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This field of engineering has as its object the prevention of accidents. In recent years safety engineering has become a speciality adopted by individuals trained in other branches of engineering. Safety engineers develop methods and procedures to safeguard workers in hazardous occupations. They also assist in designing machinery, factories, ships and roads, suggesting alterations and improvements to reduce the possibility of accident. In the design of machinery, for example, the safety engineer tries to cover all moving parts or to keep them from accidental contact with the operator, to put cutoff switches within reach of the operator and to eliminate dangerous sharp parts. In designing roads the safety engineer seeks to avoid such hazards as sharp turns and blind intersections that lead to traffic accidents.
21. Ответьте на следующие вопросы:
1. What is electrical engineering concerned with? 2. What branches can electrical engineering be divided into? 3. What are electric power and machinery concerned with? 4. What developments in this field have engineers brought about?
5. What does electronic engineering deal with? 6. What tasks do circuits perform? What are they also used for? 7. What trend did the electronics revolution of the 1970s and 1980s set? 8. What does the complex task of manufacturing chips use?
9. Where are control systems used? 10. What is the aim of computer science?
11. What does microminiaturization mean? 12. What do engineers do in mechanical engineering? What subjects must they know? 13. What field of engineering has as its object the prevention of accidents? 14. What methods and procedures do safety engineers develop?
