Especialización en Higiene y Seguridad en el Trabajo

OBJECTIVES:

Train human resources to become highly qualified in scientific and technical manpower to meet the needs that arise in the local, regional and national level in relation to the issues of health and safety at work, applying the tools of engineering to optimize the technological, natural and human factors, according to the legal provisions that require employers to organize and implement programs for occupational health and safety that have a permanent status in a work place. This includes the acquisition of knowledge, methodologies of action and specific rules on Health and Safety at Work and the prevention and protection of labor issues and consequences, guarantee protection in all establishments, managing, developing and implementing systems, equipment and devices in order to prevent accidents and occupational diseases in every kind of entities, business premises, managing,developing and implementing systems, equipment and tools in order to avoid the accidents and professional illnesses.

Specific objectives of the course are the following:

• Train students in order to work in interdisciplinary teams and intersectional issues in service of industry in general, while benefitting the area of influence of the activity of professionals connected with the theme of hygiene and labor security.
• Promote elements of training in hygiene and security of labor. Management of laws and rules, giving to the student the full knowledge of his legal responsibilities (civilian and constitutional) for not fulfilling the Hygiene and Security norms of workplace.
• Administer students with a solid formation in character and scientific –technological preparation, expanding knowledge acquired at the postgraduate level, in the areas of Hygiene and Labor Security, promoting at the same time the updated techniques and technology that will permit them to the improvement of environment and the labor conditions contributing to the optimization of all production activities, and therefore the socio-economic development of the region.
• Offer to the graduate student the needed tools that would permit him to educate every working force team member, with all that is related, in order to respond with secured criteria and face the demands of daily work in a variety of contexts in labor areas.