Description and contextualization of the subject

Environment and safety are two aspects that, despite not being considered essential a few decades ago, nor being included in the three basic parameters of all project management (cost, deadline, quality and scope), the truth is that today they are inseparable from proper project management, both because of the demands of modern societies and because of the possible legal consequences, even criminal, that would result from inadequate management of the environmental and safety variables.

Learning outcomes of the subject

The student who satisfactorily completes this course should be able to:

- Identify the need to submit a project to Environmental Impact Assessment, being aware of the corresponding legal and administrative procedure.

- To propose the structure of an Environmental Impact Study with legal validity.

- Identify the Best Available Technologies for a given process.

- Understand the implications of using one or another causal model to understand an accident.

- Evaluate the risks of a process using the Fault Tree methodology.

Ordinary call: orientations and renunciation

The assessment of the subject is carried out continuously throughout the course.

The following factors are taken into account in the grading of the course:

Attendance (30%): Although attendance is not compulsory, it is highly recommended due to the contents developed in the classroom. For this reason, attendance forms part of the calculation of the final grade.

Individual assignments (40%): Students must hand in an assignment designated at the beginning of the course. The work will be handed in by uploading it to egela within the defined deadlines. In order to pass the course, the work must have obtained a grade higher than 5 out of 10.

Exam (30%): As in the certification exams of the professional associations of project management, the exam will be in the form of a multiple-choice test. In order to pass the course, the work must have obtained a grade of more than 4 out of 10.

The grade for the course will be obtained by applying the corresponding weight to each of the factors (attendance, individual work, team work, exam).

If any of the work (individual or team work) has not passed the established cut-off mark, the final mark for the course will be No Show.

If the student decides to waive the Continuous Assessment of this subject, he/she must communicate it in writing before the deadline for the submission of the individual work. This date can be found in the Student Guide available on the eGela platform.

In this case, in order to pass the course, the student will be assessed by means of a written exam which will include all the contents studied throughout the four-month period corresponding to the exam. This assessment will be completed with an oral exam which will take place on the same day as the written exam, by prior appointment for students registered for this exam. In the oral exam, students will be asked about the contents studied in the classroom, as well as about the activities carried out during the corresponding four-month period. In order to pass the course, students must pass both tests.

In the event that health conditions prevent the completion of a teaching activity and/or face-to-face assessment, a non-face-to-face modality will be activated, of which students will be promptly informed (applicable to all exams: ordinary, extraordinary and advance).

Extraordinary call: orientations and renunciation

Those who have to sit the extraordinary call will do so in the same way as they did in the ordinary call. In other words, those who took the continuous assessment will complete the tests (individual work, team work, exam) that they did not pass in the ordinary call.

The grade for the course will be obtained by applying the corresponding weight to each of the factors (attendance, individual work, team work, exam).

If any of the work (individual or team work) has not passed the established cut-off mark, the final mark for the course will be No Show.

If the exam mark is lower than 4.0, the final mark for the course will be that corresponding to the exam mark.

Those who waive the continuous assessment, will be submitted to a written and oral exam as described in the previous section (Ordinary call: orientations and waiver).

Temary

The course is structured in two clearly differentiated modules.

The first module, related to the environment, deals with those methodologies that allow a project to be more environmentally friendly, with special emphasis on what could be considered the most powerful tool to achieve this integration with the environment, such as the Environmental Impact Assessment procedure, which is a legally required procedure in most of the projects that can be assumed to have negative effects on the environment.

Another methodology that will be dealt with are the aspects related to what is known today as DEI (Industrial Emissions Directive) and before known as Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive (IPPC Directive), such as the Best Available Techniques (BAT) and the Emission Limit Values. Finally, the methodology called LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), a methodology that tries to evaluate the effects of a product on the environment from its manufacturing phase to its disposal, will be discussed.

With regard to the safety module, the question of human reliability as a cause of accidents will be discussed first, followed by an analysis of the causal models of accident generation and development. Finally, methodologies for risk assessment will be studied.

Bibliography

Compulsory materials

The course is managed through the egela platform. Here the student will find the transparencies used in class and other help materials. The statements of individual and team assignments will also be found there, and the places where to upload them.

Basic bibliography

Spain BAT Guides for different productive sectors. http://www.prtr-es.es/documentos/documentos-mejores-tecnicas-disponibles

US.Navy, 2002. Navy Occupacional Safety and Health Program Manual. OPNAVINST 5100.23F

Dirección General de Protección Civil, 1994. GUIA TECNICA Métodos Cuantitativos para el Análisis de Riesgos. ISBN 84-8150-042-9

NASA, 2002. Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications. Nasa office of Safety and Mission Assurance, NASA Headquarters, Washintong, DC 20546

In-depth bibliography

Ministerio de Alimentación, Agricultura y Medio Ambiente, 2015. Prescripciones Técnicas para el Diseño de Pasos de Fauna y Vallados Perimetrales (segunda Edición, revisada y corregida).



Cramer, P., 2012. Determining Wildlife use of Wildlife Crossing Structures under Different Scenarios. Utah Department of Transportation Reserach Division

Journals

International Journal of Project Management



Project Management Journal

Links

http://www.prtr-es.es (web del Registro Estatal de Emisiones y Fuentes Contaminantes)