Workplace Hygiene and Emergency First Aid
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
Acquire the knowledge of occupational hygiene, methods, tools and practices aimed at maintaining and promoting health and preventing illnesses and accidents in the workplace. Acquire the ability to identify situations when specific competences are required;
Acquire the knowledge related to radiation protection;
Know the main models of work organization and their effects on workers' health;
Acquire the ability to intervene, in the immediacy of the event, in emergency situations, implementing, as far as it is concerned, the necessary first aid measures, in order to guarantee survival and the best assistance allowed;
Know the main methods of intervention in catastrophe and natural disasters
Acquire the knowledge related to radiation protection;
Know the main models of work organization and their effects on workers' health;
Acquire the ability to intervene, in the immediacy of the event, in emergency situations, implementing, as far as it is concerned, the necessary first aid measures, in order to guarantee survival and the best assistance allowed;
Know the main methods of intervention in catastrophe and natural disasters
Expected learning outcomes
Identify and assess occupational risk factors;
Know the methods for conducting a survey on occupational accidents;
Collaborate with other professional figures in facing emergency situations
Know the methods for conducting a survey on occupational accidents;
Collaborate with other professional figures in facing emergency situations
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Prerequisites for admission
There are no prerequisites
Assessment methods and Criteria
Multiple choice test with also open questions
All the exams take place on the same day
All the exams take place on the same day
Occupational medicine
Course syllabus
Introduction to occupational medicine: historical notes and tools for assessing the association between environmental factors and possible health effects
Occupational cancers
Risk assessment in the workplace
Environmental and biological monitoring
Occupational accidents: trends and evaluation
Smoking cessation programs: protocols and efficacy
Occupational cancers
Risk assessment in the workplace
Environmental and biological monitoring
Occupational accidents: trends and evaluation
Smoking cessation programs: protocols and efficacy
Teaching methods
Lectures
Teaching Resources
Medicina del lavoro, a cura di Pier Alberto Bertazzi. Ed Cortina 2013
Diagnostic imaging
Course syllabus
Basic physics of radiations
Radiation biology and radiation protection
Principles of radiographic image formation and radiology
Computed tomography
Ultrasonography
Magnetic resonance
Nuclear medicine
Radiation therapy
Law 101/20202 about radiation protection for health workers and patients
Ministerial Decree 14 January 2021 on the determination of safety and use standards for magnetic resonance equipment
Radiation biology and radiation protection
Principles of radiographic image formation and radiology
Computed tomography
Ultrasonography
Magnetic resonance
Nuclear medicine
Radiation therapy
Law 101/20202 about radiation protection for health workers and patients
Ministerial Decree 14 January 2021 on the determination of safety and use standards for magnetic resonance equipment
Teaching methods
Frontal Lessons
Teaching Resources
Slides used during lessons
General sociology
Course syllabus
Definition of gender
Health and reproductive rights: definitions and approaches
Social and gender inequalities
health and gender medicine
Health and reproductive rights: definitions and approaches
Social and gender inequalities
health and gender medicine
Teaching methods
Frontal Lessons, practical session
Teaching Resources
- Lombardi L. (2005), Società, culture e differenze di genere, FrancoAngeli, Milano, pp. 21-34; 41-49.
- Sannella A, Biancheri R., Lombardi L. (2022), Cap 4. Salute, in Corbisiero F., Nocenzi M. (a cura di), Manuale di educazione al genere e alla sessualità, UTET-De Agostini, Novara.
- Sannella A, Biancheri R., Lombardi L. (2022), Cap 4. Salute, in Corbisiero F., Nocenzi M. (a cura di), Manuale di educazione al genere e alla sessualità, UTET-De Agostini, Novara.
Applied medical techniques
Course syllabus
1° day
-what occupational medicine and industrial hygiene take care of
-risk and danger, exposure and harm(danno fisico)/damage(danno generale)
-exercises
2° day
-legislation on hygiene and job safety
- PSAL services point of view
-companies (SPP) point of view
3° day
-major work risks
-etiology of work related diseases
-professional diseases and accidents
4° day
-the most frequent MP today
-emerging MPs
-investigations for occupational disease
-group exercise
5° day
-surveillance systems of work related diseases
-healt visitor in PSAL services and companies
-what occupational medicine and industrial hygiene take care of
-risk and danger, exposure and harm(danno fisico)/damage(danno generale)
-exercises
2° day
-legislation on hygiene and job safety
- PSAL services point of view
-companies (SPP) point of view
3° day
-major work risks
-etiology of work related diseases
-professional diseases and accidents
4° day
-the most frequent MP today
-emerging MPs
-investigations for occupational disease
-group exercise
5° day
-surveillance systems of work related diseases
-healt visitor in PSAL services and companies
Teaching methods
Frontal Lessons, practical sessions
Teaching Resources
Laws
Anaesthesiology
Course syllabus
The critically ill subject
Respiratory insufficiency
Neurological deficits
Coronary syndromes
Shock
Cardial Life Support
Principles of anesthesia
Oran donation and transplantation
Respiratory insufficiency
Neurological deficits
Coronary syndromes
Shock
Cardial Life Support
Principles of anesthesia
Oran donation and transplantation
Teaching methods
Frontal Lessons
Teaching Resources
Slides used during lessons
Nursing sciences: general, clinical and paediatric
Course syllabus
Emergency System in the National and Regional Health Service
emergency and mass casualty incidents definition
112 emergency number
· Characteristics of first aid
· Early alerting emergency services
· Safety of the healthcare provider and accident area
· Recovery position
· Signs of ABC problems
· Characteristics and symptoms of shock
· Foreign body airway obstruction (unblocking techniques)
· First aid techniques in case of:
o Haemorrhage
o Electrical injuries
o Burns
o hypoglycaemia, hyperglycaemia
o Poisonings
o Seizures
o Fractures
o Alcohol intoxication
o Frostbite
o Frozen solid
o inconsolable crying of the child
o Allergic reaction
o Drug withdrawal crisis
Emergency in catastrophe
emergency and mass casualty incidents definition
112 emergency number
· Characteristics of first aid
· Early alerting emergency services
· Safety of the healthcare provider and accident area
· Recovery position
· Signs of ABC problems
· Characteristics and symptoms of shock
· Foreign body airway obstruction (unblocking techniques)
· First aid techniques in case of:
o Haemorrhage
o Electrical injuries
o Burns
o hypoglycaemia, hyperglycaemia
o Poisonings
o Seizures
o Fractures
o Alcohol intoxication
o Frostbite
o Frozen solid
o inconsolable crying of the child
o Allergic reaction
o Drug withdrawal crisis
Emergency in catastrophe
Teaching methods
Frontal Lessons, practical sessions
Teaching Resources
slides and materials used during lectures
Anaesthesiology
MED/41 - ANAESTHESIOLOGY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Applied medical techniques
MED/50 - APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY - University credits: 2
Lessons: 20 hours
Diagnostic imaging
MED/36 - IMAGING AND RADIOTHERAPY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Professor:
Sconfienza Luca Maria
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Sconfienza Luca Maria
General sociology
SPS/07 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Nursing sciences: general, clinical and paediatric
MED/45 - NURSING - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Occupational medicine
MED/44 - OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE - University credits: 1
Lessons: 10 hours
Professor:
Carugno Michele
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Carugno MicheleProfessor(s)
Reception:
Upon email contact
IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio, floor 0