Safety in the Workplace
Code: 104044 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2502501 Prevention and Integral Safety and Security | OT | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Manuel del Pino Santiago
- Email:
- Manuel.DelPino@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- spanish (spa)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Prerequisites
This subject doesn't have any pre-requierments
Objectives and Contextualisation
Training objectives
Identify and properly assess the risks.
Know the different preventive disciplines.
Know the main preventive activities. to eliminate or control the risks.
Know the differences between an emergency plan and a self-protection plan and be able to elaborate the basic slogans for a center or activity.
Known for each subject the basic regulations of reference.
Competences
- Assume the social, ethical and professional responsibility that derives from professional practice.
- Be able to adapt to unexpected situations.
- Carry out analyses of preventative measures in the area of security.
- Communicate information , ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised publics.
- Generate innovative and competitive proposals in research and in professional activity developing curiosity and creativity.
- Have a general understanding of basic knowledge in the area of prevention and integral safety and security.
- Identify, manage and resolve conflicts.
- Plan and coordinate the resources of the three large subsystems that interact in questions of security: people, technology and infrastructures.
- Respond to problems applying knowledge to practice.
- Use the capacity for analysis and synthesis to solve problems.
- Work in institutional and interprofessional networks.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply systems of responsibility and management models particular to models of labour risk prevention management.
- Assume the social, ethical and professional responsibility that derives from professional practice.
- Be able to adapt to unexpected situations.
- Coordinate the resources of the three main subsystems of the prevention and integral security sector: people, technology and infrastructures.
- Generate innovative and competitive proposals in research and in professional activity developing curiosity and creativity.
- Identify the most common labour risk factors.
- Identify, manage and resolve conflicts.
- Implement and evaluate a plan for labour risk prevention in an organisation.
- Respond to problems applying knowledge to practice.
- Use the capacity for analysis and synthesis to solve problems.
- Work in institutional and interprofessional networks.
Content
Introduction. Working conditions and Health.
Types of risks.
Accidents / Incidents.
Accident / Incident Investigation.
Risk analysis. Risk assessment.
Monitoring corrective measures.
Risk analysis, assessment and control. Workspaces
Risk analysis, assessment and control. Technical Building Code
Emergency and self-protection plans
Risk analysis, assessment and control. Product safety (machines and work equipment).
Receipts and devices.
Personal protective equipment.
Signage
Risk analysis, assessment and control. Other work teams
Mobile equipment and load lifting equipment.
Facilities.
Scaffolding and Manual Ladders
Storage
Fires-Explosions
Methodology
The training is based mainly on the reading of the course manual.
This will be the basic document to be able to overcome it.
However, a series of reference documents is to be presented as a complementary reading during the course.
It iIt is important to mention that the main objective of the video classes is to resolve the doubts related to the syllabus, therefore it is essential to prepare the topics before each session.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Directed | 16 | 0.64 | 3, 1, 2, 4, 9, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 10 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Supervised | 24 | 0.96 | 3, 1, 2, 4, 9, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 10 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Autonomus | 110 | 4.4 | 3, 1, 2, 4, 9, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 10 |
Assessment
Students will take four continuous assessment tests (PEC) that will be delivered through the moodle classroom.
The students will make an evaluation through written test in person on the subject that will take place on the date scheduled at the School. This test may be oral at the teacher's discretion.
Re-evaluation
In case of not passing the subject according to the aforementioned criteria (continuous evaluation), a recovery test may be done on the date scheduled in the schedule, and it will cover the entire contents of the program. To participate in the recovery the students must have been previously evaluated in a set of activities, the weight of which equals a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject. However, the qualification that will consist of the student's file is a maximum of 5-Approved.
Students who need to change an evaluation date must submit the request by filling in the document that you will find in the moodle space of Tutorial EPSI.
Plagiarism
Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, "in the event that the student makes any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation act, it will be graded with a 0 This evaluation act, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed In case of various irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0 ". The tests / exams may be written and / or oral at the discretion of the teaching staff.
Students that retake the course
Regarding those students who have to retake the course, it should be emphasized that the assessment methodology is the same as for other students.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous Assessment Final Test | 40% | 0 | 0 | 3, 1, 4, 9, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 10 |
| Continuous evaluation excercices | 60% | 0 | 0 | 3, 1, 2, 4, 9, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 10 |
Bibliography
Benavides, Fernando. (1997). Salud Laboral. Conceptos y técnicas para la prevención de riesgos laborales.
Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo, Web del Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social, recuperat juliol 2012 a: http://www.insht.es/portal/site/Insht/
Departament d’empresa i Ocupació.
Software
This subject will use the basic software of the Office 365 package