Course Overview
Safety and Cost Control covers the key elements of mill safety and accident prevention with emphasis on applicable WCB regulations, lockouts, and safety performance measurement systems. Additional topics include hearing protection and fire protection systems. The final segment of the course will review various cost accounting calculations related to mill performance, profit analysis, budgeting, and capital expenditures. Basic elements of annual financial statements, including the meaning and importance of various key ratios will be introduced.
Prerequisite(s)
- WOOD 2140 and Completion of Tier 3 courses.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course the student will be able to:
- Determine which WCB (BC) regulations are applicable, and their application, to forest products conversion plants in BC.
- Demonstrate how to set up a mill accident prevention program for a wood products operation.
- Calculate various statistical figures for sawmills and plywood plants, including accident frequency, yearly assessment figures, and ERA calculations.
- Develop an approved lockout training program.
- Describe the theory behind noise protection and noise induced hearing loss, related to wood products plants, as well as methods to decrease the effects of loud noise.
- Describe the setup of a mill sprinkler system, and set up a basic fire protection program for a wood processing mill.
- Calculate various cost accounting calculations related to mill performance, profit analysis, budgeting, and capital expenditures.
- Describe the basic elements of financial statements.
- Calculate key ratios to assess wood processing business health.
- Describe various cost accounting/control systems.
Effective as of Fall 2007
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