Duration: 6 months
Language medium: English
Target group:
The explosives and armaments industry (including commercial, arms manufacturing, military, police, mining, structural engineering and explosives regulatory sectors)
All students wishing to register for the Short Learning Programmes in Explosives have to be employed in the explosives industry
Admission requirements:
Senior Certificate or an equivalent NQF level 4 qualification. Note: Students should be competent with language, numeracy and communication skills at NQF Level 5.
Registration periods:
Semester registrations periods
Course leader details:
Mrs Magdel van Heerden
MCom Business Management
Lecturer (School of Management Sciences)
Department of Business Management
Nkoana Simon Radipere Building, office number 3-33
Tel: 012 429 4370
E-mail: legrams@unisa.ac.za
Mrs Rachelle Reeler
MCom Business Management
Lecturer (School of Management Sciences)
Department of Business Management
Nkoana Simon Radipere Building, office number 3-33
Tel: 012 429 2057
E-mail: deysert@unisa.ac.za
Programme administrator:
Admin Officer: Lyndsey Lourie
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
Christiaan De Wet Drive, Florida, Johannesburg
Tswelopele Building 3rd floor Room 15
Tel: 011 471 2747
Email address: lourilc@unisa.ac.za
Purpose statement:
To apply elementary explosives technologies during manufacturing processes in an explosives environment and to ensure students are able to supervise limited manufacturing processes, apply principles of quality control and solve management problems on middle management level
Modules:
PIIE01P - Explosives Technologies and Skills
Content:
Different types of explosives
Differences between the explosives
What makes an explosive
Characteristics of different explosives
Principles of specific applications
PIIE02Q - Explosives or Combination of Explosives for a Particular Application
Content:
Practical skills required to operate, maintain and manage the following:
Introduction including types of explosives, the power and sensitivity of explosives and explosive trains
Military applications of explosives (ammunition)
Mining applications of explosives
Other applications of explosives (cladding, welding, forming and explosive art)
PIIE03R - Appropriate Common Explosives Accessories
Content:
The use of boosters, primers, detonators and power cartridges
The composition and manufacture, properties and use of common commercial explosive accessories
The handling and transportation of explosives accessories
Military application applications of explosives (ammunition)
Mining applications of explosives
Other applications of explosives (cladding, welding, forming and explosive art)
PIIE04S - Services & Measuring Apparatus in Explosive Plants
Content:
Practical laboratory skills
The ethics of analysis and measurement - is your answer the true answer?
Principles of measuring instrumentation (basics of measurements)
Measurement of temperature
Measurement of pressure and vacuum
Measurement of humidity and moisture content
Measurement of liquid levels
Measurement of the flow of liquids
Other measuring techniques (i.e. measurement of certain physical parameters)