Aims

- To familiarize the future engineers with the organizational, human and technical factors of safety and occupational hygiene.
- To provide the basic knowledge needed for the recognition of the risks of accidents and disease, their evaluation and their control.
- To make them in general aware of the consequences on the human level and the health in particular of the technological choices and techniques which they will contribute to bring into their future companies.

Main themes

- Introduction to the operation of safety and hygiene into the companies
- Introduction to the analysis of the industrial accidents
- General methodology of recognition - evaluation and hazard control
- Application of this methodology in some fields:
chemical risk: toxicology, evaluation of environment, industrial ventilation
acoustical risk: noise control
thermal risk: comfort and thermal stress
musculoskeletal disorders and back problems
not-ionizing radiations.

Content and teaching methods

1. Introduction
Organization of hygiene and safety, prevention advisers, legal bodies, place of the hierarchy.
Distribution of the roles and the responsibilities.
Belgian and European regulations.
2. Global management of the risks
Management of the risks
economic and social indicators
industrial accidents
Strategy for risk prevention
3. Risks related to the physical and chemical environment
Basic physical concepts.
Effects on health.
Methods of screening of the risks.
Evaluation of the exposure: methodology, equipment.
Quantification of the risks.
Methodology of reduction of the risks.
Management practices in the company with specific role of the hierarchy.