Syllabus:

Syllabus:

– General Objectives:
Give to the students, in the context of their future professional activities, technical skills necessary to conduct the identification and assessment of occupational risks and to lead the risk management process in companies and public administration entities.

Specific Objectives:
1-Define and understand the concepts on safety and health at work;
2- Know teh legislation about safety and health at work;
3- Know the professional risks;
4- Be able to identify and analyze the hazards and assess the occupational risks, as a factor in promoting quality of life and work;
5- Know and apply professional risk assessment methodologies;
6- Know conceive, plan and develop prevention and protection measures, applicable to organizations.

CONTENTS:

1. Current legal framework about safety and health at work;
2. Fundamental concepts for managing OSH risks;
3. Assessment of occupational risks;
4. Methodologies of occupational risks assessment;
5. Methodologies and techniques of occupational risks control.

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ENERAL:
To know the main legislation applicable to the capture and disposal of water, production, transportation and disposal of solid waste, discharge of air pollutants and noise production with sensitive receivers.
To adjust the main legal requirements to the activity of an organization.
SPECIFIC:
To identify water uses subject to licensing.
To know the main rules to be followed in the management of solid waste, assign the LER codes to each residue and the rules concerning its road transport and final disposal.
To identify the stationary sources of air pollutant emissions, to know how to interpret the pollutant emission limit values and set the frequency of self-control.
To know the general regulation of the noise and to find out how an assessment of environmental noise should be performed.
To know how to apply the legal requirements and applicable regulations for water, solid waste, air emissions and environmental noise to the daily activity of an organization.

Water Management: Water pollution and use of water resources. Water quality system intended for human consumption. Water capture and rejection.
Solid Waste Management: planning of waste management.
Prevention and control of pollutant emissions into the atmosphere.
Environmental noise: General regulation of noise. Environmental noise assessment methodology.

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Upon successful completion of this course, learners should be able to plan, conduct and report quality management systems (ISO 9001) audits. Namely:
1. Plan management system audits according to audit objectives, scope and criteria
2. Prepare audit documentation
3. Conduct audit opening meetings
4. Lead audit teams
5. Collect evidences through analyses of documents, staff interviews and observation of activities
6. Validate the information collected through triangulation methods
7. Assure the adequacy and sufficiency of the audit evidences collected to generate audit findings and conclusions
8. Prepare audit reports
9. Conduct audit closing meetings

CONTENTS:

1. Audit concepts, terminology and principles
• Scope
• Objective
• Criteria
• Findings (non-conformity, risk, conformity, opportunity for improvement, good-practice)
• Conclusions
2. Audit methods, tools and good practices
• Supporting documentation (plans, checklists, reports)
• Evidence collection (interviews, documental analyses, tasks’ observations)
• Samples, trails and triangulation
• Allocation, categorization and clear formulation of Findings
• Communication of findings and conclusions
3. Audit teams, its roles and responsibilities
• Lead Auditor
• Auditor
• Experts
• Observers
4. Training audit (in real or simulated context) to a quality management system (ISO 9001)
• Planning
• Conducting
• Reporting

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OBJECTIVES:

1. Understand the quality infrastructure in the world;
2. Understand the differences between the three Quality subsystems: Standardization, Accreditation and Metrology;
3. Know the rules of standardization and the mechanisms for creating a normative document;
4. Know the evolution of the concept of quality over time;
5. Understand the principles of quality management, the process management and the PDCA cycle;
6. Develop risk-based thinking and manage risk within a quality management system;
7. Understand and properly use quality management terminology and vocabulary;
8. Understand and know how to apply in context the requirements of ISO 9001;
9. Know how to manage monitoring and measuring equipment;
10. Understand the importance of ISO 9004 in managing the sustained success of an organization.

CONTENTS:

Module 1. The Quality Infrastructure in the World
1.1 Standardization, Accreditation and Metrology
1.2 National, regional and international bodies
1.3 Rules of Standardization
1.4 How to make a normative document?
Module 2. Fundamentals of Quality Management
2.1 Evolution of the concept of Quality over time
2.2 Principles of Quality Management
2.3 Process Management and PDCA Cycle
2.4 Risk Based Thinking
2.5 Management Terminology and Vocabulary
Module 3. ISO 9001 and its practical application
3.1 ISO 9001 Requirements
3.2 Applied Metrology
3.3 ISO 9004 and the sustained success of organizations

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Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
1. To know the basic concepts of management;
2. To characterize and identify the internal environment of organisations;
3. To characterize and identify the external environment of organisations;
4. To systematize change in organizations

CONTENTS:

Part I – Management evolution
Part II – Basic concepts
Part III – Organisation: internal environment Part IV – Organisational alignment
Part V – Value Chain
Part VI – Organisation: external environment

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After concluding this Curricular Unit, the student should be able to:
1. Understand the general concepts of food safety: contaminations, hazards and benefits of food safety
2. Know the main rules of hygiene and the food safety good practices and elaborate CBP
3. Know and apply the pre-requirements and principles of HACCP
4. Implement HACCP and Codex Alimentarius
5. Know and apply the Kaizen tools in food safety; 5S and Visual Management;
6. Know the BRC Food, IFS, FSSC 22000 standards, origin, advantages and requirements
7. Understand the structure of the Food Safety Management according to ISO 22000:2018
8. Build capacity for implementation / improvement of a System of Food Safety Management
9. Make the legal diagnostic according to sector of activity
10. Develop checklists to identify requirements of ISO ISO 22000:2018

CONTENTS:

1. General concepts of Food Safety
2. HACCP and Codex Alimentarius
3. Introduction to IFS Food, BRC and FSSC 22000 standards
4. Implementation/Integration of Food Safety Management Systems ISO 22000:2018

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The general objectives of this curricular unit are:
1 – Knowledge of the requirements for Information Security Management Systems (ISO 27001);
2 – Knowledge of the Code of Practice for the management of Information Security (ISO 27002);
3- Knowledge of the control objectives for the safeguard of Information Security;
4 – Definition of an Information Security Policy.

More specifically, after concluding this curricular unit, the student should be able to:
– Identify threats to computer security and information security;
– Know standards and good practices relevant in the management of the Information Security;
– Prepare an Information Security Policy.

Theoretical classes:
1 – Introduction and fundamentals
2 – Code of Practice for the management of the Information Security
2.1 – Security Policy
2.2 – Organization of Information Security
2.3 – Asset Management
2.4 – Human Resources Security
2.5 – Physical and Environmental Security
2.6 – Communication and Operations Management
2.7 – Access Control
2.8 – Information Systems Acquisition, Development and Maintenance
2.9 – Information Security Incident Management
2.10 – Business Continuity Management
2.11 – Compliance
3 – Information Security Policy
4 – Information Security Management Systems (ISO 27001)
4.1 – Requirements
4.2 – Controls
4.3 – Implementation Process

Practical classes:
1 – Solving of practical assignments by applying the concepts transmitted in the theoretical classes.

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OBJECTIVES:

1 – Examine and criticize themes present in the current theoretical and empirical debate on management systems in organizations
2 – Develop a research program in management systems suggesting promising and viable research clues
3 – Prepare, present and discuss a preliminary report of the final Master’s thesis on a relevant topic in management systems

CONTENTS:

2 – Stages for the elaboration of a dissertation/project/internship;
2.1 – Formulate the research topic
2.2 – Literature review
2.3 – Research methodologies: methods and techniques
3 – Preparation and discussion of the preliminary report of the final Master’s thesis

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OBJECTIVES:

1. Increase scientific and applied knowledge, through contact with relevant organizations and personalities in the area of management systems;
2. Develop the ability to generate ideas;
3. Systematize methods of presentation, organization, writing and synthesis of final master’s work reports;
4. Write a scientific article;
5. Review scientific articles.

CONTENTS:

There is no specific program for this course. Throughout the semester will be held some seminars / workshops focusing on issues of student work.