Gain a basic understanding of the concepts of work and health from different perspectives. Define the concepts of hazard and risk and their influence on working conditions. Understand how occupational health promotion can improve the well-being and health of people in the workplace. Establish the fundamental difference between accidents and incidents, occupational and work-related illnesses, and their connection to a culture of prevention. Promote a genuine culture of occupational risk prevention among future professionals that ensures effective and real compliance with preventive obligations and prohibits merely formal or documentary compliance with such obligations. Understand the concept, legal framework, and evolution of preventive culture, as well as the main models and tools for studying and measuring preventive culture. Identify the institutions and stakeholders involved in prevention in general terms. Learn the basic principles of preventive action, with special emphasis on certain prevention instruments. Analyze preventive instruments applied to Occupational Risk Prevention. Facilitate the integration of a gender perspective into preventive activities.

1. Basic aspects of preventive action: Historical evolution of Occupational Health and Safety. Concepts on which the legal system is based. Occupational Health and Safety Strategy 2023-2027. 2. Occupational health promotion. European Network for Workplace Health Promotion (ENWHP): Healthy workers in healthy companies. 3. Work-related injuries: Occupational accidents from a legal and technical perspective, the wealth of information on occupational accidents, classification and consequences of occupational accidents. 4. Work-related injuries: Occupational diseases and occupational diseases, factors that determine occupational diseases. Other health injuries. 5. Basic aspects of prevention and protection. Principles of preventive action. Prevention and protection from a technical perspective. Preventive disciplines: Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics, Psychosocial, and Occupational Medicine. 6. Agents and institutions involved in occupational risk prevention: Employers, technicians, prevention delegates. National Institute of Safety and Health at Work. Labor Inspection, National Commission for Safety and Health, Foundation for the Prevention of Occupational Risks, European Agency for Safety and Health. 7. Preventive culture: concept, evolution, and legal framework. Measurement models and techniques. The occupational health and safety professional and their role in developing a preventive culture. 8. Preventive instruments applied to prevention: Integration of prevention, consultation and participation, risk assessment and planning of preventive activities, the prevention plan, its implementation and monitoring, response to emergency situations, response to changes, and documentation. 9. Brief mention of the management of occupational risk prevention and the promotion of the integration of the gender perspective in preventive activities.

The teaching methodology will be both theoretical and practical and will develop the fundamental conceptual content that students must acquire. To this end, in addition to recommending the necessary textbooks and a specific biography for the specific subjects, which will be provided at the beginning of the semester, materials prepared by the professor will be provided in advance for greater depth in the topics and better follow-up of the explanations. These work materials will serve to introduce debate and discussion on the topics of greatest interest to both the professor and the students. Practical workshops will be held in working groups, individual case studies, analysis of videos and other documents of interest to students, and class discussions. Regarding the use of generative AI tools, the professor's criteria outlined in the Teaching Guide for the subject must be followed. In-person and online tutoring will be held at the time and place established in the Aula Global space for each subject.