Checking date: 24/04/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Health and safety legislation
(15674)
Master in Work Related Risk Prevention (Plan: 247 - Estudio: 259)
EPD


Coordinating teacher: MUÑOZ RUIZ, ANA BELEN

Department assigned to the subject: Social and Private International Law Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:




Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
None.
Objectives
-Understanding of occupational hazard prevention legislation (national, European and international). -Ability to locate and interpret the matter's most relevant legal criteria. -Skills to identify the regulated preventive content in company collective agreements and good business practises regarding occupational health and safety. -Ability to identify the people obligated by preventive legislation in addition to the people protected by said legislation. -Approximate understanding of the organisation of prevention in the company. -Ability to delimit the scope and content of the safety deficit. Ability to differentiate between the generic safety obligation and instrumental obligations. -Understanding of the legal aspects for each and every one of the obligations established by the law and its guidelines. -In-depth knowledge of the coordination of business activities and the obligations of each and every person affected by the simultaneity of workers in several companies. -Basic knowledge of representation organisations for employees at the company: competences, faculties and duties. -Ability to identify the particular prevention system applicable to special sectors (civil servants, freelance workers, cooperatives).
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
Brief description of contents 1. Occupational health and safety policies. European, national and regional strategies in the scope of hazard prevention. 2. The legal system for occupational hazard prevention. The concept of preventive legislation. National, international and European legislation. Technical legislation. 3. Collective bargaining in preventive matters: possibilities, levels and content. Analysis of relevant conventional experiences. 4. The subjective scope of hazard prevention: protected groups. Hazard prevention for civil servants and special employees. Hazard prevention in freelance work. 5. Company obligations regarding hazard prevention: general obligations, determination of their scope. Analysis focussed on instrumental obligations. 6. Integrated safety. Risk assessment and preventive planning. 7. Company obligations in relation to particular groups: particularly vulnerable groups, minors, pregnant women, temporary workers and companies offering temporary employment. 8. Monitoring of health. 9. Technical advice in preventive matters: its justification. Preventive organisation in the company: designated employees and individual and joint prevention services. External prevention services: prevention organisations. Preventive resources. 10. Preventive obligations in the event of a concurrence of activities. Contractors and subcontractors. The special regulation of the construction sector. 11. The obligations of employees in preventive matters. 12. The participation of employees in preventive matters. Prevention delegates and Occupational Health and Safety Committees. Competences, faculties and duties. 13. Hazard prevention in the civil service. General and individual systems for certain civil service workers: the military and the police. Hazard prevention in local authorities. 14. The auditing of prevention systems. 15. The connection between hazard prevention and the Social Security system: financing, contributions and public benefits. Possible public benefits derived from complementary systems.
Learning activities and methodology
The teaching methodology will be theorical and practical. The professor will be available to solve questions for the timetable.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • MERCADER UGUINA, J.R./MUÑOZ RUIZ, A,B.. ROBOTICS AND HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SWARM INTELLIGENCE AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION, 8 (1), pp.1-7. 2019 https://e-archivo.uc3m.es/handle/10016/34839
  • MUÑOZ RUIZ, A.B.. SAFETY AT WORK: A TROJAN HORSE FOR NEW MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES?. HESAMAG (ETUI) Vol. 25 https://etui.org/sites/default/files/2022-05/HesaMag_25_Workers%20on%20the%20route_1.pdf. 2022

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.