Risk Assessment and Emergency

Code:

MESHO0009

Acronym:

ARE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Safety and Hygiene Engineering

Instance: 2025/2026 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=2810
Responsible unit:	Department of Civil and Georesources Engineering
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	21	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2007/08	1	-	6	56	162
MIEA	0	Syllabus since 2006/07	4	-	6	56	-

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The main goals of the course are:

• Understanding Risk analysis methodologies (Occupational, Natural and Technological);

• To design an integrated occupational safety and environmental system;

• To understand and apply risk management analysis methods;

• To identify and develop management systems to plan and organise the response to serious and imminent risk situations;

• To understand the role of the different elements in a system and the relative contribution to the global risk;

• To identify and analyse the role of the human component in the causality of accidents and malfunctions or disturbances;

• To establish emergency management principles.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the curricular unit, the student should be able to implement an Risk Management Process (Occupational, Natural and Technological) in any sector of activity:
Identify and classify different types of risks (occupational, natural and technological) in organisational contexts
Apply risk analysis methodologies appropriate to different scenarios
Develop an integrated occupational and environmental safety management system
Evaluate and select appropriate risk management techniques and methods
Design management systems to respond to serious and imminent risk situations
Analyse the relative contribution of different elements of a system to occupational risk

 

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

N/A

Program

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  Main concepts related to Risk Management (Occupational, Natural and Technological);

  
  


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  Introduction of accident and disturbance causality models;

  
  


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  Risk Analysis Methodologies (application exercises);

  
  


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  Risk Management;

  
  


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  Approaches to identify measures to reduce/control risks;

  
  


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  Applicable laws and regulations;

  
  


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  Emergency Management.

  
  

Mandatory literature

Laird Wilson, Doug McCutcheon ; Industrial Safety and Risk Management , The University of Alberta Press, 2003. ISBN: 0-88864-394-2
Instituto Português da Qualidade Portugal; Gestão do risco
International Electrotechnical Commission; Risk management. ISBN: 2-8318-1068-2
Wenmei Gai; Decision-making analysis and optimization modeling of emergency warnings for major accidents. ISBN: 978-981-13-2871-8

Complementary Bibliography

Jesús Torres Pombo, Antonio Lama Varela; Riscos relacionados coa exposición a axentes biolóxicos. ISBN: 84-453-3322-4
Ed. C. Guedes Soares, A. P. Teixeira, P. Antão; Análise e Gestão de Riscos, Segurança e Fiabilidade. ISBN: 972-689-230-9
ed. C. Guedes Soares...[et al.] ; org. Instituto Superior Técnico; Riscos Industriais e Emergentes. ISBN: 978-972-689-233-5
António Ataíde... [et al.] ; [publ.] Caixa Nacional de Seguros de Doenças Profissionais. Laborat; Riscos de doenças profissionais
José Gomes MeleiroFernando Paiva Brandão; Riscos do trabalho
Ministério das Corporações e Previdência Social. Gabinete de Higiene e Segurança do Trabalho da; Prevenção dos riscos profissionais
A. C. Neto; Riscos de electricidade
C. Guedes Soares; T. Moan; Análise de riscos e segurança de estruturas de navios
; Caixa Nacional de Seguros de Doenças Profissionais. Laboratório de Avaliação de Riscos; Riscos de doenças profissionais nas fundições portuguesas de ferro e aço

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical Classes: Lectures with presentation and discussion of practical cases.
Practical classes: Case study discussion and working groups reports.

keywords

Technological sciences > Technology > Safety technology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Exame	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	60,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de campo	46,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Approval of the curricular unit requires compliance with the attendance requirement, considering that a student complies with this requirement if, having been regularly enrolled, they do not exceed the limit of absences corresponding to 25% of the face-to-face classes scheduled for each type. In addition to the cases provided for in the rules in force at FEUP.

The ACT's attribution of the CCP is conditional on attendance at 90% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Group work: 50%

Mini-tests: 50%

Examinations or Special Assignments

In specific cases duly justified and grounded by the students, such as relevant professional experience in the field, it may be accepted by the regent of the CU, after hearing the other professors, the presentation of a Case Study of Risk Management (Occupational, Natural and Technological);

-The case study should be prepared according to the rules for scientific presentation of this kind.
-The Bibliographic Review must follow the guidelines of the PRISMA statement.

The works to be developed must have the necessary quality to be part of the works' portfolio and presented as an example to UC students in the current and future academic years.

Works without the minimum quality for presentation to a congress will have a negative grade.

Internship work/project

N/A

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The exceptional evaluation has two components:

-Examination with a weighting equal to ordinary students (50%);

-Individual work, with a weighting equal to the ordinary students (50%).

The individual works must be submitted by the date of the appeal examination (the student should contact the teachers until the penultimate week of semester classes, given the theme of the work to be developed).

Classification improvement

The final grade will result from the weighted average of the tests and the group work done.
Each assessment component will be marked with a minimum of 7 marks.


It is possible to improve the classification by examining all the contents at the time of the appeal.

It is possible to improve the classification of group work carried out during the semester.

Observations