- Docente: Claudio Gaddoni
- Credits: 3
- SSD: MED/50
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Environment and Workplace Prevention Techniques (cod. 8487)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student is able to: Know the social, economic and regulatory context at the base of the prevention activities in the environment and in the workplace Know the technical and procedural prevention and protection measures, Know the physical and chemical risks present in the living and working environments, Know the prevention and protection techniques for the physical and chemical risks analyzed.
Course contents
General objectives
- Know the social, economic and regulatory context at the basis of prevention activities in the environment and in the workplace.
- Know the reference legislative framework on occupational health and safety and the subjects with roles and responsibilities.
- Know the main prevention strategies and techniques in the environment and in the workplace currently adopted or to be adopted and their evolution compared to the past.
- Know the reference standards and techniques for measuring, sampling and assessing physical and chemical risks present in the workplace
Teaching program
- Sources of health and safety at work law, regulatory evolution and general legislative framework (Legislative Decree 81/08).
- Principles of prevention in the workplace: concepts of health, danger / risk, damage (accident at work and occupational disease), definitions of prevention and protection.
- The organization of the company prevention system: the role of the subjects of company safety (DL, RSPP, RLS, MC, etc.) the obligations, tasks and profiles of responsibility.
- Classification of risks present in the workplace (health risks, safety risks, transversal risks).
- Prevention and protection measures that can be adopted in the workplace: collective (technical, procedural, organizational, hygienic / sanitary) and individual protection.
- Noise in the workplace: physical parameters, the reference legislation, the tools and techniques of measurement and protection in the workplace.
- Mechanical vibrations in the workplace: physical parameters, the reference legislation, the tools and techniques of measurement and protection in the workplace.
- The microclimate in the workplace: physical parameters and main microclimatic indices, the reference legislation, the tools and techniques of measurement and protection in the workplace.
- Chemical risk in the workplace: the classification and labeling of hazardous substances; the reference legislation, risk assessment, tools and main sampling techniques for airborne chemicals (dust and gas) in the workplace
Readings/Bibliography
Legislative Decree 9 April 2008, No. 81 Implementation of article 1 of the law 3 August 2007, n. 123, concerning the protection of health and safety in the workplace. Titles I, Title VIII and IX
Industrial hygiene. Guide to the assessment and control of physical, chemical and biological risks in the workplace Author: B. Marchesini - Maggioli Editore, Rimini, (1999)
Compendium of industrial hygiene Authors: Cassano, Aloise, Bavaro - Editrice Adriatica D.A. (2010)
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Assessment methods
Oral exam with questions relating to the verification of the knowledge acquired on the topics addressed in the lessons with particular attention to the principles of prevention in the workplace, to the company organization in the field of health and safety at work and to measurement, sampling, prevention and protection techniques risks in the workplace.
Teaching tools
Power point presentations and photographic illustrations relating to concrete cases and risk factors for health and safety at work
Office hours
See the website of Claudio Gaddoni