Occupational Hygiene I

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Expositive and interrogative methodologies; theorical and practices exercises.

Learning Outcomes

In order to evaluate the effects of the workplace environmental conditions on the health of workers, students lack skills on some physical risk agents in order to establish etiological relationships to various occupational pathologies. Thus, understanding the results of studies conducted in the context of occupational hygiene is a prerequisite for the exercise of their profession.

The main objetives of this unit programme are the knowledge, understanding and creation of risk prevention strategies at the level of the lighting conditions of the workplace, mechanical noise and worplace vibration.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Workplace illumination: technical characteristics, evaluation, monitoring and adequation to the tasks performed.

Noise - national and international legislation on noise. Assessment methodology. Techniques and protective equipment.

Mechanical vibration. Assessment methodology. Techniques and protective equipment.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Jorge Correia Gouveia Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Textos de apoio e “power point”, A. Neto Simões;

Manual de Iluminação, Edi. Philips;

Traité de medicine du travail, Desoille e outros;

Manual de higiene do trabalho, Ricardo Macedo, Edi. Gulbenkian;

Manual de segurança e higiene do trabalho, Sérgio Miguel, Edi. Porto Editora;

Manual de higiene industrial, Edi. Mapfre;

Diplomas legais relativos aos vários temas;

Normas de iluminação (ISSO 8995 e EN 12464-1).