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B021359 - PREVENTION SCIENCE AND OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
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Academic Year 2017-18
Course year
Second year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (FORLILPSI)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
MED/44 - OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
42
Teaching Term
21/09/2017 ⇒ 22/12/2017
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The protection of health and safety in the workplace: scientific and regulatory aspects; Organizational risks (work-related stress; shift- and night-work); Biomechanical and ergonomic risks; Risks from exposure to physical agents; Risks from exposure to ionizing radiation; Risks from exposure to hazardous substances; Risks from exposure to biological agents.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Mutti A., Corradi M. Lezioni di medicina del lavoro. Nuova Editrice Berti, 2014.
Bertazzi P.A. Medicina del lavoro - lavoro ambiente salute. Cortina Raffaello Editore, 2013.
Bertazzi P.A. Medicina del lavoro - lavoro ambiente salute. Cortina Raffaello Editore, 2013.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge of the general principles of the regulatory framework for the protection of health and safety in the workplace; Knowledge of the main occupational risk factors; Knowledge of the main preventive strategies in occupational medicine.
We expect the achievement of the skills in the field of health and safety at the workplace useful for the graduates of this Master Course.
We expect the achievement of the skills in the field of health and safety at the workplace useful for the graduates of this Master Course.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites approved by the Master Degree Course
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Type of Assessment
Written or oral examination with questions aimed to ascertain knowledge (topics) and skills (discussion of case studies and regulatory/technical issues).
Course program
The protection of health and safety in the workplace: scientific and regulatory aspects
• History and evolution of occupational medicine and of protection measures in the workplace
• Traditional, current and emerging risk factors
• The Italian Legislative Decree no. 81/2008 and subsequent amendments: General principles
• The Italian Legislative Decree no. 230/1995 and subsequent amendments: general principles
• Other Italian legislation: notes
• Occupational epidemiology: notes
The health and safety protection system
• The institutional system of prevention and public occupational health services: features and functions
• Profiles, roles and functions of the actors of the company's system of protection: the employer, the manager, the officer in charge, the head of the occupational prevention and protection service, the occupational physician, the employee representative for the occupational safety, the worker
• Risk assessment: principles, tools, the risk assessment document, medico-legal issues
• Measures of collective and individual protection
• Occupational health surveillance: principles, tools, fitness judgment, medico-legal issues
• Principles of occupational prevention
• Health promotion: general aspects
• Occupational education, information and training: notes
• Occupational epidemiology: notes
Organizational risks: regulatory framework, characteristics, related diseases, prevention and protection strategies
• Work-related stress
• Shift and night-work
Biomechanical and ergonomic risks: regulatory framework, characteristics, prevention and protection strategies.
Risks from exposure to physical agents: regulatory framework, characteristics, prevention and protection strategies.
Risks from exposure to hazardous substances: regulatory framework, characteristics, prevention and protection strategies.
Risks from exposure to biological agents: regulatory framework, characteristics, prevention and protection strategies.
• History and evolution of occupational medicine and of protection measures in the workplace
• Traditional, current and emerging risk factors
• The Italian Legislative Decree no. 81/2008 and subsequent amendments: General principles
• The Italian Legislative Decree no. 230/1995 and subsequent amendments: general principles
• Other Italian legislation: notes
• Occupational epidemiology: notes
The health and safety protection system
• The institutional system of prevention and public occupational health services: features and functions
• Profiles, roles and functions of the actors of the company's system of protection: the employer, the manager, the officer in charge, the head of the occupational prevention and protection service, the occupational physician, the employee representative for the occupational safety, the worker
• Risk assessment: principles, tools, the risk assessment document, medico-legal issues
• Measures of collective and individual protection
• Occupational health surveillance: principles, tools, fitness judgment, medico-legal issues
• Principles of occupational prevention
• Health promotion: general aspects
• Occupational education, information and training: notes
• Occupational epidemiology: notes
Organizational risks: regulatory framework, characteristics, related diseases, prevention and protection strategies
• Work-related stress
• Shift and night-work
Biomechanical and ergonomic risks: regulatory framework, characteristics, prevention and protection strategies.
Risks from exposure to physical agents: regulatory framework, characteristics, prevention and protection strategies.
Risks from exposure to hazardous substances: regulatory framework, characteristics, prevention and protection strategies.
Risks from exposure to biological agents: regulatory framework, characteristics, prevention and protection strategies.