Profile:
Safety engineer
Functions:
Graduates in Safety Engineering are able to proceed to the identification of risk factors, to their analysis and evaluation both in processes and in industrial plants and in construction sites and work environments at large, to the identification of prevention measures - of organizational and procedural type in the first place - and protection of people, goods and resources, which must be integrated with the means, tools, machines and equipment necessary for the performance of any activity in an effective, efficient and economical way, proceeding to the design and to the management of safety in standard systems with methodological rigor, in a holistic vision and in synergy with the other professional figures assigned to the production processes of goods and services in general.
They have a cultural and professional profile characterized by a coherent and balanced combination of knowledge and basic and engineering skills typical of a safety planner/manager; this profile is based on a solid interdisciplinary preparation in which the basic disciplines of industrial engineering are combined with the general and specialized engineering techniques related to the analysis and assessment of the risks, organizational and management methodological techniques related to the most suitable safety measures - from a technical and technological point of view - to be adopted in order to pursue high levels of safety.
They are also able to face safety issues in intrinsically multidisciplinary contexts and they are therefore able to interface with other professional figures, competent and specialists in other disciplines, involved in the production processes of goods and services, , both as members and as leaders of a work team.
Safety engineer are therefore equipped with specific skills and competences enabling them to quickly integrate into a variety of differentiated working contexts, working as experts in safety planning and management.
Skills:
The acquired skills are mostly related to :
- the identification of risk factors;
- risk analysis and assessment;
- the identification and elaboration of prevention and protection measures;
- the design, implementation and management of safety measures (safety planning and management);
- the responsibility for the promotion of a management approach to prevention, based on communication, relations, group management, negotiation techniques in potentially conflicting areas, problem solving, in order to determine the involvement, motivation and active participation of all the actors in the safety system.
The educational programme is structured in such a way to provide all the skills needed for obtaining the professional certifications related to the performance of the tasks of:
- Safety coordinator during the design phase and during the execution of the works referred to in Title IV of Legislative Decree no. 81/2008 and subsequent amendments. (Consolidated text on safety at work);
- Responsible for the Prevention and Protection Service established by Legislative Decree n. 81/2008 and subsequent amendments, in compliance with the provisions of the agreement of the Permanent Conference for Relations between the State, the Regions and Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano of 7 July 2016, n.128 / CSR.
Professional opportunities:
The skills and knowledge of graduates in Safety Engineering, enable them to immediately operate as:
- freelance professionals (after passing the state exam and registration on the professional board) and expert security consultant;
- security management expert at various plants, installations and industrial infrastructures;
- responsible for the prevention and protection service of public and private companies and public administration;
- safety coordinator in the design and execution phase of the works (after having acquired the necessary field experience required by Legislative Decree n. 81/2008 and subsequent amendments and partly acquired during the internship, if carried out within the sector);
- manager of the design of security systems, control and monitoring of plants, industrial and service companies, construction sites.
They may find professional opportunities in:
- public and private companies;
- public and private agencies/institutions;
- public administration;
- freelancer.
Finally, although the Degree Course is professionally oriented, graduates in Safety Engineering may access the second level Degree Courses offered by the Polytechnic School of the University of Palermo, following an appropriate curricular integration in compliance with the admission requirements established by the educational regulations of the aforementioned courses.
