SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTModule SAFETY OF MACHINES AND SYSTEMS
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Sabina Iole Giuseppina FAILLAExpected Learning Outcomes
A) Knowledge and understanding abilities
B) Applying knowledge and understanding abilities
C)
D) Communication skills
E) Learning skills
Course Structure
The teaching includes 28 hours of lectures and 28 hours of practice (classroom, on-farm, seminars and technical excursions).
If the teaching were to be conducted in a blended mode or online, specific changes from the syllabus may need to be introduced.
Information for students with disabilities and / or SLD: to guarantee equal opportunities and in compliance with the laws in force, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and / or dispensatory measures, based on the didactic objectives and specifications needs. It is also possible to contact the referent professor CinAP (Centro per l’Inclusione Attiva e Partecipata) of our Department.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
Standards
Developments in legislation on health and safety. Hierarchy of the sources. Consolidated Law on Safety (d.leg.vo 81/2008). Machine Directives.
The risk: General Aspects and Methodological
Equipment and protective systems. General Precautions. The risks related to the use of machinery and work equipment. Evaluation indexes.
The risk and working activities.
Process and Risk Management. Measures of prevention, protection and training in the workplace. Classification of Risks. Operational methods of investigation analysis. Risk measurement. Investigative tool "The checklists (check -list)". Risk weight. Analysis of incidents and specific techniques.
Work environments and work management
Assessment of the environmental microclimate. Risk Assessment by hot environments and cold severe environments and Evaluation Indexes. Risk profiles and evaluation in dairies. Risk profiles of organization of work in the Manual Movement of Loads (MMC) and repetitive movements. Indices Rating MMC. The personal protective equipment (PPE) at the workplace.
The risk categories identification.
Risk assessment. Phases and activities of the evaluation and treatment of the risk process.
Examples of treatment of risk in working conditions
Risk analysis at installations for the production of biogas. risk profiles and evaluation in dairies. Safety in the work activities in the winery. of rishio profiles from exposure to solar radiation. Methods of risk reduction with small self-propelled equipments. Chemical risk: definitions. The main risks from chemicals. Classification of substances and preparations. The CLP standard. Symbols and indications of danger. Noise and vibration exposure in workplaces: references quantities; frequency analysis; measurement equipment; legislative references; PPEs; examples in agro-industrial plants.
Textbook Information
1. Oddo A., Banedetti E., Petringa Nicolosi R. – La Sicurezza delle macchine e attrezzature di lavoro. Wolters Kluwer Italia S.r.l.
2. Patrizia Cinquina – Sicurezza e prevenzione in agricoltura. Maggioli Editore
3. Teaching materials distributed during the lessons
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legislative evolution and Hierarchy of regulatory sources. | Oddo A., Banedetti E., Petringa Nicolosi R. – La Sicurezza delle macchine e attrezzature di lavoro. Wolters Kluwer Italia S.r.l. |
| 2 | Testo Unico on safety in the workplace | Oddo A., Banedetti E., Petringa Nicolosi R. – La Sicurezza delle macchine e attrezzature di lavoro. Wolters Kluwer Italia S.r.l. |
| 3 | Machine Directives | Oddo A., Banedetti E., Petringa Nicolosi R. – La Sicurezza delle macchine e attrezzature di lavoro. Wolters Kluwer Italia S.r.l. |
| 4 | The actors in the prevention system | Patrizia Cinquina – Sicurezza e prevenzione in agricoltura. Maggioli Editore |
| 5 | Risk assessment, weighting, treatment | Patrizia Cinquina – Sicurezza e prevenzione in agricoltura. Maggioli Editore |
| 6 | Chemical Risk and the CLP Regulation | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
| 7 | Model of Chemical Risk Assessment | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
| 8 | Microclimate Risk and Assessment in Severe Hot and Severe Cold Environments | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
| 9 | Factors of well-being, Ergonomics and occupational diseases | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
| 10 | Manual Handling of Loads and Rating Indexes | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
| 11 | Assessment of the Risk of Handling Loads | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
| 12 | HL Risk Assessment with OCRA INDEX and OCRA | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
| 13 | Risk Analysis and Assessment in Biogas Production Plants | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
| 14 | Analysis and Assessment of Risk in Dairies | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
| 15 | Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
| 16 | The risk of noise and vibration in workplaces | Teaching materials given out during the lectures |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Verification of learning takes place through an oral interview on topics of the lessons.
The evaluation of the student's preparation will take place on the basis of the following criteria: i) learning ability and level of depth of the topics covered; ii) properties of synthesis and exposure; iii) properties of technical language and overall expressive ability.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
2. Risk Assessment and knowledge of the Assessment Indices
3. Qualitative assessment examples