Occupational Risk Assessment and Management

Objectives

The students should be able to: -Identify the key concepts of Occupational Risk Assessment and Management; -Know to analyze work in its complexity of the interrelationships and interdependencies of the elements that make each work situation; -To apply methods of identification and assessment of risk factors in order to estimate the probability of adverse health effects; -Participate in the implementation of management measures (or control) of risk in Occupational Health and Safety; -Identify the importance in occupational risk assessment.

General characterization

Code

9322

Credits

4.0

Responsible teacher

Available soon

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - 32

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

 KOW, D.; AW, T-C – Surveillance in Occupational Health. Occup. Environ. Med. 60 (2003) 705-710.  NICOLL, P.G. – Auditing risk assessment and management. In SADHRA, S.S. ; RAMPAL, K. – Occupational Health. Risk Assessment and Management. London: Blackwell Science Ltd., 1999, 315-343.  RAMPAL, K.G.; SADHRA, S.S. – Basic concepts and developments in health risk assessment and management. In SADHRA, S.S.; RAMPAL, K. – Occupational Health. Risk Assessment and Management. London: Blackwell Science Ltd., 1999, 3-21.  STAYNER, L.S.; HORNUNG, R. – Assessing the risks of occupational hazards. In ZENZ; C.; DICKERSON, O. B.; HORVATH JR., E. P. - Occupational Medicine. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book, 3rd ed., 1994. 1145-1148.  UVA, A.S. – Diagnóstico e Gestão do Risco em Saúde Ocupacional. 2ª ed. Lisboa: ACT, 2010.

Teaching method

theoretical sessions, theoretical-practical sessions and seminars.

Evaluation: Individual evaluation (short answer) contributes with 60%, group work with 20% and the continuous evaluation with 20%.

Evaluation method

Evaluation: Individual evaluation (short answer) contributes with 60%, group work with 20% and the continuous evaluation with 20%.

Subject matter

1.Essential concepts of risk assessment. Dose-effect relationships and dose-response. 

2.The classification of occupational risks according to severity and probability of adverse effects; 

3.Diagnosis of risk situations: the identification of occupational hazards. Concept of threshold. The threshold limits values. The assessment of exposures. Acceptability, tolerability and intolerability of risk; 

4.Risk management: the main instruments. The planning, organization and implementation of occupational hazards control and prevention programs; Methodologies of risk management. Occupational Health and Safety Audits.