Objectives and competences
Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the Interuniversity Master's Degree in Occupational Safety and Health: Prevention of Occupational Hazards is aimed at all the university graduates who are interested in this area, and specifically in prevention of occupational risks.
Since the Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1995 and the Royal Decree on Prevention Services of 1997, companies are obliged to have prevention resources that must be established by qualified experts. The aim of this master's degree is to train professionals with the knowledge, skills and abilities required to take on professional responsibilities as experts in occupational risk prevention. The master's degree offers the following three specialisations: Safety at Work, Industrial Hygiene, and Ergonomics and Applied Social Psychology. It also gives access to doctoral studies. The general objectives of the master's degree are:
- To standardise the basic knowledge of students from different fields in the areas of knowledge that are fundamental in studies of occupational hazard prevention.
- To gain the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes required to work at a high level in occupational hazard prevention.
- To gain knowledge of the three specialisations in non-medical areas of prevention (Safety at Work, Industrial Hygiene, as well as Ergonomics and Applied Social Psychology).
Basic information
| Type | Master's degree |
|---|---|
| Faculty or school | Faculty of Psychology |
| Branch of knowledge |
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| Mode of delivery |
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| Credits | 90 |
| Length of course | 2 academic years |
| Coordination | RAMON FERRER PUIG |
| Course details | Indicators |
| Open pre-enrolment | No |
| Open enrolment | No |
| Lead to doctoral studies | Yes |
| Admission for applicants not holding a degree qualification | No |
| Main university information | Master's degree course homepage |
| Interuniversity | Yes |
| Main university | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| Universities |
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| Bridging courses | No |
Objectives and competences
Objectives
Competences
- Knowledge of legislation on workplace health and ability to follow updates to this legislation, identify the autonomous community, national and European technical bodies related to workplace health and safety and interpret specific legislation and technical regulations concerning matters of safety in the workplace.
- Sufficient technical knowledge to carry out risk assessments and to suggest corrective measures for general hazards related to the workplace, facilities, working equipment, fire hazards, explosions, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, applied psychosociology, etc.
- Ability to apply prevention-related techniques: product safety, management of capital assets and road safety, and communication techniques in the prevention of workplace risks.
- Abiity to identify and differentiate between the basic elements of organisation, management and integration of health and safety within a company.
- Good negotiation techniques, research techniques into workplace health, design and evaluation of ventilation systems, etc.
- Ability to identify and differentiate between advanced techniques of noise evaluation and control in industry, mechanisms for transmission and entry routes for biological agents.
- Ability to identify and differentiate between specific risks associated with construction, machinery, agricultural installations, offices, computer equipment, etc., and to develop intervention plans to correct them.
- Ability to coordinate health and safety activities with health awareness activities and to provide first aid.
- Ability to promote the system of responsibilities regarding workplace risk prevention.
- Ability to develop emergency plans, training plans and information plans for employees, including detection of needs and establishment of evaluation systems and monitoring measures.
- Ability to communicate appropriately with employees and their representatives and with other technical and management agents in the company with responsibilities in the area of workplace health and safety conditions.
- Ability to evaluate chemical, physical and biological risks in relation to physical and mental strain at work, etc., and to suggest corrective measures.
- Ability to draw up health and safety plans, biological waste management plans, works safety plans, etc. Ability to apply epidemiological methods to solving problems and to design epidemiological studies to check hypotheses.
- Ability to manage disasters related to the climate, road accidents involving hazardous chemical products, radioactive substances or fires.
- Ability to prevent and detect psychosocial problems and to implement techniques of adaptation between the demands of the job and the employee's abilities.
- Ability to encourage healthy behaviour, habits, consumption and lifestyles and the active participation of employees in their own health, while encouraging a culture of health and safety within the company and the creation of healthy environments.
- Ability to exchange and integrate information with multidisciplinary teams and to exercise workplace risk prevention in accordance with ethical criteria.
Access and admission
Applicant profile and access requirements
Recommended applicant profile
Access requirements and conditions
General requirementsStudents wishing to be admitted to a university master's degree must hold one of the following qualifications:
- Official Spanish university degree.
- A degree issued by a higher education institution within the European Higher Education Area framework that authorizes the holder to access university master's degree courses in the country of issue.
- A qualification issued by an institution outside the framework of the European Higher Education Area. In this case, applicants must request homologation of the degree to its equivalent official Spanish university qualification or obtain express approval from the University of Barcelona, which will conduct a study of equivalence to ensure that the degree is of a comparable level to an official Spanish university qualification and that it grants access to university master's degree study in the country of issue. Admission shall not, in any case, imply that prior qualifications have been recognized as equivalent to a Spanish master's degree and does not confer recognition for any purposes other than that of admission to the master's degree course.
Pre-enrolment
Calendar
Pre-enrolment is carried out at the coordinating university.
Further information
Required documentation
Selection criteria
Notification
Enrolment
As a general rule, at the UB you will be required to enrol online. Remember that you can lose your place if you do not enrol on the day you have been assigned
- Documents required for enrolment
- Procedure to formalize enrolment
- Grants and financial aid (in Catalan)
- Economic information (in Catalan)
Course curriculum
Subjects and course plans
Distribution of credits
| Type | ECTS |
|---|---|
| Compulsory | 69 |
| Optional | 0 |
| Compulsory placements | 12 |
| Compulsory final project | 9 |
| TOTAL | 90 |
List of subjects
| Subject | Type | Language | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specialization: Occupational Health and Safety: Occupational Risk Prevention | |||
| Business and Society | Compulsory | 4 | |
| Corporate Economic and Financial Analysis | Compulsory | 3 | |
| Ergonomics in the Workplace I | Compulsory | 6 | |
| Ergonomics in the Workplace I | Compulsory | 3 | |
| Final Project | Compulsory | 9 | |
| Health and Safety Legislation | Compulsory | 3 | |
| Health Monitoring | Compulsory | 3 | |
| Industrial Hygiene I | Compulsory | 4 | |
| Industrial Hygiene II | Compulsory | 6 | |
| Institutional or Company Placement | Compulsory | 12 | |
| Management of the Occupational Risk Prevention | Compulsory | 3 | |
| Occupational Epidemiology | Compulsory | 3 | |
| Occupational Social Psychology I | Compulsory | 3 | |
| Occupational Social Psychology II | Compulsory | 6 | |
| Organization of Work | Compulsory | 3 | |
| Principles of Prevention | Compulsory | 3 | |
| Quality and the Environment | Compulsory | 3 | |
| Safety at Work I | Compulsory | 4 | |
| Safety at Work II | Compulsory | 6 | |
| Training and Communication | Compulsory | 3 | |
Previous years
Placements
Placements in a company or another type of organization are an integral part of university studies, providing first-hand experience of working methodologies in students' chosen professional fields. They offer invaluable practical experience for the transition into work after graduation.
Placements are supervised by tutors and subject to assessment. They are therefore included in the academic record. There is also an option to complete non-curricular placements of up to 500 hours, which can be extended to 900 hours. For both curricular and non-curricular placements, an educational cooperation agreement is signed between the UB and the company, institution or other organization at which the placement will be carried out.
Institutional information