UMH - Master's in Occupational Risk Prevention

The fundamental objective of the Occupational Risk Prevention Master's Program is to train senior technicians in occupational risk prevention in its specialties of Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, and Ergonomics and Applied Psychosociology.

Career opportunities

Royal Decree 39/1997, amended by Royal Decree 337/2010, states that performing the functions related to the profession of senior technician in occupational risk prevention shall require possession of an official university degree and a minimum of training accredited by a university with the contents specified in the program that Annex VI refers to, whose duration shall not be less than 600 hours and have a time distribution appropriate for each training project, respecting that established in the cited annex. This means that the training accredited by a university is only a requirement for carrying out these functions.

Once the graduate has this training accredited, they must contact the competent labor authority in their autonomous community and ask to register in the prevention technician registry for that territory. This action will entitle them to practice as a senior technician in occupational risk prevention.

Master's coordinator

CARDONA LLORENS, ANTONIO FRANCISCO J.
antonio.cardona(arroba)umh.es
+34 96 591 9520

Curriculum

ECTS credits: 60

Core	Required	Electives	External internships	Final Master's Project
0	33	9	4.5	13.5

Design

This master's program is comprised of 60 ECTS credits that are given over one academic year in an on-line format.

REQUIRED SUBJECT MATTER: RISK PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT (33 ECTS credits)
- Introduction to Occupational Risk Prevention, 4.5 credits
- Occupational Risk Prevention Management, 4.5 credits
- Techniques in Occupational Risk Prevention I, 6 credits
- Techniques in Occupational Risk Prevention II, 4.5 credits

ELECTIVE SUBJECT MATTER: RISK PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT (9 credits are chosen from the 13.5 offered)
- Assessment of Occupational Disability, 4.5 credits
- Environmental Management, 4.5 credits
- Responsibility and Sanctions in the Prevention of Occupational Risks, 4.5 credits

REQUIRED SUBJECT MATTER: BUSINESS INTERNSHIPS (4.5 credits)

REQUIRED SUBJECT MATTER: SPECIALTIES (13.5 credits)
- Ergonomics and Applied Psychosociology Specialty, 4.5 credits
- Industrial Hygiene Specialty, 4.5 credits
- Occupational Safety Specialty, 4.5 credits

REQUIRED SUBJECT MATTER: FINAL MASTER'S PROJECT (13.5 credits)

On-site examinations take place in Sant Joan d'Alacant and other Spanish cities, while the Final Master's Project is presented in Alicante.

Courses

Subject matter	Course	ECTS credits	Type	Year/Semester
				1
				F	S
ASSESSM. AND MANAG. LABOR RISKS ELECTIVE
	ASSESSMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL DISABILITY
		ASSESSMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL DISABILITY	4.5	Elective	■
	ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
		ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT	4.5	Elective	■
	RESPONSIBILITY AND SANCTIONS IN THE PREVENTION OF OCCUPATIONAL RISKS
		RESPONSIBILITY AND SANCTIONS IN THE PREVENTION OF OCCUPATIONAL RISKS	4.5	Elective	■
COMMON MODULE
	ERGONOMICS AND APPLIED PSYCHOSOCIOLOGY SPECIALTY
		ERGONOMICS AND APPLIED PSYCHOSOCIOLOGY SPECIALTY	4.5	Required		■
	INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE SPECIALTY
		INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE SPECIALTY	4.5	Required		■
	INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION
		INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION	4.5	Required	■
	OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION MANAGEMENT
		OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION MANAGEMENT	4.5	Required	■
	OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY SPECIALTY
		OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY SPECIALTY	4.5	Required		■
	TECHNIQUES IN OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION I
		TECHNIQUES IN OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION I	6	Required	■
	TECHNIQUES IN OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION II
		TECHNIQUES IN OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION II	4.5	Required	■
FINAL MASTER'S PROJECT
	FINAL MASTER'S PROJECT
		FINAL MASTER'S PROJECT	13.5	Final Master's Proj.		■
INTERNSHIPS
	BUSINESS INTERNSHIPS: PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
		BUSINESS INTERNSHIPS: PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES	4.5	Internships		■

Competencies

General competencies

Know how to apply acquired knowledge and have problem solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader contexts related to occupational risk prevention.
Be capable of integrating knowledge and handling the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, while incomplete or limited, includes reflections about social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of knowledge and judgments.
Know how to communicate conclusions and the latest knowledge and rationale that sustain them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner.
Possess learning skills that allow for continuing education in a manner that will be largely self-directed or independent.
Apply knowledge through the extrapolation of determinants in multidisciplinary contexts that permit designing and developing problem solving strategies specific to workplace prevention, with special attention to the specifics of gender and groups with particular characteristics, like the disabled.
Develop the ability to apply, in a contextualized and integrated manner, general concepts associated with quality control, associating it to the changing social and scientific reality and applied to current legislation, and on the basis of this, be able to design creative and functional processes and approaches that permit their application in multiple contexts.
Increase, understand, and extend legal, health, and technical knowledge related to industrial safety and hygiene, which is the basis for identification, improvement, and prevention procedures in working conditions and which determines the development of occupational pathologies.
Broaden and deepen in-depth knowledge related to technical development of ergonomics and psychosociology from a prevention perspective and from an active identification perspective about the factors related to its creative development.

Specific competencies

In-depth knowledge about the legal area of prevention, dealing with the specifics of different socioeconomic environments.
Understand and apply different techniques for identifying and evaluating work conditions.
Understand and identify the dangers associated with safety conditions in the workplace and be capable of designing and applying specific control procedures there.
Understand and apply knowledge about ergonomics and psychosociology in different socio-productive contexts.
In-depth knowledge about industrial hygiene techniques related to the analysis, identification, and specific risk controls: physical, chemical, and biological.
Understand and apply knowledge related to health vigilance and promotion at a company and be able to design programs that develop them.
Understand and apply general and specific aspects associated with prevention management and the transmission of information related to its application and adapted to the specific context.
Manage and apply communication, information, and negotiation techniques adapted to the context of occupational prevention.
Integrate knowledge deriving from techniques similar and related to the prevention of occupational risks such as product safety, environmental management, industrial safety, road safety, etc. Be able to integrate them into occupational prevention processes and plans.
Understand and develop skills to further the competencies required in risk prevention into different professional environments.
Apply knowledge associated to the diagnosis and identification of occupational pathology in order to evaluate occupational disability.
Understand and develop environmental management strategies.
Understand and be able to transmit information related to the responsibilities and sanctions deriving from work conditions and associated with risk prevention.
Know how to update knowledge acquired differently, especially through research applied to the work environment, and be able to develop critical skills in relation to the acquisition and application of the knowledge acquired.

Final Master's Project

Specific regulations

This section's main objective is to present some guidelines and a common framework for the Final Master's Project.

The main basis of this course is the fulfillment of a project preferably professional in nature that may be set at a particular business or institution, which is then defended orally before an examining committee.

The project's specific content must cover aspects from the three prevention specialties and demonstrate student mastery of the basic concepts and techniques studied. The professional competencies from the area of occupational risk prevention must be evident throughout the project, in addition to the transversal competencies from the program's three specialties.

The project's general objective consists in designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating an intervention project within the occupational risk prevention framework in organizations that is based on a thorough analysis of the needs of a productive organization that freely chooses the student following prior consultation with his or her project advisor.

Likewise, and following authorization by the advisor of the assigned project, the Final Master's Project may consist of experimental work or literature review and research, provided that it applies the competencies acquired in the program, and is transversal in nature, employing techniques and knowledge from the prevention specialties that are of a technical nature.

The project's structure must contain at least the following sections: summary, introduction, justification, objectives, body of the applied or research project, conclusions, bibliography, annexes.

Students are supervised by master's faculty and/or professionals related to the sector the project develops in. Each student must publicly defend his or her work before an examining committee lasting approximately 15 minutes. The presentation constitutes one of the grading criteria, and any support resources deemed necessary may be utilized. Upon conclusion of the presentation, the examining committee members have their turn to intervene. The student will be given the time needed to answer the questions posed and the clarifications requested. A committee will be formed for grading the final master's project.

Grading criteria are explained in the master's specific online platform (http://umh.otp.es/).

Access and Admissions

Access

For access to official master's education, applicants must hold either an official Spanish university degree or one conferred by a higher education institution in a country belonging to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) that entitles access to master's education in such country.

Access may also be granted to those possessing a degree from an educational system outside the EHEA, without requiring its homologation, but following verification by the UMH that the degree represents an educational level that is equivalent to the corresponding official Spanish university degree and that it entitles access to graduate education within the issuing country.

Access this way does not mean, under any circumstance, homologation of the degree the interested party holds, or its recognition for anything besides acceptance into a master's program.

Admissions

The profile most suited to helping a student successfully complete this program is that of one holding a university undergraduate degree in the areas of experimental sciences, technical education, psychology, and social, legal, or health sciences.

Professional experience in occupational risk prevention is highly valued.

Admission criteria and student selection

- Suitability of the degree(s) the applicant holds to the master's areas of knowledge (this accounts for 30%).
- Personal academic record (30%).
- Scientific-professional activities suited to the proposed master's curriculum, especially professional experience in occupational risk prevention (30%).
- Other merits (10%).

Master's pre-registration is the first step in the admission process. There are two periods for this, and they are in June and September. In this pre-registration, the student will be asked for their curriculum vitae in order to assess preferential selection criteria, and, if necessary, the Master's Admission Committee will conduct personal interviews of prospective students. This committee will be constituted by the Master's Coordinator, one faculty member responsible for one of the program's subject matters, one student, and a either a technician from the Service of Academic Management or a university staff member from the department this program is a part of.

In the event of students having special educational needs arising from a disability, the appropriate support and counseling services will be made available, and these will assess the need for possible curricular or itinerary adaptations or alternative studies.

Schedule

This master's program is offered via distance learning. Students must attend the internships and take the classroom examinations as follows:

MODULE I. Common Part and Electives
March 2, 2019. Location: Alicante, Barcelona, and Madrid

MODULE II. Specialties
June 15, 2019. Location: Alicante, Barcelona, and Madrid

Extraordinary September Call (Common Part - Electives and Specialties).
September 6, 2019 (morning). Location: Alicante

Extraordinary December call
December 3, 2018 (morning). Location: Alicante

Defense of the Final Master's Project
June 28, 2019 (morning and afternoon). Location: Alicante
June 29, 2019 (morning). Location: Alicante
July 5, 2019 (morning and afternoon). Location: Alicante
July 6, 2018 (morning). Location: Alicante
September 6, 2019 (morning and afternoon). Location: Alicante
September 7, 2019 (morning). Location: Alicante
September 13, 2019 (morning and afternoon). Location: Alicante
September 14, 2019 (morning). Location: Alicante

This schedule is illustrative and may be subject to change.

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