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CURRICULAR UNIT - MATHEMATICS I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187101

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The general objectives of this initial curricular unit of Math is the review of calculus in R, the analysis, characterisation and graphical representation of real functions of real variable and the introduction to differential calculus. At the end of this unit students should acquire the following mathematical skills necessary for formulating and solving problems posed in the context of the degree:

  • - Correct use of vocabulary and mathematical symbol;
  • - Correct calculation in R, namely the resolution of linear equations and systems of linear equations using matrices;
  • - Knowledge of the concepts of continuity, limits and derivatives;
  • - Application of the study of functions and their graphs to interpretation and problem solving;
  • - Application of differential calculus in the study of real functions of real variable;
  • - Interpretation and critique of the results in the context of the problem;
  • - Communication of concepts, reasoning and ideas with clarity and logical rigor.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

ARRAYS

  • - Definition and properties
  • - Operations with matrices,
  • - Elementary Operations, condensation and characteristic of an array
  • - Application of arrays in classification and solving systems of linear equations: Gauss and Jordan

REAL FUNCTIONS of REAL VARIABLE

  • - General information on real functions of real variable
  • - Notion of boundary (Cauchy definition and definition of Heine); lateral limits; properties and operations
  • - Continuous functions: definition, properties and extension by continuity
  • - Theorems of Bolzano, Weierstrass and the continuity of inverse function

DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS in R

  • - Derivative of a function: definition and geometrical physical interpretation
  • - Lateral derivatives; differentiability; derivation rules; notion of differential
  • - Theorems of Rolle, Lagrange, Cauchy
  • - Cauchy and rule indeterminations
  • - Higher-order Derivatives
  • - Monotony and extremes of functions. Scoops and inflection points. Asymptotes
  • - Representation of the graph of a function

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - CHEMISTRY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187102

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The course of Chemistry has 4 objectives:

  • 1- to provide relevant information from chemical point of view on aspects related to the area of ​​specialization.
  • 2- to provide comprehensive knowledge about some fundamental concepts in chemistry.
  • 3- to encourage the use of new technologies for learning.
  • 4- to allow direct contact with reagents, laboratory techniques and instrumentation.
  • The student should develop the following skills:
  • 1- understand the constitution of matter and the relationship between the structure of matter and its properties.
  • 2- dominate the calculations leading to the preparation of solutions and calculations of chemical and acid-base equilibrium.
  • 3- dominate the specific concepts addressed in the course.
  • 4- understand and use the relationship between research / experience / observation and knowledge.
  • 5- report and explain experimental results reporting to modern techniques and theoretical aspects discussed.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Matter at the microscopic level

  • 1.1. atomic theory of matter
  • 1.2. atomic structure of atoms

2. molecules, ions and solutions

  • 2.1. concept of molecule, ion and ionic compound
  • 2.2. concept of mole and molar mass
  • 2.3. solutions and concentration units
  • 2.4. preparation of solutions and mixtures

3. chemical equilibrium

  • 3.1. writing and balancing chemical reactions
  • 3.2. incomplete reactions. Notion of limiting reagent and reaction yield
  • 3.3. definition and calculation of the equilibrium constant, problems involving the equilibrium constant

4. acid-base equilibrium

  • 4.1. concept of acid and base
  • 4.2. concept of pH and pOH and determination the pH of the solutions
  • 4.3. acid-base titrations. Indicators. Solving problems involving titration curves

5. oxidation-reduction equilibrium

  • 5.1. oxidation reduction concept
  • 5.2. oxidizing and reducing substances
  • 5.3. electrolysis

6. organic chemistry

  • 6.1 carbon and the covalent bond
  • 6.2. structure of organic molecules
  • 6.3. functional groups
  • 6.4. electronic effects
  • 6.5. types of organic reactions
  • 6.6. mechanism of reaction: homolytic and heterolytic reactions
  • 6.7. nomenclature, structure, physical properties and reactivity of alkanes and cycloalkanes, alkenes and alkines, alcohols and phenols, ethers, amines and aldehydes and ketones

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - COMPUTING I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187103

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The curricular unit of Computing 1 aims at the main skills needed to the manipulation of information and communication technologies in a professional context, explaining the principal knowledge and techniques necessary for an efficient and effective use of these technologies.

At the end of the curricular unit the student should be able to produce the digital documents needed in various units across the course and in their professional lives. To this end, emphasis is given to independent and assertive use of information technologies to produce contents in digital form in particular:

  • - advanced use of document editor - MS-WORD
  • - advanced use of a spreadsheet - MS-EXCEL
  • - the use of a Database Management System - MS-ACCESS

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to information technology

  • 1.1. Hardware concepts
  • 1.2. storage formats

2. Software for the production of documents - MS-WORD

  • 2.1. pages setup
  • 2.2. sections
  • 2.3. styles
  • 2.4. images, graphics and other objects
  • 2.5. tables
  • 2.6. symbols, equations
  • 2.7. references
  • 2.8. automatic indexes
  • 2.9. mail merge

3. Spreadsheet application - MS-EXCEL

  • 3.1. calculation with Excel. Functions
  • 3.2. mathematical and statistical use
  • 3.3. charts in EXCEL
  • 3.4. validation and data protection
  • 3.5. integration with WORD

4. Database management software - ACCESS

  • 4.1. Relational database model
  • 4.2. tables and relations
  • 4.3. queries
  • 4.4. forms
  • 4.5. reports

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - TECHNICAL ENGLISH

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187104

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Objectives and competencies

Technical English has 3 objectives:

  • - to guarantee the indispensable basic knowledge in the areas of vocabulary and structure of the English language.
  • - to supply specific vocabulary related to the area of studies.
  • - to provide knowledge on the grammar structures and sentences relevant for the future professional area.

The student should develop the following skills:

  • - participating by listening and speaking, in dialogues typical of his/her future professional area.
  • - understanding technical texts of his/her area of studies.
  • - writing texts on typical situations of his/her professional area.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Vocabulary

Vocabulary relevant for the specific area of Occupational Health and Safety, acquired in the study of real texts and talks on various pertinent topics, namely:

  • - Safety and security, danger and risk
  • - Accident prevention at work
  • - Health and safety risk management
  • - Particularly dangerous jobs

2. Language Structure/Functions

Relevant grammar structures and linguistic patterns determined by the tasks of reading, listening, speaking, writing and reflecting on professional area topics, which will necessarily include:

  • - Interrogative sentences
  • - Present, past and future tenses
  • - Conditional tenses
  • - Reported speech
  • - Passive voice

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LAW  

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187107

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The main objectives of the course are:

  • (i) to convey students that are starting the course an overall picture of Law – upon the determination its position and functions in the social system, its relations with the State and its evaluative content - as well as the knowledge of a set of common to the different branches of law general notions, and prior;
  • (ii) Initiate students in the legal reasoning and study the modes of knowledge and legal thinking, the methodology of the science of law. At the conclusion of the semester, the student should be able to understand the organization of the legal system, enumerate and differentiate the various sources of law and reveal a domain of introductory basics to resolve factual situations by legal rules.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

I - Idea of ​​Law

  • 1. Approaches
  • 2. Law and Justice
  • 3. Law, Society and State
  • 4. Law, Ethics and Morals
  • 5. Law, Imperativeness and Coercibility
  • 6. Law as a cultural reality

II - Legal System

  • 1. Sources of Law
  • 2. Plurality of sources and the regulatory system unit
  • 3. Publication, rectification, entry into force and termination of sources of law

III – The determination of the applicable standard and its application to the case

  • 1. The interpretation
  • 2. The integration of gaps

IV - The determination of the spatial and temporal scope of the standard

  • 1. Law enforcement in time
  • 2. Law enforcement in space

V – Legal People and Situations

  • 1. People
  • 2. The Legal situations and legal relationships
  • 3. Legal facts as sources of legal situation

VI - The Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and the Sovereignty Organs

  • 1. Fundamental Principles
  • 2. Fundamental Rights and Duties
  • 3. Legal Organization
  • 4. Political Organization
  • 5. Economic Organization

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH  

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187105

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • 1. Introduce the study of health and safety at work through the definition and terminology of fundamental concepts;  
  • 2. Define the process of risk management, characterizing its various phases;  
  • 3. Methodologically approach each step of the risk management process and exemplify this approach;  
  • 4. Make known the contribution of professional risk control;  
  • 5. Describe, in a synthetic and descriptive way, the legal framework applicable to OSH.

It is intended that at the end of the working time with the students, that they have acquired the minimum skills to be able to understand and use in an effective way the technical and specific vocabulary of the universe of SST, as well as the ability to see and translate the spaces involving them with the technical methodologies learned in the discipline.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • - Historical development of hygiene, safety and health at work;    
  • - Legal framework;    
  • - Fundamental concepts of HSST;    
  • - Organization of HSST services;    
  • - Risk management process;    
  • - Risk assessment;    
  • - Risk assessment methodologies;    
  • - Methods of risk control (preventive and protective);    
  • - Safety signs.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY APPLIED TO OSH

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187106

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

It is intended that the development of this discipline be a dynamic process of acquisition and construction of skills with the goal that in the end the student can achieve basic knowledge of Human Anatomy and Physiology essential to understanding the phenomena of Health / Disease and how these can be influenced by several professional activities.

So, the students in the end of the curricular unit should:

  • - Identify the different structures and constituent elements of the various systems of the human body;
  • - Know the operation of the various systems of the human body
  • - Understand, develop and integrate the knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology with the phenomena resulting from the work.

It is intended that at the end of the working time with the students, that they have acquired the minimum skills to be able to understand and use in an effective way the technical and specific vocabulary of the universe of SST, as well as the ability to see and translate the spaces involving them with the technical methodologies learned in the discipline.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Human Body Organization

  • 1.1. Anatomy and Physiology Definition
  • 1.2. Structure and Functioning of the Cell
  • 1.3. Tissue, Organ, System and Apparatus definition
  • 1.4. Major Body Systems

2. Support and Movement

  • 2.1. Cutaneous System
  • 2.1.1. Vision assembly cutaneous system
  • 2.1.2. Constitution and functions of the skin
  • 2.2. Skeletal System
  • 2.2.1. Functions of the Skeletal System
  • 2.2.2. Anatomy and histology of the bone
  • 2.2.3. Joints and Movement
  • 2.2.4. Structure and Functions of the Muscular System
  • 2.2.5. Effects of Aging on the Skeletal System

3. Systems of Integration and control

  • 3.1. Nervous system
  • 3.1.1. Nervous System Functions
  • 3.1.2. Special Senses: Smell, Taste, Visual System, Hearing and Balance
  • 3.1.3. Autonomic Nervous System

4. Control and maintenance system

  • 4.1. Respiratory system
  • 4.1.1. Introduction to the study of the respiratory system; anatomical and functional organization
  • 4.1.2. Functions and this relationships with the other systems

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MATHEMATICS II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187108

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

This second curricular unit of mathematics is the natural continuity of the UC Mathematics I, starting with the primitive and integral concepts in R. It follows an introduction to differential equations, in order to initiate the student in Mathematical modelling, forcing both the use and application of the concepts of differential and integral calculus. Finally, some numerical methods of solving problems are introduced, like numerical integration. At the end of this unit students should acquire the following skills:

  • - Correct use of Maths specific vocabulary and symbology
  • - Determine immediate and almost immediate primitives and apply the techniques of primitives by parts and associated with rational fractions
  • - Domain integral calculus in R
  • - Solve linear differential equations
  • - Construct linear, exponential and logistic mathematical models
  • - Apply numerical methods in solving problems
  • - Interpretation and critique of the results in the context of the problem
  • - Application of differential calculus in the study of real functions of real variable;
  • - Interpretation and critique of the results in the context of the problem;
  • - Communication of concepts, reasoning and ideas with clarity and logical rigor.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

INTEGRAL CALCULUS in R

  • Notion of Primitive or Indefinite Integral. Immediate and almost immediate primitives.
  • Primitive of rational functions are unfit. Initial value problems.
  • Definite integral: definition, geometrical interpretation, Barrow formula.
  • By parts method of primitive and integration.
  • Applications of Integral Calculus: Calculation of mean value, flat areas, volumes of solids of revolution.

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (DE)

  • Ordinary differential equations (ODE): classification, resolution of ODE of separable variables.
  • Modeling problems.
  • Resolution of ODE by method of integral factor.
  • Second degree ODE.

NUMERICAL METHODS

  • Solving nonlinear equations.
  • Polynomial interpolation.
  • Numerical integration.
  • Numerical solving of ODE.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - PHYSICS I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187108

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The curricular unit of Physics I aims to provide the students with tools for the scientific approach to a problem and simultaneously provide knowledge of the basic laws of Newtonian mechanics. The unit is projected to have continuity in the Physics II curricular unit, to be taught the following semester, which will continue the study of Newtonian mechanics for linear motion.

At the end of the contact time the students would have acquired sufficient knowledge and practice in order to examine and evaluate, according with the principles and laws of physics, situations that may occur in their daily lives.

When they have completed the curricular unit, students should be able to understand the concepts and physical principles learnt, meaning by understanding not only being able to articulate the concepts but also to be able to apply them to a variety of practical problems.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Physics

2. Physics quantities

  • 2.1. Fundamental and derived quantities
  • 2.2. The international system
  • 2.3. Significant figures

3. Kinematics of Material point

  • 3.1. Kinematics in one dimension:
  • 3.1.1. Concepts
  • 3.1.2. Graphical analysis
  • 3.1.3. Uniformly accelerated motion
  • 3.1.4. Motion with Variable acceleration
  • 3.2. Kinematics of 2 and 3 dimensions:
  • 3.2.1. Concepts
  • 3.2.2. Relative speed
  • 3.2.3. Curvilinear motion
  • 3.2.4. Motion Projectiles
  • 3.2.5. Circular motion

4. Newton's laws

  • 4.1. Newton's laws
  • 4.2. Forces on Nature
  • 4.2.1. Fundamental forces
  • 4.2.2. Elastic forces
  • 4.2.3. Tensions
  • 4.2.4. Normal force
  • 4.3. Force diagrams
  • 4.4. Friction forces
  • 4.5. Centripetal forces
  • 4.6. Drag forces

5. Energy conservation

  • 5.1. Wprk
  • 5.2. Work-kinetic energy theorem
  • 5.3. Potential energy
  • 5.4. Conservation of mechanical energy
  • 5.5. Energy conservation

6. Conservation of quantity of linear motion

  • 6.1. center of mass
  • 6.2. Conservation of linear momentum
  • 6.3. Kinetic energy of a system
  • 6.4. Collisions

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - CHEMISTRY II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187109

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Chemistry II has four goals:

  • 1) Provide relevant information from a chemical standpoint on practical aspects related with the area of expertise; 2) Provide a wide-range view on fundamental chemical concepts;
  • 3) Enhance the use of new technological learning tools;
  • 4) Allow direct contact with reagents, techniques, and laboratory instruments.
  • The student should develop the following skills:
  • 1) Deepen the understanding of matter constitution and the relationship between structure and properties;
  • 2) Understand reaction aspects of chemical transformations;
  • 3) Master gas laws and their use in the calculation of properties;
  • 4) Recognize and make use of the relationships between research/experiment/observation and knowledge;
  • 5) Communicate and explain experimental results using modern techniques and the theoretical concepts thought.  

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Chemical Elements

  • Orbital and electronic atom configuration
  • Development, organization and systematization of the periodic table
  • Periodic variation of element properties

2. Chemical Bonding

  • Lewis notation. Chemical bond and octet rule
  • Molecular geometry
  • Polarity and electronegativity

3. Intermolecular Forces and Physical Properties of Matter

  • Intermolecular forces
  • Prediction of physical properties as a function of intermolecular forces. Miscibility

4. Gas State

  • Pressure, ideal and real gases

5. Chemical Thermodynamics

  • Enthalpy and entropy
  • Thermochemistry. Heat of reaction, combustion, and explosions

6. Chemical Kinetics

  • Chemical kinetics, reaction rate, rate law
  • Reaction mechanisms. Catalysis

7. Polymers

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION AND NEGOTIATION TECHNIQUES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187111

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Form technicians and specialists with the ability to communicate during stressful situations, emergency and conflict with the media and the general public.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Interpersonal communication

  • 1.1 Risk communication
  • 1,2 Techniques for Body and Verbal Expression
  • 1.3 Written expression techniques-communication

2. Plans Releases

  • 2.1 Need to Plan
  • 2.2 Development of a Communication Plan
  • 2.3 Implementation Plan

3. In times of Disaster

  • 3.1 Psychology of Disaster
  • 3.2 Stress Management
  • 3.3 Psychology of language

4. Press relations and media relations

  • 4.1 Media Relations
  • 4.2 Press Secretary and spokesman
  • 4.3 Internal communication
  • 4.4 Information sources

5. Contemporary journalism

5.1 Ethics and Deontology of journalism

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND FIRST AID

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187112

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

For a better understanding, it was decided to divide the curricular unit in 2 thematics: In Occupational Health and in First Aid. Thus in Occupational Health it is intended that its development be a dynamic process of acquisition and construction of skills with the objective that in the end the student can reach the basic knowledge of Occupational Health essential to the understanding of the Health / Disease phenomena and how these can be influenced by the various professional activities.

Students at the end of the Occupational Health theme should:

  • - Know the definition of health and it’s evolution;
  • - Know the main definitions and documents of reference in Occupational Health;
  • - Know the values of Promotion of Health at Work;
  • - Identify programs of health surveillance of workers according to professional risks;
  • - Characterize the influence exercised by risk factors of professional nature in workers’ health;
  • - Know the principles of prevention of accidents at work and occupational diseases.      

Students at the end of the First Aid theme should:

  • - Understand how the integrated medical emergency system is organized and coordinated;
  • - To know the data to be communicated by phone to the Center of Orientation and Distribution of Urgent Situations;
  • - Respond effectively to an emerging situation of cardio-respiratory arrest;
  • - Respond effectively to a sudden illness (hemorrhage, intoxication) allowing the victim's stability until the appropriate means arrive.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Ocupational Health:

  • - Health/Disease: Evolution of concepts and practices, health positive value e pluridisciplinar, indicators of population health.
  • - Public Health: Main phases of development, major health problems of today and its relevance to the definition of policy’s.
  • - Natural history of the disease in man and occupational health: Conceptual model of Leavell and Clark. Levels of implementation of preventive measures (primary prevention, secondary and tertiary).
  • - Health Promotion and disease prevention: key features the Portuguese health system.
  • - Occupational health: Main phases of development of Occupational Health, Occupation Health teams.
  • - Work/Health relations: The concepts of occupational risk factor and risk, work related aggravated diseases by work.
  • - Professional diseases and work accidents in Portugal.
  • - Health surveillance depending on the risk factors of a professional nature.
  • - Study methods and intervention in public and occupational health.
  • - Code of ethics of occupational health professionals.

First aid:

1. Integrated Medical Emergency System

  • - General Principles of First Aid
  1. General Examination of the Victim
  • - Primary examination
  • - Secondary examination

3. Basic Life Support

  • - Airway Approach
  • - Adult resuscitation
  • - Safety Side Position

4. Asphyxia and obstruction of the airway

  • - Anatomy of the airways
  • - Concept
  • - Common Causes

5. Shock State

  • - Concept
  • - Causes
  • - Symptomatology
  • - Performance

6. Bleeding

  • - Concept
  • - Ranking
  • - Symptomatology
  • - Performance

7. Wounds and Burns

  • - Concept
  • - Types of wounds
  • - Degree of burns
  • - Performance

8. Intoxications

  • - Concept
  • - Antivenenos Information Center


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CURRICULAR UNIT - LEGISLATION AND REGULATION IN OSH

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187113

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The UC Legislation, Rules and Regulations and Standards of Occupational Health and Safety (LRNSST) has, as essential objectives:

  • a) To characterize the normative action of the International Labour Organisation and the European Union in the field of occupational health and safety (OSH).
  • b) To describe the main stages of development of the OSH law and its structural characteristics.
  • c) To characterize the legal framework for occupational safety and health.
  • d) To characterize the legal status of compensation on work accidents and occupational diseases.
  • e) To identify and distinguish the legal responsibilities of the main actors of prevention of occupational risks.

It is intended that, at the end of contact time, students have acquired knowledge and skills to characterize and manipulate the OSH legislation.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. International and European Union framework of occupational safety and health.

  • 1.1 The International Labour Organization (ILO): main organs, tripartite functioning and functions.
  • 1.2 International labour standards: conventions, recommendations and other standards.
  • 1.3 European Union: main organ, composition and functions.
  • 1.4 European agencies with mission in the field of OSH: EUROFOUND and EUOSHA
  • 1.5 European legislation: types of standards and relationship with national law.

2. Institutional framework.

  • 2.1 The constitutional right to OSH.
  • 2.2 System and network prevention of occupational risk.

3. Evolution of the OSH law: aims and characteristics of the standards.

4. OSH law structure after the Single European Act.

  • 4.1 Directives essential requirements of intrinsic safety (free movement of goods) and minimum requirements for OSH (social policy).
  • 4.2 Directives new approach and global approach.
  • 4.3 The role of standardization.

5. The legal framework for promoting OSH and the obligation of prevention.

  • 5.1 Scope and object.
  • 5.2 Structural characteristics of the obligation of prevention.
  • 5.3 The general principles of prevention.
  • 5.4 The risk assessment.
  • 5.5 The organization of resources and OSH services.
  • 5.6 Training, information, consultation and participation of workers.
  • 5.7 The coordination of external interventions: work in coactivity.
  • 5.8 The game of actors: subjects actors, roles and responsibilities.
  • 5.9 Worker's rights and duties.

6. The compensation of work accidents and occupational diseases.

  • 6.1 Notion of work accident.
  • 6.2 Notion of occupational diseases.
  • 6.3 Rehabilitation and reintegration.

7. Responsibilities Criminal and Contraordenacional Law related to Prevention

  • 7.1 Willful fault / negligent fault
  • 7.2 Commissives Crimes by action or omission
  • 7.3 The types of crimes in particular
  • 7.4 Relevant aspects of the regime of labour offenses in the field of OS

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187114

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The Technology of Materials UC (TM) is a discipline in the area of Engineering Sciences and, as such, aims to:

  • a) To know the structures of matter, in particular the structures of materials used in engineering.
  • b) Characterize specific properties.
  • c) Know the behavior of the different materials to the requests resulting from their application.

It is intended that at the end of the contact time students have acquired skills to know the characteristics of the various engineering materials. For this, the student must acquire (or have acquired) basic concepts of chemistry, mechanics, thermodynamics and electricity.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction

  • 1.1. Atoms, Ions And Molecules
  • 1.2. Chemical Bonds
  • 1.3. Crystallography Fundamentals
  • 1.4. Phases Of The Matter

2. Metals And Metallic Alloys

  • 2.1. Ferrous
  • 2.2. Non-ferrous

3. Ceramics

  • 3.1. Traditional
  • 3.2. Technical

4. Polymerics

  • 4.1. Elastic
  • 4.2. Plastic

5. Natural Materials

  • 5.1. Mineral Origin
  • 5.2. Vegetable Origin
  • 5.3. Animal Origin

6. Nanomaterials

7. Corrosion

8. Failure Modes

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MATHEMATICS III

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187114

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

This Mathematics curricular unit (CU) aims to obtain the fundamental knowledge of differential and integral multivariable calculus, understood as skills necessary to formulate and solve problems in the scope of engineering.

  • - Correct use of vocabulary and mathematical symbology;
  • - Correct domain of calculation of determinants and their properties;
  • - Domain in the calculation of values ​​and proper vectors of a matrix and its applications;
  • - Correct domain of the calculation in R, namely the differential and integral calculus;
  • - Interpretation and critique of the results in the context of the problem;
  • - Communication of concepts, reasoning and ideas with clarity and logical rigor.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1- Determinants

  • 1.1. Definition, calculation and properties of the determinant
  • 1.2. Principal determinant method. Laplace's theorem.
  • 1.3. Calculation of the inverse matrix from the attached one.
  • 1.4. Rule of Cramer, Rouché Theorem

2. Values ​​and eigenvectors of an endomorphism

  • 2.1. Definition
  • 2.2. Characteristic polynomial
  • 2.3. Calculation of the values ​​and eigenvectors of a matrix
  • 2.4. Diagonalization

3. Differential calculation in R

  • 3.1. Introduction to R
  • 3.2. Scalar, partial derivatives, directional and gradient fields
  • 3.3. Hessian matrix and stationarity points

4. Integrals in R

  • 4.1. Representation, parameterization and domain of scalar fields
  • 4.2. Double integrals of scalar fields. Fubini's theorem
  • 4.3. Change of limits of integration and of variable in double integrals
  • 4.4 Triple integrals of scalar fields

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - PHYSICS II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187117

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The discipline of Physics II aims to provide students with tools for the scientific approach to a problem and at the same time to teach the concepts of applied Solids and Fluids Mechanics as well as Thermodynamics. The unit is designed to be a continuation of Physics l taught in the previous semester, which was an introduction to the study of physics with the foundations of mechanics.

At the end of the contact time the students should have sufficient knowledge and practice in order to examine and evaluate situations that occur in their daily lives, according to the principles and laws of physics.

When they have completed the curricular unit, students should be able to understand the concepts and physical principles taught, meaning by understanding not only being able to articulate them but also to be able to apply them to a variety of practical problems.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. ROTATION

  • 1.1 Angular Kinematics
  • 1.2. Moment of inertia
  • 1.3. Newton's second law
  • 1.4 Angular momentum
  • 1.5 Torque

2. STATIC EQUILIBRIUM

  • 2.1 Equilibrium
  • 2.2 Elasticity
  • 2.3 Flexibility
  • 2.4 Torsion
  • 2.5 Compressibility

3. FLUID'S STATIC

  • 3.1 Pressure
  • 3.2 Pascal's principle
  • 3.3 Boyle-Mariotte's Law
  • 3.4 Archimedean Principle
  • 3.5 Compressibility

4 FLUID’S DYNAMIC

  • 4.1 Steady flow
  • 4.2 Bernoulli's Theorem
  • 4.3 Torricelli's Theorem
  • 4.4 Viscosity
  • 4.5 Flow Regimes

5. INTERMOLECULAR FORCES

  • 5.1 Intermolecular forces
  • 5.2 Surface tension
  • 5.3 Capillarity

6. KINETIC THEORY OF GASES

  • 6.1 Thermal equilibrium
  • 6.2 Absolute scale
  • 6.3 Kinetic theory

7. FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

  • 7.1 Thermal Capacity
  • 7.2 Change of Phase
  • 7.3 Work and the PV diagram

8. SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

  • 8.1 Thermal Machines
  • 8.2 Coolers
  • 8.3 Thermal Pumps

9. THERMAL PROCESSES

  • 9.1 thermal expansion
  • 9.2 Phase diagrams
  • 9.3 Heat transfer


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CURRICULAR UNIT - PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187116

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

With this curricular unit (CU) students should get fluent in descriptive, analytical and inferential statistical analysis, using hypothesis testing (parametric and non-parametric) in decision support and developing critical sense in the analysis of the results obtained. This CU also aims at illustrating the most important concepts about Probability, Combinatory and Reliability.

At the end of this CU students should have the following skills:

  • - determine the probability of an event
  • - identify and select a sample of a given population
  • - develop the capacity of processing and data analysis
  • - critically apply statistical methods in different contexts
  • - formulate and test hypotheses, choosing the most appropriate hypothesis testing to decision-making
  • - use a statistical computer tool
  • - critically analysis indicators and statistical parameters
  • - compare different approaches

PROGRAM CONTENTS

STATISTICICS

  • Population and sample
  • Sampling techniques
  • Measurement scales
  • Data treatment; outliers

DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

  • Measures of central tendency, dispersion and position
  • Frequency distribution; histograms, charts, and contingency tables

PROBABILITY

  • Introduction and fundamental concepts
  • Counting techniques
  • Definition of probability
  • Conditional probability and Independence
  • Law of total probabilities and Bayes’ Theorem
  • Important discrete and continuous distributions

INFERENTIAL STATISTICAL

  • Estimation and confidence intervals
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Parametric and non-parametric tests
  • Comparison of averages: Student's t-test
  • Chi-square test
  • Correlation
  • Linear regression

COMPUTER DATA PROCESSING

  • Introduction to Excel

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - ERGONOMICS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187119

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Ergonomics is aimed to deliver to the students, fundamental about Ergonomics and Human Factors will support their future expertise on Occupational Safety. The following areas will be covered:

  • 1. Be aware of their regarding the use of tools and methods for Ergonomics intervention
  • 2. Identify working situations that needs ergonomic intervention and that should be addressed to Ergonomics experts
  • 3. Know how to prepare requests for ergonomic intervention
  • 4. To assess the ergonomic intervention proposals by matching their compliance to the Ergonomic intervention request.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. Ergonomics - Fundamentals
  • 2. Ergonomics & human performance
  • 3. Human-Machine Interaction
  • 4. The method in Ergonomics
  • 5. Industrial Ergonomics
  • 6. Workplace and job design

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - TECHNICAL DRAWING

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187118

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The main purpose of Technical Drawing Curriculum unit is to improve knowledge of the adequate representative method, considering the specificities of the theme we are dealing with.

For that purpose the student should acquire fundamental general knowledge regarding the production of Technical Drawing using the computer program Autocad and when the unit is concluded he/she should be able to:

  • - Distinguish and understand the designations, legends and symbols used in the Technical Drawings
  • - Articulate the different projection systems and auxiliary views
  • - Understand and draw with the different projections methods
  • - Using dimensioning
  • - Understanding the specific methods of representations of technical drawings in architecture, civil engineering and industrial systems.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1. General principles of representation
  • 2. Technical drawing Introduction
  • 3. Autocad program fundamentals
  • 4. Orthogonal projection systems
  • 5. Sections and auxiliary vews
  • 6. Perspectives
  • 7. Dimensioning

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - OCCUPATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187120

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The CU Occupational Risk Assessment (ORP) has, as essential objectives:

  • a) Integrate the Risk Assessment phase in the Risk Management process, by defining and terminology and basic concepts
  • b) Set the main methodologies for Risk Assessment
  • c) Classify and develop various methods, techniques and tools applicable
  • d) Provide students with theoretical and technical skills to develop a Professional Risk Assessment

It is intended that at the end of contact time, students have acquired knowledge and skills to perform and interpret a risk assessment.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

Part1 - General Framework

1. Introduction

2. Fundamental Concepts

  • 2.1. Revision of previous Knowledge
  • 2.2. Probability and Reliability

Part 2 - Methodologies

3. Risk Assessment

  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Concept of Vulnerability

4. Risk Assessment Methodologies

4.1. Definitions

  • 4.2. Qualitative assessment methodologies
  • 4.3. Quantitative assessment methodologies
  • 4.4. Semi-quantitative assessment methodologies
  • 4.5. Other evaluation methodologies

Part 3 - Methods

5. Methods of Risk Assessment

  • 5.1. Classification of Methods of evaluation
  • 5.2. Model of the productive process
  • 5.3. Descriptive methods
  • 5.4. Statistical methods
  • 5.5. “What-If” Methods
  • 5.6. Algorithmic Methods
  • 5.7. Methods of analysis of barriers
  • 5.8. Matrix methods
  • 5.9. Mixed methods
  • 5.10. Logic trees

6. Complementarity of the approach

  • 6.1. Horizontal Integration
  • 6.2. Vertical Integration

7. Quality of Risk Assessment

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - INSTRUMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187122

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

At the end of the semester students should be able to:

  • − Identify and apply legal or regulatory requirements;
  • − Identify monitoring and measurement (EMM) equipment in OSH;
  • − Use EMM in SST to measure parameters (noise, thermal environment, illuminance, chemical contaminants;
  • − Elaborate the protocols for reports of measurement of the variables in the Industrial Hygiene aspect;
  • − Elaborate the reports of measurement of the variables in the area of Industrial Hygiene;
  • − Identify and apply the types of Maintenance;
  • − Identify and apply appropriate methods of work and prevention measures;
  • − Case study

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction

  • 1.1 Concepts and Definitions
  • 1.2 Requirement 7.6 of ISO 9001: 2008: Control of Monitoring and Measurement Equipment
  • i. Selection of measuring equipment
  • ii. Equipment Control Plan
  • iii. Acceptance criteria for equipment
  • iv. Approval of External Calibration Certificates
  • v. Interpret the meaning of uncertainty and its implications
  • vi. Approval of equipment for use.
  • vii. Measurement errors
  • 1.3 Metrological Control

2. Monitoring and Measurement in SST

  • 2.1 Noise
  • i. Equipment and its operation
  • ii. Protocol elaboration
  • iii. Methodology for calculation and preparation of worksheets
  • iv. Practical work
  • 2.2 Thermal Environment
  • i. Equipment and its operation
  • ii. Protocol elaboration
  • iii. Methodology for calculation and preparation of worksheets
  • iv. Practical work
  • 2.3 Lighting
  • i. Equipment and its operation
  • ii. Protocol elaboration
  • iii. Methodology for calculation and preparation of worksheets
  • iv. Practical work
  • 2.4 Chemical Contaminants
  • i. Equipment and its operation
  • ii. Protocol elaboration
  • iii. Methodology for calculation and preparation of worksheets
  • iv. Practical work

3. MAINTENANCE

  • 3.1 Maintenance strategies
  • i. Types of Maintenance
  • ii. Conditioned Maintenance
  • iii. Maintenance management
  • iv. Maintenance Planning
  • v. Quality in Maintenance
  • vi. Maintenance Indices
  • vii. TPM
  • viii. Methods of Work and Adequate prevention and protection measures
  • 3.2. Case Study

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL HAZARDS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187122

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The curricular unit of Technology and Mechanical and Electrical Risks, aims to provide students with tools for the scientific, technical and regulatory approach to Technology and Mechanical and Electrical Risks in the work environment. Its specific objectives are:

  • - Electrical technology
  • - Machine Body Technology
  • - Analysis of electrical risks
  • - Mechanical hazards analysis
  • - Analysis of additional risks and their prevention

It is intended that at the end of the contact time students should be able to perform electrical and mechanical hazards prevention in a variety of buildings and enclosures occupied by workers and the general public.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

PART I: Electricity

1. Fundamentals of electricity and electrical analysis

  • 1.1. Electric Load and Electrical Current
  • 1.2. Electrical Standards and Conventions
  • 1.3. Graphical Symbols and Schematic Diagrams
  • 1.4. Ohm's Law and Power
  • 1.5. Magnetism and Magnetic Fields
  • 1.6. Electromagnetic Induction

2. Continuous current

  • 2.1. Series and Parallel Circuits
  • 2.2. Electrical Conductors
  • 2.3. Total Power in Series Circuit
  • 2.4. Tension Splitter
  • 2.5. Current Splitter
  • 2.6. Total Power in the Parallel Circuit

3. Alternating Current

  • 3.1. Generating an Alternating Voltage
  • 3.2. Sinusoidal Waves
  • 3.3. Fasores
  • 3.4. Current and AC Voltages

4. Choice of components

  • 4.1. Distribution Structure
  • 4.2. Overcurrent Protection Devices
  • 4.3. Selection of Personal Protection Devices
  • 4.4. Use of Differential Devices

PART II: Machinery Organs

1 - Objectives of Machinery Organs

2 - Bearings

  • 2.1 - General
  • 2.2 - Self-compensators
  • 2.3 - Angular Contact
  • 2.4 - Top
  • 2.5 - Rollers or Cylinders
  • 2.6 - Conical
  • 2.7 - Self-compensating rollers
  • 2.8 - Top self-compensators
  • 2.9 - Needles
  • 2.10 - Comparison between bearings and bearings

3 - Connections of Cubes to Shafts

  • 3.1 - General
  • 3.2 - Stronger unions
  • 3.2.1 - Welded joints
  • 3.2.2 - Forced unions
  • 3.3 - Union by split hub
  • 3.4 - Prismatic unions (fluted veins)
  • 3.5 - Connections by longitudinal keys
  • 3.5.1 - Free braces
  • 3.5.2 - Forced keys
  • 3.5.3 - Chavetas á face
  • 3.5.4 - Saddle Chairs
  • 3.5.5 - Round Studs or Studs
  • 3.5.6 - Swaged keys
  • 3.5.7 - Half Moon Studs
  • 3.5.8 - Tangential keys

4 - Shaft couplings

  • 4.1 - General
  • 4.2 - Permanent Unions
  • 4.2.1 - Rigid
  • 4.2.1.1 - Joint without joint
  • 4.2.1.2 - Pressure unions or Seller's
  • 4.2.1.3 - Union of flanges or union of plates
  • 4.2.2 - Furniture
  • 4.2.2.1 - Axial
  • 4.2.2.2 - Angles
  • 4.2.2.3 - Parallelism
  • 4.2.3 - Elastic
  • 4.2.3.1 - Axial elastic unions
  • 4.2.3.2 - Paulstra Union
  • 4.2.3.3 - Union of teeth
  • 4.2.3.4 - Falk Union
  • 4.2.4 - Security
  • 4.2.4.1 - Friction joint
  • 4.2.4.2 - Mechanical fuse
  • 4.3 - Temporary Unions
  • 4.4 - Sizing of Shaft Connections

5 - Sizing of organs used for power transmission

  • 5.1 - Belt Drums
  • 5.2 - Gears
  • 5.3 - Kinematic screw / nut;
  • 5.4 - Kinematic torque worm / sprocket;
  • 5.5 - Kinematic gear wheel / rack.

PART III: Electrical hazards

1. Introduction

2 - The electric current and the human body

  • 2.1 - Electrophysiology
  • 2.2 - Pathophysiological Effects of the Electrical Current on the Human Body
  • 2.2.1 - Perception threshold
  • 2.2.2 - Non-drop threshold: Tetanization
  • 2.2.3 - Respiratory arrest
  • 2.2.4 - Ventricular fibrillation
  • 2.2.4.1 - Heart current factor
  • 2.2.4.2 - Vulnerable period
  • 2.2.4.3 - Fibrillation limit
  • 2.2.5 - Burns
  • 2.2.5.1 - Electrothermal burns
  • 2.2.5.2 - Burns by bow
  • 2.2.5.3 - Mixed burns
  • 2.2.5.4 - Electrical mark

3- Risk of contact with the electric current

  • 3.1 - Definition
  • 3.2 - Terminology of electrical accidents
  • 3.3 The five modes of electrification
  • 3.4 - The electric risk equation
  • 3.5 - The different parameters of the electrical risk
  • 3.5.1 - Intensity
  • 3.5.2 - High frequency currents
  • 3.5.3 - Impulse current
  • 3.5.4 - Electrical Impedance in the Human Body
  • 3.5.5 - Contact voltage
  • 3.5.6 - Safety voltage

4 - Distribution of electricity

  • 4.1 - TT system
  • 4.2 - TN System
  • 4.3 - IT system

5 - Consequences of direct and indirect contacts in neutral systems

  • 5.1 - Consequences of direct contacts
  • 5.2 - Consequences of indirect contacts

6 - Practical measures of protection

  • 6.1 - Protection against direct contact
  • 6.2 - Protection systems against indirect contacts
  • 6.3 - Protection measures with automatic power cut-off
  • 6.4 - Differential devices
  • 6.4.1 - Characterization
  • 6.4.2 - Principle of operation
  • 6.4.3 - Complementary protection against direct contacts
  • 6.5 - Earth and ground resistance
  • 6.5.1 - General information
  • 6.5.2 - Shape and dimensions of the electrodes
  • 6.5.3 - Measurement of earth resistances
  • 6.5.4 - Step and contact voltage

7 - Fires of electrical origin

8 - Static electricity and lightning

  • 8.1 - Origin of static electricity
  • 8.2 - Risks
  • 8.3 - Preventive measures
  • 8.4 - The radius

9 - Electrical and magnetic field

10 - Special risks

11 - First aid

  • 11.1 - Respiratory and circulatory arrest
  • 11.2 – Burns

PARTE IV: Riscos mecânicos

1 - Introdução

2 - As máquinas e os acidentes de trabalho

3 - Riscos e prevenção de acidentes em máquinas

4 - Riscos decorrentes de movimentos e acções mecânicas das máquinas

  • 4.1 - Movimento circular
  • 4.2 - Movimento alternado
  • 4.3 - Movimento rectilineo
  • 4.4 - Acção de choque
  • 4.5 - Acção de corte
  • 4.6 - Acção de dobragem ou flexão

5 - Requisitos mínimos para protecção de máquina

  • 5.1 - Prevenção de contacto
  • 5.2 - Protecção da queda de objectos
  • 5.3 - Prevenção de perigos adicionais
  • 5.4 - Impedimento na criação de interferência
  • 5.5 - Participação efectiva na segurança interna da empresa

6 - Métodos de protecção de manutenção preventiva e preditiva

  • 6.1 - Barreiras ou anteparos de protecção
  • 6.1.1 - Barreiras ou proteções fixas
  • 6.1.2 - Barreiras ou Proteções interligadas ou de intertravamento
  • 6.1.3 - Proteção ajustável
  • 6.1.4 - Barreiras ou protecções auto – ajustáveis
  • 6.1.4 - Proteção com dispositivos
  • 6.1.4.1 - Dispositivos sensores de posição
  • 6.1.4.2 - Dispositivos de controlo de segurança
  • 6.1.4.3 - Protecção pela localização ou pela distância
  • 6.1.4.4 - Métodos de alimentação e extração de segurança

7 - Outros mecanismos auxiliares de protecção

  • 7.1 - Barreiras de advertência
  • 7.2 - Escudos
  • 7.3 - Ferramentas manuais
  • 7.4 - Alavancas de empurrão ou bloqueio
  • 7.5 - Manutenção Preventiva E Preditiva

8 - Bases legais e normas nacionais sobre segurança de máquinas

  • 8.1 - Decreto-Lei Nº 320/2001, de 12 de Dezembro
  • 8.2 - Decreto-Lei Nº 82/99, de 16 de Março, alterado pelo Descreto-Lei Nº 113/99, de 3 de Agosto

9 - Riscos em máquinas

  • 9.1 - Empilhadores
  • 9.1.1 - Motor a Gasóleo
  • 9.1.2 - Motor a Gasolina
  • 9.1.3 - Motor a Gás
  • 9.1.4 - Eléctricos
  • 9.2 - Telas Transportadoras
  • 9.3 - Porta paletes

PARTE V: - Riscos adicionais em máquinas

1 - Ruído

2 - Vibração

3 - Temperatura extrema

4 - Risco de incêndio e ou de explosão

5 - Emissão de poeiras ou de gases

6 - Ergonomia

7 - Radiações

8 - Riscos biológicos

9 - Riscos Elétricos

10 - Trabalho em altura / riscos de queda

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - CHEMICAL HAZARDS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187124

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The curricular unit of Chemical Hazards is intended to provide students with knowledge and tools for the evaluation and analysis of various types of risk of chemical origin to which workers may be exposed. It is intended that at the end of contact time students have acquired sufficient knowledge and ability in order to do the assessment and management of various types of risks, using the correct equipment in accordance with current legislation and standards practices.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Characteristics of substances and preparations

  • 1.1. Physico-chemical and toxicological properties
  • 1.2. Effects on health and environment
  • 1.3. Symbols and risk phrases and safety
  • 1.4. Hazards and incompatible substances

2. toxicology

3. Routes of absorption, distribution and elimination of agents

4. monitoring

  • 4.1. Exposure assessment
  • 4.2. Sampling Strategy
  • 4.3. instrumentation
  • 4.4. Safety Data Sheets

5. Selection of personal protective equipment

6. Handling and transport of dangerous substances

7. SEVESO

8. REACH

9. Explosive atmospheres (ATEX) 

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187121

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The discipline of Operational Research intends to endow the students for the resolution of complex problems of the real life in the most several areas, identifying components that can be formulated as models or associations of models, of among the vast repertoire of tools that integrate the domain of the operational investigation and to use software in the resolution of some problems.   For such the contents will be exposed following a method of exposition. Besides the algebraic resolution of the exercises proposed in the classes, the realization of will of computational is foreseen, using appropriate software. It will be presented to the student problems/work that must solve by him. Qualify the students for the acquisition of knowledge that enables it to identify problems of several areas that can be placed, and to place them under the mathematical formulation of the lineal programming. Use techniques to solve these problems, in a graphical way or through the Simplex Method and its variants. Know how to analyze the results within the sensibility and to do reoptimization using matrices methods, the duality concept and by means of reading of output of EXCEL and Qm for Windons. Identify transport problems and of assignment, using the correct procedures to solve them.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Operations Research

  • 1.1. Mathematics formulation and optimization
  • 1.2. Methodology of IO

2. Linear Programming (PL)

  • 2.1. introduction
  • 2.2. Formulation and Graphical Method
  • 2.3. Glossary and Properties
  • 2.4. Graphical Solution to a linear programming problems
  • 2.5. Special Cases in PL

3. Simplex Algorithm

  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Canonical Form and Acceptable Basic Solutions
  • 3.3. Simplex algorithm

4. Sensitivity Analysis

  • 4.1. Economical interpretation; Shadow Price.
  • 4.2. Changes in the resources
  • 4.3. Changes in the objective function coefficient
  • 4.4. introduction of new variables
  • 4.5. introduction of new restrictions

5. Transportation and Assignment Models

  • 5.1. introduction
  • 5.2. Transportation problem
  • 5.3. Assignment problem
  • 5.4. Solving Problems using Qm for Windons

6. Network Models

  • 6.1. concept of Network
  • 6.2. Shortest-Route Technique
  • 6.3. Minimal-Spanning Tree Technique
  • 6.4. Maximal-Flow Technique

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - TECHNOLOGIES AND INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187127

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The UC of Technologies and Industrial Processes (TIP) is an CU on the ​​Engineering Sciences area and, then, its objectives are:

  • a) identification, classification and description of unit operations and technologies used in industrial processes
  • b) identification and description of equipment
  • c) developing a theory for the design of industrial equipment

It is intended that by the end of the contact time students have acquired skills to know different equipment, their function and characteristics and to read a industrial process diagram.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction

  • 1.1. The Industrial process
  • 1.2. Unities systems
  • 1.3. Unit operations and technologies

2. Chemical Industries

  • 2.1. Unit operations
  • 2.2. Equipment’s

3. Material Transportation

  • 3.1. Technologies
  • 3.2. Equipment’s

4. Metallurgic Mechanical Industry

  • 4.1. Technologies
  • 4.2. Equipment`s

5. Extraction Industries

  • 5.1. Technologies
  • 5.2. Equipment`s

6. Plastic Industries

  • 6.1. Technologies
  • 6.2. Equipment`s

7. Electrical Industry

  • 7.1. Technologies
  • 7.2. Equipment`s

8. Actuation and Control

  • 8.1. Instruments
  • 8.2. Control of the Industrial process

9. Theory

  • 9.1. Statics, Dynamics and Kinematics
  • 9.2. Fluids mechanics
  • 9.3. Characteristics of the Materials
  • 9.4. Thermodynamics
  • 9.5. Chemistry, Equilibrium and kinetics
  • 9.6. Applications

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - PHYSICAL RISKS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187125

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The curricular unit of Physical hazards aims to provide students with knowledge and tools for the assessment and analysis of various types of hazard to people from physical origin.

It is intended that at the end of the contact time students have acquired sufficient knowledge and practice in order to analyze and evaluate, using the correct equipment and in according with the law and regulations, the various types of risks of physical origin which may occur in the everyday life.

It is also intended to develop practical and laboratory work related to the subjects under study.

With the completion of the curricular unit students should be able to draw up a technical report appropriate in assessment the various categories of risk.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Noise

  • 1.1. Characterization of sound
  • 1.2. Measurement and assessment of noise exposure
  • 1.3. Noise effects
  • 1.4. Environmental noise

2. Vibrations

  • 2.1. Characterization of vibration
  • 2.2. Measurement of vibrations
  • 2.3. Evaluation and control of exposure

3. Lighting

  • 3.1. Concepts and definition of Photometry
  • 3.2. Luminaires and Lamps
  • 3.3. Measurement and evaluation of lighting levels

4. Thermal environment

  • 4.1. Physical quantities of thermal environment
  • 4.2. Thermal equilibrium of the human body
  • 4.3. Thermal comfort
  • 4.4. Thermal environment assessment and Measurement

5. Radiation

  • 5.1. Ionizing radiation
  • 5.2. Non-ionizing radiation

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187126

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • 1 – To Know the general principles of work safety and apply the principles for the evaluation of risk and preventive measures.
  • 2 - Interpreting the machinery and equipment directive.
  • 3 - Identify and know the safety procedures associated with moving loads.
  • 4 - Identify and know the general principles of organization of a shipyard.
  • 5 - Identify and know the collective and individual protection equipment.
  • 6 - Know the procedures and methodologies of work in the various civil construction activities.
  • 7 - Know the legislation, in particular the temporary and mobile construction diretive.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1 – To Know the general principles of work safety and apply the principles for the evaluation of risk and preventive measures.

  • 1.1 - Concepts, definitions and their articulation with safety and health at work.
  • 1.2 - Analysis and evaluation of risks and prevention measures, with application of civil construction cases.
  • 1.3 - The importance of information and training systems,

2 - Interpreting the machinery and equipment directive.

  • 2.1 - Interpret and know the equipment and specifics of the work equipment.
  • 2.2 - Interpretation and knowledge of the machinery directive and the application to practical cases, certification, maintenance and conditions of use.

3 - Identify and know the safety procedures associated with moving loads.

  • 3.1 – To Know the procedures of use in the movement of loads and analysis of risks and prevention measures.
  • 3.2 – Safely Rules and slinging in the suspension of loads.
  • 3.3 - Know the signaling and communication systems, especially the gestural systems.

4 - Identify and know the general principles of organization of a shipyard.

  • 4.1 - Know the organization and planning in a yard, social areas, work, storage, access and circulation systems.
  • 4.2 - Know the organization and planning in a yard, in terms of communication, signaling and access control.
  • 4.3 - Know the obligations and needs in terms of the overall management of a yard, obligations and duties of the various stakeholders.

5 - Identify and know collective and individual protection equipment

  • 5.1 - Know the personal protective equipment, its functions and the way of application and use.
  • 5.2 – To Know the collective protection systems, their functions and the way installation and use.

6 – Know the procedures and methodologies of work in the various civil construction activities.

  • 6.1 – To Know the constructive processes and methodologies of intervention in the civil construction.
  • 6.2 - Know organizational and construction processes in shipyards, excavations, structures, scaffolding, machinery, roads, confined spaces, asbestos and dangerous substances.

7 - Know the legislation, in particular the temporary and mobile construction directive.

  • 7.1 - Analysis of the shipyard directive.
  • 7.2 - Implementation of the shipyard directive.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187129

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The curricular unit of Microbiology and Biological Hazards aims to provide students with basic Microbiology conceots regarding the main biological agents causing disease and their relevance for their future professional activity. Hygiene, health and safety in work activities direct or indirect contact of the worker with biological hazard agents will be studied as well as the legislation on this matter.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1 - Introduction to Microbiology: aims, importance and areas of study. Main groups of microorganisms.
  • 2 - Viruses. Characteristics, infection cycles and impact on human health and activities.
  • 3 - Eukaryotic microorganisms: fungi, algae and protozoa.
  • 4 - Bacteria: characteristics, growth and survival strategies.
  • 5 - Microbial pathogenicity: determinants of virulence.
  • 6 - Control of microbial growth: physical, chemical and chemotherapeutic agents. Microbial resistance.
  • 7 – Biological hazard. Classification. Transmission. Precaution/control measures – primary, secondary and tertiary.
  • 8 – Occupational exposition. Legislation. Risk evaluation.
  • 9 – Precaution/control measures in industry, laboratories and animal activities.
  • 10 – Biological risk assessment and management.
  • 11 - Employers Obligations. Information and notification to the competent authorities. Health surveillance of employees. Legislation.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187130

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • 1 - Know and interpret the general principles of work safety and apply the principles for risk assessment and preventive measures.
  • 2 – Prepare the safety and health plan, how to validate and approve and know and elaborate the remaining instruments.
  • 3 - Identify and know the safety procedures associated with civil construction and engineering activities.
  • 4 - Identify and know the special risks, risk analysis and preventive measures.
  • 5 - Good practices, responsibilities of the various actors and criminal responsibility.
  • 6 – To Know the legal procedures and obligations of the various actors and the application of the various instruments to be used in safety and health at work.
  • 7 - Accident analysis, reporting and reporting of serious and fatal accidents.
  • 8 - Know the legislation, in particular on temporary and mobile construction directive.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • 1 – To Know and interpret the general principles of work safety and apply the principles for risk assessment and preventive measures, according to good practices.
  • 2 - Prepare the safety and health plan, how to validate and approve and know and elaborate the remaining instruments. To Develop the prior communication of opening of construction site and the technical compilation and general principles of prevention.
  • 3 - Identify and know the safety procedures associated with the civil construction and engineering activities.
  • Building structures, trenching, excavation, scaffolding, demolition, asbestos removal, confined spaces, cargo handling, machinery and tools, roads and dangerous substances.
  • 4 - Identify and know the special risks, risk analysis and preventive measures, in the scope of the activities in development.
  • 5 - Good practices, responsibilities of the various actors and criminal responsibility. Develop and make known the responsibilities and limits of responsibility of each one of the actors the individual and collective processes of criminal responsibility, under the legislation in force.
  • 6 – To Know the legal procedures and obligations of the various actors and the application of the various instruments to be used in safety and health at work and legal obligations.
  • To Develop the procedures and methodologies of each one of the actors, in relation to equipment, such as a reception, registration of workers, accident rates and registration of subcontractors.
  • 7 - Accident analysis, reporting and reporting of serious and fatal accidents. Have knowledge to comply with all legal procedures in the event of a serious or fatal accident.
  • 8 - Know the legislation, in particular the temporary and mobile construction directive.

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - TRAINING CONCEPTION AND MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187131

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

1 - Develop skills in the management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of training, through flexible and active methodologies adapted to the contexts in which the training is developed;

2 - Develop skills in the planning of training interventions, definition of the methodological format and the evaluation of training;

3 - Promote the acquisition, updating and improvement of skills in training practices, at its various levels.

4 - Promote skills in the following areas;

  • - Design and management of training plans in specific contexts:
  • - Training design and planning;
  • - Conducting diagnostics of training needs;
  • - Preparation of training intervention plans;
  • - Organization and promotion of training.
  • - Planning of training interventions:
  • - Selection of teaching methods and techniques;
  • - Training planning and operationalization

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Professional training

  • 1.1. Frameworks of the professional training: European and national training policies; Portuguese legislation.
  • 1.2. The National Systems of Qualifications (SNQ) and The National Catalog of Qualifications (CNQ)
  • 1.3. Theoretical foundations and fundamental concepts of professional training
  • 1.4. Types of training interventions
  • 1.5. Types of training delivery

2. The trainers’ profile and frameworks

  • 2.1. Legal framework for the trainer activity
  • 2.2. The trainer profile

3. Learning

  • 3.1. Essential concepts
  • 3.2. Pedagogy and andragogy
  • 3.3. The influence of cognitive factors and styles
  • 3.4. Pedagogical creativity and entrepreneurship
  • 3.5. Differentiation in pedagogy
  • 3.6. Disruptive learning and Neurolinguistics’ programming

4. Communication and promotion of groups in education

  • 4.1. Communication and relational behavior
  • 4.2. Diversity in the formative context

5. Pedagogical approaches and methodologies

  • 5.1. Methods and techniques
  • 5.2. Pedagogical creativity
  • 5.3. Inclusive and differentiated pedagogy and learning

6. Training operationalization: from planning to action

  • 6.1. Competencies and learning operational objectives
  • 6.2. Designing the training and learning process

7. Learning assessment

  • 7.1. The concept, aims, targets and indicators
  • 7.2. Types of learning assessment
  • 7.3. Criteria and grading scales in learning assessment
  • 7.4. Reliability, validity and objectivity
  • 7.5 Assessment techniques and instruments

8. On-job training evaluation

  • 8.1 Types of training evaluation: main characteristics and targets
  • 8.2. The participants in training evaluation: roles and competencies.
  • 8.3. Gathering information: methods and instruments
  • 8.4. The transfer of training

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - PSYCHOSOCIAL HAZARDS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187132

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

  • 1. Identify categories of psychosocial risks at work;
  • 2. Contribute to the prevention of work related psychosocial risks;
  • 3. Contribute to the conception of strategies to manage psychosocial risks at the workplace.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Psychosocial Risks at Work:

  • 2.1. Violence in the Workplace
  • 2.2. Harassment
  • 2.3. Sexual Harassment

3. Absenteeism/Presenteeism

  • 3.1. Stress
  • 3.2. Sources of Stress at Work
  • 3.3. Burnout
  • 3.4. Boreout

5. Lone Work

6. Risk assessment methods

7. Good working practices


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CURRICULAR UNIT - ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 1st Semester 
Código UC nº 8187133

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The Organizational Management and Planning course, aims to develop knowledge about the functioning of an organization, placing the focus on the manager`s functions in a scenario of constant change and increasing globalization.

The objectives / skills to be developed are:

  • 1 – To Analyze the management environment and to assess how organizational culture and business environment condition decision-making;
  • 2 – To Analyze the impact and importance of globalization for the organization and potential internationalization strategies;
  • 3 – To Analyze the impacts of corporate behaviors on issues of social responsibility and ethics of the organization;
  • 4 – To link planning and strategic management;
  • 5 – To link information flows with the decision-making processes;
  • 6 – To Analyze the consequences to organization, of the particular choice of model and form of communication;
  • 7 – To link leadership and motivation with corporate best-practices and organizational success;
  • 8 – To Identify management techniques and control methods within the organization;
  • 9 – To look into the increasing importance of quality management process for the sustainability of the organization.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • CP1. Organization and Management Evolution
  • CP2. Definition of the Business Environment
  • CP3. Globalization
  • CP4. Social and ethical responsibility
  • CP5. Planning
  • CP6. Strategic planning
  • CP7. Decision-making
  • CP8. Motivation and Leadership  

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - OCCUPATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187135

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The UC Occupational Risk Management (GRP) is, basically, an UC of synthesis and, then, its objectives are:

  • a) Synthesize, integrate and consolidate knowledge and skills acquired throughout the course.
  • b) Prepare students to manage, in a comprehensive way, the dynamics and systemic risk present in a production process.

It is intended that by the end of the contact time students have acquired skills to learn how to apply an occupational risk management process, using, coherently, the knowledge acquired. 

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Introduction

  • 1.1. Occupational risk management process
  • 1.2. Objectives
  • 1.3. Knowledge integration
  • 1.4. Competencies integration

2. Case study

  • 2.1. Introduction – definition of the case to study
  • 2.2. Planning
  • 2.3. Risk assessment
  • 2.4. Risk control
  • 2.5. Process monitoring
  • 2.6. Treatment of remaining risks
  • 2.7. Discussion and conclusions

3. Results presentation

  • 3.1. Preparing a presentation/report
  • 3.2. Oral or poster presentation 

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187138

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

Ethics and Deontology has the following objectives:

  • 1) acquire knowledge and relevant information of fundamental concepts of Ethics and Deontology about different problems related to professional ethics and practical aspects involving.
  • 2) formulate performance criteria on aspects related to professional practice.
  • 3) to develop conscience and the ethical and civic responsibility, in general and in the professional scope, as well as social and environmental responsibility.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Nature and fundamentals of Ethics. Ethical approaches

2. Key notions: Human liberty, human actions and responsibility.

3. Conscience and its formation. Ethics intent and moral norms.

4. Business ethics. The company as an ethically responsible organization.

  • 4.1 Person, society and Common Good.
  • 4.1.2 social and environmental responsibility of companies
  • 4.2 Ethics, leadership and organizational climate
  • 5. Ethics, professionalism and deontology
  • 5.1. Professional activity and ethical conduct
  • 5.2. Deontological code of the order of the engineers: duties and commitments

 

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CURRICULAR UNIT - PREVENTION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
3rd Year – 2nd Semester 
Código UC nº 8187137

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED    

The curricular unit of Prevention Systems Management has, as a general objective, to provide students with tools and instruments for the design, implementation and sustainable development of Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems.

It is intended that, at the end of the unit, students have acquired sufficient theoretical and practical bases to be able to design, implement and develop OSHMS according to normative guidelines OHSAS 18001 and NP4397, replaced and improved by ISSO 45001: 2018 taking into account of the “ILO Practical Guidelines on OSH Management Systems”.

Upon completion of the curricular unit, students should not only be able to identify and understand the principles and concepts of Prevention Management, according to the requirements of the reference standards, but also be able to apply them in different models of organizations.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

  • - Security as a management factor in organizations:
  • - Basic concepts and definitions: Danger, Risk, Near Accident, Incident, Accident, Occupational Disease, Work-Related Disease, Integrated Safety, Prevention Measures, Protection Measures, Risk Assessment and Control;
  • - The Deming operational cycle and its components;
  • - General requirements of an SGSST;
  • - Security in the organization. OSH Policy and Commitment;
  • - Planning;
  • - Hazards identification, risk assessment and determination of control measures;
  • - Identification, assessment and management of occupational risks;
  • - Legal and other requirements. Identification of applicable legal requirements and their applicability;
  • - Definition of objectives and programs;
  • - Implementation and operation;
  • - Resources, roles, responsibility and obligations;
  • - Awareness raising, training and skills acquisition;
  • - Information, participation and consultation;
  • - Documentation, document control and operational control;
  • - Emergency preparedness and response;
  • - Verification. Conformity Assessment. measurement and monitoring performance;
  • - Investigation of incidents and accidents, non-conformities, preventive actions and corrective actions;
  • - Internal and external audits. Management review.