16. Presupposition Skills Development

The skills that should be developed by the students through the development of this project are illustrated in the following image:

Essentially, it is intended that students can acquire knowledge from the different areas involved but furthermore that they can establish a relationship between the concepts and the subjects of all the curricular units.

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Cross Skills

Working in a team and in the context of a project can constitute a differentiated view and a unique opportunity for personal growth. Besides the capacity to develop singular skills, in this kind of learning approach, it is possible to develop transversal skills through the multidisciplinary perspective – one of the most important goals obtained from this educational methodology. The goals of this project centred on the maturing of consecutive transversal skills:

Competencies of Project Management:

1. Capacity of research;
2. Capacity of decision;
3. Capacity of the organization;
4. Time management.

Competencies of Personal Development:

1. Creativity;
2. Originality;
3. Critical Spirit;
4. Self-evaluation; 
5. Self-regulation.

Competencies of teamwork:

1. Autonomy;
2. Initiative;
3. Responsibility;
4. Leadership;
5. Problem-solver;
6. Interpersonal relationship;
7. Motivation;
8. Conflict Management.

Competencies of Communication:

1. Written communication;
2. Oral communication;
3. Public presentation capacity. 

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Skills for OSH

For this project, students may be capable of:

• Work as a team, using simple tools (technological or rudimentary) applying the concepts of leadership, evaluating each other’s works, expressing a singular opinion, and constructing posteriorly a written and oral solid work;
• Be capable of fomenting the effective and efficient development of an industrial system or a service where the techniques and methodologies are all included through a multidisciplinary approach. 

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Specific Skills of each curricular discipline

Ergonomics II

• Understand work physiology and the concepts of workload and its quantification;
• Comprehend the applied biomechanics and the consequent work posture, being able to Assessment the consequent posture adopt;
• Risk assessment and identification associated with performing manual load handling activities, (ergonomic aspects and considerations related to the physical work environment);
• Lighting and Visual Ergonomics.

Hygiene II

• Identify the different fields included in Occupational Hygiene;
• Identify Ionising radiation (quantification, effects, prevention, and control);
• Identify and categorize chemical contaminants (quantification, effects, prevention, and control);
• Identify Biological risks (classification, prevention, and control);
• Apply, in a practical situation, the Techniques of Sampling and Laboratory Analysis;
• Enunciate applicable Legislation.

Safety II

• Analyse the Statistics Index and Accident Rates;
• Identify the systems and their needs related to systems of security and safety at work and their own operationalization;
• Implement Emergency Planning and Risk Assessment methods;
• Implement Machine Safety Procedures; 
• Identify the need for Personal Protection Equipment.

Analysis and Study of Work

• Study of Work – concept and their importance;
• Application of techniques related to the study of the work: methods study and measure of the work;
• Be aware of the Importance of the human factor in the study of the Work;
• Standard Time (ST)- importance and application on the laboral tasks; 
• Be able to manipulate distinct techniques of measuring the work;
• Judge the laboral activity and apply the normalization times concept;
• Application of 2 techniques to measure the work: timing and sampling systems;
• Work Analyses: Be able to distinguish and separate the concept of task and activity. 

Methods and Techniques of Analysis in Ergonomics

• Conception of workstation: evaluation and adaptation of the knowledge to the better conception of the workstation;
• Evaluation and Characterization of the risk associated with manual manipulation activities and the repetitive nature related to them;
• Ergonomics Analysis of the Workstation: methodologies and objectives applied to dissimilar workstations and application of them in an industrial context;   
• Principal approaches in ergonomic interventions;
• Application in the “design” of the system and examples of Ergonomic context application.

Statistic applied to OSH

In this discipline is important in a primordial phase that students can apply the subjects using the traditional approach (calculating manually) and then be able to do the analysis in statistic software (ex.:SPSS).

• Basic concepts and their application on statistics basic interaction (Population, Sample, type of data and scale of measurements);
• Descriptive Statistic;
• Confidence Intervals;
• Hypothesis Test;
• Statistical analyses of categorical data;
• Non-parametric inference;
• Correlation and Regression.