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Synthetic program:

The course aims to provide the necessary competences to the students to perform the risk assessment for workers exposed to hazard of chemical, physical and biologica1 origin; as well as to perform experimental verifications for risk assessment and to define the improving actions. 1. History and principles of the prevention. Signs of biology, anatomy and physiology. Changes happened in the organization of the job of the countries industrialized. Definition of danger, risk, accident, professional illness, job-in partnership illness 2. The risks of chemical origin: Principles of toxicology. Toxicological Risk (general concepts, toxic effects of chemical substances, relationships dose-response and dose-effect, pathways of exposure, metabolism and elimination of toxicants, carcinogenesis, mutagenesis and teratogenesis). Toxicology of Metals, Gases and Solvents. Estimation of generations, techniques for planning of the investigations and evaluation of the results, analysis of the principal methods of environmental improvement. 3. The risks of physical nature. The microclimate, the energetic balance applied to the human body, criterions of evaluation for moderate environments, criterions of evaluation for warm severe environments, criterions of evaluation for cold severe environments. The noise, characteristics of the sounds, techniques of measure and evaluation of the data. Vibrations, techniques of measure. 4. The risks of biological nature: Definitions of the principal classes of biological agents: Bacteria, Virus, infecting yeast and mould, allergens and profiles of risk. 5. Occupational Health. Signs to the Professional Diseases: professional cancer, renal and liver pathologies, allergies and dermatopathies, muscle-skeletal disorders, vasculopathies and neuropathies. Signs of Ergonomics and Epidemiology