Occupational Safety and Well-beingLaajuus (3 ECTS)

Objective

After completion of this course the student understands the importance of occupational safety and is familiar with the different sectors of occupational safety. The student has become aware of the factors influencing the well-being of a work community, such as personal positive mental health, occupational hygiene and factors affecting the working capacity of the employees, in addition to the main characters of a functional organisation.
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After completion of this course the student is able to perform risk assessment in both laboratory and industrial plant environments.
The student can specify mechanical, physical, chemical, biological, social and mental risks and participate in the development of the occupational safety functions within the organisation.

Content

The main items of the course are
- the act of organizing occupational safety at the workplace and the related legislation,
- anticipatory occupational safety, ie. identification and control of work related hazards, systematic risk assessment,
- well-being of work communities, conflict handling, interacting in a work community, attributes of a functional work community.

Qualifications

Inorganic and analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, microbiology

Further information

Class room teaching: 35 h
Project: 10 h
Student individual workload (student workload analysis carried out 1/06): 35 h
Total: 80 h
Follow-up of the student workload analysis performed: -