Safety in High Risk Activities

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.

The assessment of the Curricular Unit will be developed considering the following assessment instruments, with the respective weighting for the final assessment:
Written test of knowledge – 50%
Group work – 50%

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

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