One form of heat reclaim is called hot-gas reheat or refrigerant superheating where refrigerant
is passed through a heat exchanger located downstream of the cooling coil. The hot high pressure
vapor leaving the compressor passes through this heat exchanger prior to entering the condenser
coil. This in turn heats the indoor air and again causes the AC system to run longer to meet the
thermostat set point. Although more energy is used, this is much more efficient than turning on
an electric heater. Another form of heat reclaim is called sub-cool reheat. This strategy takes the
warm liquid refrigerant from the condenser and passes it through a heat exchanger located
downstream of the cooling coil. Less heat is available using this method because the majority of
the heat has already been rejected at the condenser. Since more energy is used to pump liquid
(as opposed to a gas) through the heat exchanger it would appear that this method is less efficient
than the hot-gas method, however, the liquid in the heat exchanger is sub-cooled in the cold
supply air stream which increases the capacity of the air conditioner. Since more capacity is
available, the AC units is able to meet the thermostat more quickly.