ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering, Forensic Science, Pathological Anatomy, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Paediatrics
Areas: Chemical Engineering, Toxicology
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
-To know the legal framework that regulates the field of industrial hygiene, both at regional, national and European Union level.
-To evaluate the situations of risk on the health of the workers as for exposure to chemical, physical and biological agents, as well as the preventive measures.
-To know the most important scientific and technical foundations of the safety of chemical processes to help the student understand the concepts and apply them properly. This requires good basic knowledge of engineering and technology.
The contents of the subject must conform, according to the grade report, to the following descriptors:
"Bases of industrial safety. Accidents: Leaks, fires, explosions. Risk: definition, classification, tolerability. Chemistry, Physics and Engineering of the accidents. Industrial Toxicology. Risk analysis and evaluation: qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative methods. Safety management. Applicable legislation".
In this way the program is structured in two blocks, one of Toxicology and Industrial Hygiene and the other of Safety Engineering with their respective topics, as indicated below:
BLOCK TOXICOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
LESSON 1- ORGANIZATION OF PREVENTION: Law of Prevention of Labor Risks. Organization of prevention within the company. Legal responsibilities. Industrial hygiene and professional illness. Work accident. 1h.
LESSON 2- INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE AND TOXICOLOGY. Concept and background. Branches of industrial hygiene. Classification of pollutants. 2h.
LESSON 3- CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS. Classification. Environmental limit values: Concept and types. Biological limit values: Evaluation criteria. 4h.
LESSON 4. PHYSICAL POLLUTANTS. Noise and vibrations. Ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. Heat. 1h.
LESSON 5- BIOLOGICAL POLLUTANTS. 1h.
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ENGINEERING AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT BLOCK
LESSON 1 - INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY. Basis. General legal scope. Industrial accidents. The PPAG. The Systems of Management of the Security. Integration of the labor and industrial safety. Cybersecurity. 4 hours.
LESSON 2- LOSS OF CONTAINMENT IN PROCESSES. Source models. Leaks. Sudden evaporation. Evaporation of spills in puddles. 3 hours.
LESSON 3-CHEMICAL REACTIVITY. Self-decomposition. Reactions in water and air. Uncontrolled reactions. Characterization and consideration of safe design. 3 hours.
LESSON 4- FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS. DESIGN TO PREVENT FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS. Flammability diagrams. Oxygen limit concentrations. Inerting. Ignition, auto-ignition, auto-oxidation, adiabatic compression. Sprays and mists. Detonations, deflagrations and mechanical explosions TNT equivalence and TNO-Multi-energy method. Vapour cloud explosions. Bleve. Purge. Static electricity: Fundamentals and control. Specific legislation. 4 hours.
LESSON 5-INTRODUCTION TO RELIEF SYSTEMS. Definition and location. Data for the dimensioning of relief systems. Dimensioning. Specific legislation. 2 hours.
LESSON 6-EVALUATION OF RISKS. Review of risk level analysis. Dow's fire and explosion index. Fault and event trees. HAZID and HAZOP. Introduction to QRA. 3 hours.
Basic Bibliography
TOXICOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE BLOCK
Gil Hernández, F (2019) Tratado de Medicina del Trabajo. Third edition. Elsevier. ISBN: 978-84-9113-142-7. Catalog number: A145 8 B; online resource ISBN 9788491132011
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SAFETY ENGINEERING BLOCK
Crowl, A. D. (2011) Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with applications. Third edition. Pearson Education International. ISBN: 978-0-13-278283-8; Catalog number: A145 11 B; A145 11 C; 151.3 10 A
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Complementary resources (both blocks)
WEBSITE OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK (INSST):
https://www.insst.es
WEBSITE OF THE GALICIAN INSTITUTE OF SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK:
http://www.issga.es/index.php
Official bulletins: BOE, DOUE, DOG.
Specific Competences
CI.9.- Basic knowledges on production systems.
CI.10.- Basic knowledges and application of environmental technologies and sustainability.
CI.11.- Applied knowledge on enterprise organization.
General Competences
CG.4.- Ability to problem solving, initiative, decission making, creativity, critic reasoning and for transference of kowledge and skills in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
CG.6.- Ability to manage mandatory specifications, guidelines and regulations.
CG.7.- Ability to analyse and evaluate the social and environmental impact of technical solutions.
CG.11.- Knowledge, understanding and ability to apply the needed legislation for industrial engineers.
Cross Competences
CT.7. Decission making.
CT.8. Work in group.
CT.19. Adaptative capacity to new situations and scenarios.
TOXICOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE BLOCK
Lectures: Master class with audiovisual support (slides and videos)
Development of competencies
CG11 - Knowledge, understanding and capacity to apply the necessary legislation in the exercise of the profession of Industrial Technical Engineer
CI9 - Basic knowledge of production and manufacturing systems
CI10 - Basic knowledge and application of environmental technologies and sustainability
CG4 - Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate transmitting knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering
CI11 - Applied knowledge of business organization
CG6 - Capacity for handling specifications, regulations and standards of obligatory compliance.
CG7 - Capacity to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions
Interactive teaching: Working sessions on issues of practical application: preventive measures, first aid and case studies (3 hours)
Seminar 1. Practical aspects in risk prevention. First aid. 2h.
Seminar 2. Analysis and evaluation of cases of harmful effects of chemical, physical and biological agents on health. 1h.
Development of competences
CT7 - Decision-making
CT8 - Teamwork
CT19 - Autonomous learning
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ENGINEERING AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT BLOCK
Lectures: Master class format with audiovisual support (slides and videos)
Development of competencies
CG4 - Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate transmitting knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering
CI9 - Basic knowledge of production and manufacturing systems
CI10 - Basic knowledge and application of environmental technologies and sustainability
Interactive teaching: Seminars and group tutoring. Formatting of working sessions with the support of engineering documents, technical guides and spreadsheets.
Seminars (6 hours)
1- Case studies. Accident analysis integrating organizational, technological, ethical and environmental perspectives. 1 h.
2- Resolution of exercises of containment losses in process and sizing of relief valves. 2 h.
3- TNT method to assess damage caused by explosions. 1 h.
4- Risk analysis by qualitative and semi-quantitative methods. 2 h.
Group tutoring (1 h)
Classification of establishments according to Seveso.
Development of competencies
CG6 - Capacity for handling specifications, regulations and standards of obligatory compliance.
CG4 - Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
CG7 - Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions
CI11 - Applied knowledge of business organization
CT7 - Decision-making
CT8 - Teamwork
CT19 - Autonomous learning
CG7 - Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions
We will use the Learning Management System of the USC through the Moodle application with the following objectives:
- To provide information about the subject (teacher's schedule, schedules, exams, various announcements, etc.)
- To provide the necessary materials for the classes (presentations of the subjects, instructions of the activities, etc.).
- To serve as a communication tool with the students through the news forum.
- To propose homework.
- To propose evaluation tests.
The MS Teams tool will also be used as a means of non face-to-face student/teacher communication in individual tutorials.
EVALUATION BY BLOCKS
TOXICOLOXY AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE BLOCK (3.5 points)
1. Exam: 50% (minimum to add up to 40%)
2. Continuous evaluation activities: 45% (minimum to add up grades 40%)
3. Teacher's report: 5%.
A minimum of 1.3 points (out of 3.5) is required to pass
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ENGINEERING AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT BLOCK (6.5 POINTS)
1. Exam: 50% (minimum to add up grades 40%)
2. Continuous evaluation: 45% (minimum to add up grades 40%). Delivery of the activities developed in the seminars and delivery of activity developed in group tutoring .
3. Teacher's report (5%)
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The final grade of the course will be the sum of the final grades of each block with the following conditions:
1- In case of failing one of the blocks, the approved block will be kept for the July opportunity but not for the following course
2- Activity grades and teacher report cards will be kept for the July opportunity, but not for subsequent courses. No type of recovery is foreseen for the continuous evaluation activities, in which case the evaluation will be 100% exam mode on the entire content of lectures plus seminars.
In the case of fraudulent exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the Evaluation of Students' Academic Performance and Grade Review shall apply.
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Evaluation by competencies
Examination (both blocks)
CG4 - Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate transmitting knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering
Participation (both blocks)
CG11 - Knowledge, understanding and capacity to apply the necessary legislation in the exercise of the profession of Industrial Technical Engineer
CG6 - Capacity for handling specifications, regulations and standards of obligatory compliance.
CI9 - Basic knowledge of production and manufacturing systems
CI10 - Basic knowledge and application of environmental technologies and sustainability
CI11 - Applied knowledge of business organization
Activities of continuous evaluation and oral presentation (Toxicology and Industrial Hygiene Block)
CT7 - Decision making
CT8 - Team work
CT19 - Autonomous learning
Individual Deliverables (Engineering and Security Management Block)
CG4 - Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering
Working sessions (Engineering and Safety Management Block)
CG6 - Capacity for handling specifications, regulations and standards of obligatory compliance.
CG4 - Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
CG7 - Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions
CI11 - Applied knowledge of business organization
CT7 - Decision-making
CT8 - Teamwork
CT19 - Autonomous learning
CG7 - Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions
The subject has a workload of 4.5 ECTS which represents an overall work load for the student of 4,5 x 25 =112,5 hours. The distribution of the personal work hours for each activity involved in the subject is detailed as follows:
Activity................. Face-to-face.. Personal work...ECTS
Expositive lectures..... 28,0....... 37,5....... 2,6
Seminars.................. 9,0........ 10,0 ...... 0,8
Tutorials (in groups).... 1,0........ 4,0......... 0,2
Subtotal.................... 38,0....... 51,5....... 3,6
Tutorials (individual).... 2,0........ 6,0......... 0,3
Exam and review....... 5,0....... 10,0....... 0,6
Total......................... 45,0...... 67,5....... 4,5
Attendance and active participation in class. Up-to-date work. Self-study technique with support in individualized tutoring and information sources.
The lectures are given in Spanish. Interactive classes are taught in Spanish/Galician. Teaching materials are provided in Spanish and English.
Inés Sánchez Sellero
- Department
- Forensic Science, Pathological Anatomy, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Paediatrics
- Area
- Toxicology
- ines.sanchez.sellero [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Gemma Maria Eibes Gonzalez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- gemma.eibes [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
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| 18:00-19:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom A3 |
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| 18:00-19:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | Classroom A3 |
| 01.08.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom A1 |
| 01.08.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Classroom A1 |
| 07.07.2025 09:15-14:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Classroom A3 |
| 07.07.2025 09:15-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom A3 |