Profile:
Safety Engineer
Functions:
Graduates in Safety Engineering are capable of carrying out the identification of risk factors, and to the analysis and evaluation of these in industrial processes and plants as well as in yards and workplaces at large, the identification of prevention measures – namely of organisational and procedural ones – the protection of people, assets and resources, which must integrate with the means, tools, machines and equipment needed to perform any activity, in effective, efficient and economic ways, carrying out the design and management of safety in standard systems with methodological rigour, under a holistic perspective and in synergy with the other professionals implied in the production of goods and services at large.
Their cultural and professional profiles characterised by a coherent and balanced combination of basic and engineering knowledge and skills enabling them to work as safety planners/managers; this profile is based upon sound interdisciplinary groundings consisting of basic industrial engineering subjects, general engineering and specialist subjects related to the methodological risk analysis and assessment techniques, organisational and managerial subjects related to the most adequate safety measures – under a technical and technological perspective – to use in order to obtain high safety levels.
Graduates in “Safety Engineering” are also capable of facing safety issues in intrinsically multidisciplinary contexts, being therefore able to relate both as a member and as a team leader, with other professionals competent and specialist in other disciplines, who are involved, in various capacities, in the production of goods and services.
Safety Engineers possess specific abilities enabling them to promptly fit in a wide range of professional contexts, working as an expert of safety planning and management.
Skills:
- Identification of risk factors:
- Risk analysis and assessment;
- Identification and definition of preventive and protective measures;
- Planning, implementation and management of safety measures (safety planning and management);
- Promotion of a managerial approach to prevention, based on techniques of communication, relation, group management, negotiation in potentially conflictual fields, problem solving, in order to create involvement, motivation and active participation of all the actors of the safety system.
The educational programme is designed in a way to provide all the skills needed to obtain professional certification for the following positions:
- Safety manager, in the design and implementation of works as per Title IV of the Legislative Decree n.81/2008 and subsequent amendments;
- Official in charge of the Prevention and Protection Service provided for by Legislative Decree no. 81/2008 and subsequent amendments, in compliance with the provisions of the agreement of the Permanent Conference for Relations among the State, the Regions and the Autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano of 7 July 2016, n.128/CSR.
Professional opportunities:
The knowledge and skills of graduates in Safety Engineering enable them to work:
- As freelance professionals (after passing the national qualification examination and enrolling in the professional Board) and expert safety consultants;
- Expert of safety management in industrial facilities, installations and infrastructures of various kinds;
- Head of the prevention and protection service (RSPP) of public and private companies and agencies and public administration;
- Safety coordinator in the design and execution phase of works (after having gained the necessary field experience required by Legislative Decree no. 81/2008 and subsequent amendments and partly also acquired during the internship, if carried out in the construction sector);
- Manager of the design of safety, control and monitoring systems of factories, industrial and service companies, yards;
Professional opportunities might be found, therefore:
- In public and private companies;
- In public and private companies/institutions;
- In the public administration;
- In the private practice.
