Master's Degree in Occupational Health and Safety with a mention in Occupational Risk Prevention (association with the Universidad Hemisferios) IMF Smart Education Ecuador

Develops and directs vital safety systems focused on prevention and health in organizations.

• -5% for cash payment
• 100% online methodology
• For 3rd grade graduates

Program features

Qualification:

• Master in Occupational Health and Safety and Occupational Risk Prevention from Universidad de Los Hemisferios (Postgraduate degree registered at CES and recognized by SENESCYT)

Approved:

• Master in Occupational Risk Prevention by IMF Academic Institution

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Professional outings

• Director of Quality, Sustainability or Risk Management
• Technician responsible for the implementation of Quality and Management Systems
• Quality and Environment Technician
• Consultant or Auditor of Quality Systems
• Consultant or Auditor of Management Systems
• Director of Quality, Environment or Occupational Risk Prevention
• Consultant specialized in occupational health and safety management
• Trainer in risk prevention
• Head of occupational health and safety
• Head of risk analysis and control area
• Health and hygiene technician

Knowledge and skills

Multiple skills that will open doors for you

The specific academic training of the students of the Master's program in Occupational Health and Safety with a mention in Occupational Risk Prevention, provides professionals with the possibility of:

• Evaluate, plan, develop and coordinate preventive action in companies
• Develop risk assessments that require non-mechanical measurements or interpretations of the assessment criteria, taking into account all preventive disciplines
• Provide training and information of a general nature, at all levels, and in aspects such as industrial hygiene, safety at work and ergonomics
• Identify and evaluate risks and damages to workers' health
• Implement a health and safety system in companies and establish procedures to control the effectiveness of planned measures
• Manage the necessary resources for the development and implementation of intervention programs and plans to improve working conditions in the company
• Participate in research on damage to workers' health
• Obtain methodological and instrumental training that is useful in your professional and research life

Advantages of the Online Methodology

Effective learning experience:

Access through the Virtual Campus, in a simple, friendly and intuitive way, to all the resources, didactics and content necessary to achieve the development of the necessary competencies and skills .

Thanks to the design and the didactic sequence, the student determines the work load and rhythm , being able at all times through the platform to request the guidance and support of the teachers and tutors.

Personalized tutorials:

Tutorials, classes and virtual practical experiences in real time that allow students to interact with the teacher to develop practical and relevant aspects of the content of the subject.

Sessions held every two weeks, on Thursday afternoon, Friday afternoon and Saturday. (* The schedule will be adjusted to the teaching sequence, seeking to be compatible with the work activity)

Academic disposition:

The master's degree organizes the eleven subjects of which it is composed in two ordinary academic periods of 18 weeks duration. For this reason, the student has five weeks to achieve the learning objectives of each subject. Contents

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Legal aspects of occupational risk prevention

• Work and Health: occupational risk
• Work pathologies
• Prevention and protection of health
• Legal framework of the PRL
• PRL law
• Regulation of PRL services
• Transversal legislation of PRL
• PRL technical legislation
• Industrial safety legislation
• Other criteria applicable to Prevention
• Coaching and leadership
• Business ethics management

Preventive planning

• Prevention management: PRL plan
• Identification of hazards and risk factors
• Risk assessment methodology
• Planning of preventive action
• Active controls
• Passive controls
• Safety rules
• Health promotion in the company
• Epidemiology
• Lifeguard and first aid

Safety at Work

• Work places
• Work teams
• Work teams II
• Electric risk
• Electrical risk II
• Facilities: heating, AA,….
• Pressure devices
• Storage
• Storage of chemicals and waste
• Work at height
• Work in confined spaces
• Fires
• Self-protection plans
• Signaling
• Building

Industrial hygiene

• Chemical agents: types of pollutants
• Chemical agents: exposure to pollutants
• Chemical agents: exposure control
• Chemical agents: exposure control II
• Chemical agents: toxicology
• Chemical agents: specific risks
• Physical agents: noise
• Physical agents: vibration
• Physical agents: thermal environment
• Physical agents: lighting
• Physical agents: ionizing radiation
• Physical agents: non-ionizing radiation
• Biological agents; Biological risk
• Biological agents: control of biological risk
• Biological agents: legionella

Degree Plan

• Design and implementation of projects with applied research and / or development components
• Design and writing of high-level professional articles
• Analysis of practical models for the development of the exam of complex character

Ergonomics and applied psychosociology

• Ergonomics: concepts
• Ergonomics - workplace design
• Ergonomics: physical postural load and movements
• Ergonomics: manual handling of loads
• Ergonomics - data display screens (PVD)
• Ergonomics: thermohygrometric comfort
• Ergonomics: light comfort
• Ergonomics: acoustic comfort
• Ergonomics: air quality
• Psychosocial: mental burden
• Psychosocial: risk factors
• Psychosocial: risk assessment and study
• Psychosocial: stress
• Psychosocial: burn out
• Psychosocial: moobing

Related topics

• Training needs detection
• Training planning
• Training effectiveness
• information
• Communication
• Negotiation techniques
• Conflict resolution regarding prevention
• Leadership
• Decision making
• Business ethics and deontology

Occupational risk prevention systems

• Management Systems in legislation
• ISO 45001: structure and models of management systems
• ISO 45001: context of organization and leadership
• ISO 45001: management system planning
• ISO 45001: implementation and performance
• ISO 45001: verification, review and improvement
• ISO 45001: quality management systems
• ISO 45001: environmental management systems
• Integration of management systems
• Road safety

Audit of PRL management systems

• ISO 19011: 2018. Audit characteristics
• ISO 19011: 2018. Planning and scheduling audits
• ISO 19011: 2018. The audit process
• ISO 19011: 2018. Conduct of audit activities
• ISO 19011: 2018. The audit report
• ISO 19011: 2018. Audit follow-up
• Economics of occupational risk prevention
• Prevention of occupational risks in the construction sector
• Prevention of occupational hazards in the extractive industries sector and the transport sector
• Prevention of occupational hazards in the fishing sector and agricultural sector

Corporate Social Responsibility

• Introduction to CSR. Links with quality, the environment and occupational health and safety
• Corporate social responsibility and situation in Spain
• Social responsibility of companies and SMEs
• Standards and models for CSR management
• CSR management according to the SGE21 standard and integration

Professional deontology

• Humanistic vision for technical management and professional ethics
• Ethics of the public service facing the risks of arbitrariness and abuse of power.
• Ethical responsibility for environmental care and other global problems.
• Scope of liability

Admission profile

Given the nature of the program, third-level graduates will enter.

Those professionals whose degrees belong to the broad field of Services in accordance with the nomenclature of professional titles and academic degrees access preferentially.

Other professionals who have a third-level degree in a different broad field, accrediting professional or academic experience in positions or activities related to occupational health and safety.