Workplace Safety: from design to occupancy

Code:

MESHO109

Acronym:

SPU

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management

Instance: 2009/2010 - 1T

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Mining Engineering Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Occupational Safety and Hygiene Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MESHO	43	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2007/08	2	-	3	28	90

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To integrate the concepts/criteria/methods of occupational safety, hygiene and health with the concept of: “project-execution-use”;
- To be familiar and apply prevention methodologies for occupational risks when designing new workplaces;
- To identify the previous technical-legal requirement of an economic activity;
- Case study: The industrial licensing

Program

- Methodology of integration of occupational risks prevention while designing a new workplace;
- Assessment and control;
- General scope – legal/technical/social/economic context of the design of new workplaces;
- Industrial licensing (use of a legal procedure as technical planning);
- The legal context from the occupational safety, hygiene and health point of view;
- Sector analysis with the presentation of case studies of diverse productions sectors (from the extractive industry to services);
- Execution of the project;
- Safety coordination – Safety and Health plan; context and its application;
- Legal context;
- Legal requirements of occupational safety, hygiene and health and the exercise of an economic activity.
- Technical compilation;
- Facility: structural stability; electric installation; storage; technical places; social places; fires and explosions; physical environment etc.
- Emergency organisation.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical presentations and exercises.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Eligibility for exams

Attendance to 75% of the classes, according to General Evaluation Rules of FEUP
90% to obtain the vocational training certificate

Calculation formula of final grade

Individual assignment:
Presentation: 30%
Contents: 70%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Individual assignment:
Presentation: 30%
Contents: 70%

Classification improvement

Individual assignment:
Presentation: 30%
Contents: 70%

Observations

The individual presentations have to be done within the academic year;
Students may hand in their final assignments up until one month after the presentation.