Description
Objectives
Provide information that allows the student to get the tools necessary to: identify the hazards existing at different types of industrial processes (chemical, biological or other type); analyze the risks due to each type of hazard; assess the risks in order to plan for prevention or mitigation actions. Provide information that allows the student to get the tools necessary to: identify occupational hazards and risks; design intrinsically safe measures and good practices. The global aim of this Curricular Unit is to give students the tools to improve safety in industry and heath at work, decrease the number of accidents and absenteeism and consequently increase productivity and well-being of the workers. (max. 1000)
Syllabus
Introduction to industrial safety. Introduction to occupational safety. Concepts of hazard and risk. Concepts of prevention and mitigation. Identification of the types of hazards at industrial processs, i.e. hazards always present (electricity, light, heat, humidity, etc); hazards due to the charcateristics of the substances (chemical, or biological) or process (pressure, heat, equipment, etc) . Risk assessment based on qualitative or semi-quantitative metods (HAZOP, FMEA; PRHI, other) directed to prevention of industrial or occupational accidents. Lectures learned from major industrial accidents supported by visualization, analysis and discussion of safety videos. Planning for zero industrial accidents based on the antecipation of safety measures (prevention and mitigation). Emergy planning. European legislation on safety (Seveso Directives, REACH, GHS-CLP, etc). Management of industrial hazardous wastes as part of the global industrial safety program and environmental sustainability.
Prerequisites
BBasic knowledge on chemical reactivity, kinetics, thermodinamic and physics.
Cross Competence Component
The soft skills that will be most used are those in the areas of critical and structured thinking and literacy of information and media. These skills will contribute to the overall evalaution with 10%.
Ethical Principles
All members of a group are responsible for the group´s work. In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used. In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.