Management systems in the chemical industry

The main objective of the course is to get knowledge of the different management systems used in the chemical industry, together with their implementation, maintenance and auditing processes and the reference Standards associated. The discipline will focus on the three basic systems: quality management, environmental management, and risk prevention management, as well as their integration in an overall, unique system.

The content of this discipline in the guide of the degree is as follows: Quality management: implementation, maintenance and certification. Quality management: ISO 9001. Environmental management: ISO 14001 and EMAS. Sustainability (waste minimization plans, etc). Risk prevention management: OHSAS 18001. Integrated management system: Quality, environmental and risk prevention.
Thus, the content has been structured in six chapters:
Chapter 1: Basic concepts. Management systems. National and international Standards (ISO, EN, UNE…). Certification. Continual improvement process. PDCA system.
Chapter 2: Quality management. ISO 9001. EFQM model. Total quality. Quality costs. Quality tools.
Chapter 3: Environmental management. ISO 14001. EMAS. Emissions and their control. Residues and their management. Sustainability.
Chapter 4: Risk prevention management. OHSAS 18001 and ISO 45001. Safety for workers and facilities. Health and ergonomics. Risks: probability and severity.
Chapter 5: Auditing management systems. General concepts and types. Stages in the audit process. Audit techniques.
Chapter 5: Integration of management systems. Similarities and differences of the systems. Integrated systems: advantages and inconveniencies. Integration plan and UNE 66177. Evidences for an integrated system.

Basic bibliography:
• ABRIL SÁNCHEZ, C. et al.: Guía para la integración de sistemas de gestión: calidad, medio ambiente y seguridad y salud en el trabajo FC Editorial y Laborprex auditores, 2010. Signatura: EMX 2841 ; EMX 2553 ; Q9 17; DEP 16059 ISBN 978-84-92735-26-6
• PASTOR FERNÁNDEZ, A. et al.: Sistemas integrados de gestión, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz, 2013. Signatura: EMX 2924 ISBN 978-84-9828-404-1
• CAMISÓN, C. Et al.: Gestión de la calidad: conceptos, enfoques, modelos y sistemas, Pearson Educación, 2006. ISBN (electrónico) 84-8322-256-6. Texto dispoñible via INGEBOOK. Signatura: A144 13; EMX 1096; EMX 932; EMX 933. ISBN: 978-84-205-4262-1
• Normas UNE available online in AENORmás DataBase

Complementary bibliography:
• ALONSO, J.M. y PROVEDO, P.: Gestión de la calidad 3ª ed, Santillana, 2005. Signatura A QAS 27 ISBN: 84-294-8139-7
• ROMERO GONZÁLEZ, E. Evaluación y gestión medioambiental para planes, programas y proyectos de ingeniería. Universidad de Sevilla, 2015. Signatura: A242 39 ISBN: 9788447217656
• CLAVER CORTÉS, E. et al.: Gestión de la calidad y gestión medioambiental: fundamentos, herramientas, normas ISO y relaciones. 3ª ed. Pirámide, 2011. Signatura: A244 18 C; A244 18 D; A EM 99 A; EMX 929 ISBN: 9788436824582
• GARCÍA NINET, J.I., et al.: Manual de prevención de riesgos laborales: seguridad, higiene y salud en el trabajo. 3ª ed. Atelier, 2017. Signatura: CA/E57.1 300 ; ISBN 9788416652464
• MENÉNDEZ DÍEZ, F.: Higiene industrial: manual para la formación del especialista. 3ª ed. Lex Nova, 2009. Signatura: A57.1 48; A57.1 48 cd; EMT 846 1; A QAS 10 1 A QAS 10 2. ISBN: 9788498980769; 84-8406-612-6
• Comisión Europea: Comunicación COM(2015) 614 final (2.12.2015): Cerrar el círculo: un plan de acción de la UE para la economía circular. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/ES/ALL/?uri=CELEX:52015DC0614
• European Environment Agency, EEA Report No 9/2014: Waste prevention in Europe - the status in 2013. https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/waste-prevention-in-europe-2014
• Ihobe: Estudios de Minimización de Residuos Peligrosos. Guía de apoyo. Herramienta Excel: https://www.ihobe.eus/publicaciones
• Ihobe: De la iso 14001 al emas. http://www.ihobe.net/Documentos/Eventos/Taller%20de%20la%20ISO%2014001%…
• Lea-Artibai Ikastetxea: Evaluación de riesgos. UNIDAD DIDÁCTICA 01. Año 2009. Deposito-legal: BI-209-09. https://www.osalan.euskadi.eus/contenidos/informacion/fp_gaztetxoko/es_…
• Asepeyo. Prevención de riesgos laborales en la Industria Química. 1ª edición, 2017:
https://prevencion.asepeyo.es/wp-content/uploads/R1E17081-Gu%C3%ADa-Pre…

General skills:
CG1 – to innovate in the space of the work field, demonstrating initiative and entrepreneurship spirit.
CG3 – To valorize the responsibility in the management of information and knowledge in the ambit of Industrial Chemistry and Chemistry Research.
CG4 – To demonstrate the ability to analyze, describe, organize, plan and manage projects
CG5 – To use the scientific terminology in English to rationalize and discuss experimental results in the context of the chemist profession.
CG6 – To correctly apply new technologies for information browse, capture and organization to solve problems in the professional activity.
CG8 - To valorize the human, economic, legal and technical dimensions in the professional activities, as well as environmental implications of their work.
Basic skills:
CB9 – To be able to communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that support them to an specialized or a general public, in a clear and unambiguous way.
CB10 – To have the abilities to keep studying in a way that should be mostly self-directed or autonomous.
Specific skills:
CE5 – To correctly evaluate the risks and environmental and socio-economic impacts of special chemical substances.
CE6 – To design processes that imply the treatment or elimination of hazardous chemical products.
CE9 – To promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the chemical industry and research
Transversal skills:
CT1 – To produce, write, and defend in a public, scientific or technical reports.
CT2 – To work in teams and adapt to multidisciplinary teams.
CT3 - To work with autonomy and efficiency in the daily practice of research or professional activities.
CT4 – To appreciate the value of quality and continuous improvement, acting with rigor, responsibility and professional ethics.
CT5 – To demonstrate an attitude of respect to pinions, values, behavior, and practices of others.

The Learning Management System Moodle of USC (or any other similar) will be used for distribution of the teaching material, and any complementary material considered of interest, looking for an autonomous learning of the students. Lecturing will be carried out in any official language of the USC.

MD1. Theoretical lectures. Expositive lectures will be used to introduce the contents of the discipline, using the blackboard and projection of presentations, complemented with virtual teaching tools. CG5, CT4, CT5.
MD3.Seminars carried out with docents from the Master itself, or professionals invited from industry, Administration or other Universities. Interactive sessions related to the topics of the different chapters with debates, with exchange of opinions. . CG1, CG3, CG4, CG5, CG6, CG8, CB9, CB10, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CE5, CE6, CE9..
MD4. Solution of problems proposed and evaluation of case studies (tests, information interpretation and processing, evaluation of scientific publications, etc CG1, CG3, CG4, CG5, CG6, CG8, CB10, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CE5, CE6, CE9.
MD5. Group or individual tutorials. CG3, CG5, CG8, CT4, CE5, CE6, CE9.
MD6. Realización de trabajos, tanto individualmente, como en grupo, sobre temas científicos relacionados con las distintas materias del Máster. CG1, CG3, CG4, CG5, CG6, CG8, CB9, CB10, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CE5, CE6, CE9.
MD7. Exposición oral de trabajos, informes, etc., incluyendo debate con profesores y alumnos. . CG1, CG3, CG5, CG6, CG8, CB9, CT1, CT2, CT4, CT5, CE5, CE6, CE9.
MD8. Utilization of specialized software and internet. On-line support with Virtual Campus. CG3, CG4, CG5, CG6, CG8, CB10, CT3, CT4.
MD10. Personal study based in the different information sources. CG1, CG3, CG4, CG5, CG6, CB10, CT3, CT4, CE5, CE6, CE9.
MD11. Different evaluations tests to check the acquisition of knowledge (either theoretical or applied), abilities and aptitudes. CG1, CG3, CG4, CG5, CG6, CG8, CB9, CT3, CT4, CT5, CE5, CE6, CE9.

A continuous monitoring of learning will be carried out, by means of the development of different activities, projects and/or resolution of problems, accounting for 20% of the grade. The work carried out in the group tutorial sessions will be evaluated and will account for 20% of the grade. After the lectures, and exam with theoretical and practical questions and problems will be carried out, corresponding to 60% of the grade. 30% of the grade will be necessary IN EACH PART to pass the discipline.
Assistance to the group tutorial sessions is mandatory to pass the discipline. The qualifications of the continuous monitoring activities and group tutorial work will be communicated to the student before the exam. The evaluation system will be the same for the two opportunities of examination. Marks will not be kept for other academic years.

- Evaluation system:
Activity; % grade; (% minimum in the activity, if applicable); Required; Competence evaluation
Continuous evaluation activities; %grade: 20%; CG.1, CG.5, CG.6, CG.8, CB.9, CE.5, CE.6
Group tutorial; % grade: 20% (min. 30%); Mandatory; CG.1, CG.3, CG.5, CG.6, CG.8, CB.9, CB.10, CE.2
Exam: % grade: 60% (min. 30%); CG.8, CE.5, CE.6

The grade needed to pass the discipline is 5,0. If it is detected that any assignments or tests were carried out in a fraudulent manner by the students, the document "Regulations for assessment of the academic performance of the students and for revision of marks" ("Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico ods estudants e de revisión das cualificacións") will be of application.

The discipline has a total load of 3.0 ECTS, splitted as: 12h for expositive lectures, 7h interactive lectures and seminars, and 2h group tutorials. The workload for students is estimated as 54h. Total: 75h.

Assistance to the lectures. Knowledge at user level of computer tools, data and information search: Office package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or any equivalent software (LibreOffice, OpenOffice, etc), e-mail, web browsing, Moodle.

A Learning Management System that is available to all 3 Universities will be used as repository for all documents of the discipline. Lecturing will be carried out in any official language of the USC.