Safety in High Risk Activities

Knowledge of the areas of safety, hygiene and health at work.

Expository and interrogative methodologies will be used, using audiovisual and interactive means. Classes, all theoretical-practical, will be developed using techniques and working methods that guide the implementation of safety principles in high-risk activities.

Knowledge:
• Identification, assessment, prevention and control of situations that may expose workers to high risk activities;
• Measures to mitigate the risk of exposure to high-risk activities.
Skills:
– Recognize the main risks to the health and safety of workers arising from exposure to high-risk activities and apply appropriate prevention and protection measures;
– Select and collaborate in the implementation of safety and health signs suitable for high risk activities;
– Infer about the management of health and safety risks contained in occupational matrices;
– Critically appraise the Occupational Health indicators in high risk activities.

– Construction work, excavation, earthworks, tunnels, with risks of falls from heights or burying, demolitions and intervention in railways and highways without interruption of traffic;
– Extractive industry activities;
– Hyperbaric work;
– Activities that involve the use or storage of hazardous chemical products likely to cause serious accidents;
– Manufacture, transport and use of explosives and pyrotechnics;
– Steel industry and shipbuilding activities;
– Activities that involve contact with medium and high voltage electrical currents;
– Production and transport of compressed, liquefied or dissolved gases or their significant use;
– Activities involving exposure to ionizing radiation;
– Activities involving exposure to carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic agents for reproduction;
– Activities involving exposure to group 3 or 4 biological agents;
– Works involving exposure to silica

The assessment of the Curricular Unit will be developed considering the following assessment instruments, with the respective weighting for the final assessment: Three practical assignments with the following weighting:

Assignment 1 - 33%

Assignment 2 - 34%

Assignment 3 - 33%

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