Master's Degree in Quality, Environment, and Safety in Construction Settings
PRESENTATION
Quality, environment, safety, and health are basic business management elements that ensure all regulatory and contract requirements are met adequately. They are also essential efficiency, client satisfaction and loyalty tools.
Objectives
- The overall objective is for the student to develop adequate Quality, Environment and Health and Safety strategies, as well as to lead and coordinate teams comprehensively for the company to meet its goals. It also seeks to improve customer satisfaction, environmental management and workers’ safety and health to enhance their performance. Additionally, the program aims to facilitate the access to knowledge and the development of skills to obtain management system certifications that allow businesses to: participate in project tenders, resume business relationships with former clients, improve efficiency for higher competitiveness, and guarantee project sustainability. This overall objective will be achieved through the following specific objectives: Understand Quality, Environment, Health and Safety contexts, and their business applications to lead improvement strategies. Implement, maintain and certify Quality, Environment and Health and Safety management in the company and thus, achieve objectives systematically. Prepare and apply quality, environment, health, and safety plans the company’s control and improvement activities. To integrate management systems in order to optimize processes and resources.
Methodology
At Educa PHAROS, we use a highly practical methodology focused on the direct application of knowledge in the student’s professional environment, combining theoretical content with real-world case studies, digital tools, and the guidance of a specialized teaching team.
Program
- Introduction
- Risk and opportunities in construction projects
- Project design and development quality control
- Construction project quality planning
- Implementation resource organization
- Specification, methods, and template development
- Procurement control
- Supplier and outsourcing control
- Construction project monitoring and evaluation
- Quality in urban development and urban construction projects
- Quality control in residential construction projects
- Quality control for non-residential social buildings
- Quality control for non-residential industrial buildings
- Quality control in the construction of water treatment facilities
- Dam quality control
- Roads and airport quality control
- Railway quality control
- Quality control in port and offshore construction works
- Quality control in crossing construction works: Bridges, crossings, etc.
- Quality control in crossing construction works: Tunnels
- Introduction to environmental management
- Relation with other standards and management systems
- Environmental management system periods
- Context analysis
- EMS scope: Processes and other requirements
- Leadership, environmental policies and roles
- Planification: Environmental aspects
- Planification: Legal and other requirements
- Planification: Risks (threats and opportunities)
- Planification of environmental actions and objectives
- Support: Resource management
- Support: Management of the documented information
- Support: Environmental communication management
- Operation: Environmental management in productive activities
- Operation: Environmental management plan and its implementation
- Performance evaluation: Follow-up, measurement, analysis and measurement activities
- Performance evaluation: Internal audit
- Performance evaluation: Management review
- Improvement activities: Non-conformities and corrective actions
- External certification
- Environmental legal requirements. Permits and licenses
- The EIA process and its on-site implications
- On-site industrial plants
- The ISO 14001 environmental management system and its application in construction
- On-site environmental monitoring (environmental surveillance)
- Training and awareness-raising for construction workers
- Noise and dust prevention
- Protection of vegetation and wildlife
- Protection of cultural heritage
- Basis of environmental restoration
- Energy efficiency on-site
- Actions in watercourses and sensitive environments. Impact prevention
- On-site water treatment (Sanitary and industrial)
- Prevention of run-off and erosion during construction works
- Soil protection. Maintenance of machinery on-site
- Fuel tanks and other hazardous substances on-site
- On-site waste management
- Management of HW and other waste
- Land and on-site recovery of land and waste
- Environmental emergencies in the execution of works
- Introduction
- Safety conditions in the construction sector
- Risk evaluation: Methodologies
- Site implementation. Hygiene and welfare facilities
- Safety: Risk of falling to the same or different levels
- Safety: work with chemical agents
- Safety: Work with electrical risks
- Safety: Work with explosives
- Safety: Fire hazard
- Safety: Machine and plant work
- Safety: Work in confined spaces. Work in explosive atmospheres. Work in hyperbaric environments
- Safety: Work with portable aids and tools
- Industrial hygiene: Physical and biological risks
- Ergonomic risks
- Psychosocial risks
- Accident investigation
- Occupational health
- Safety management in design
- Safety management on-site
- Safety management in maintenance and operation
- Introduction
- Definition of processes
- Development of the context analysis
- Leadership and commitment. OSH policies
- Roles, responsibilities and authorities in the organization. Consultation and participation of workers
- Planning (I). Actions to address risks and opportunities
- Planning (II). Actions to address risks and opportunities. OSH objectives and planning to achieve OSH objectives
- Support (I). Resources. Competencies. Awareness
- Support (II). Communication
- Support (III). Documented information
- Operation. Planning and operational control (I). Elimination of hazards and reduction of risks for OSH
- Operation. Planning and operational control (II). Change management
- Operation. Planning and operational control (III). Purchases
- Operation. Emergency preparedness and response
- Performance evaluation I. Performance monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation
- Performance evaluation (II). Internal audit
- Performance evaluation (III). Management review
- Improvement (I). Incidents, non-conformities and corrective actions
- Improvement (II). Continual improvement
- External certification
- Introduction to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards
- ISO 9001. Quality Management System
- ISO 14001. Environmental Management System
- ISO 45001. Occupational Health and Safety Management System
- Introduction to Integrated Management Systems
- The Integration of Management Systems
- Benefits of Integrating Management Systems
- Process-based Approach and Risk-based Thinking
- Interested Parties and Their Influence on Integrated Management Systems (IMS)
- The Analysis of the Organisation's Environment
- SWOT Analysis
- The Level and Mode of Integration
- Requirements for System Integration
- The Integration Plan
- The Implementation and Monitoring Process
- Resources Required for the Operation of the IMS
- Personnel Competence and Training
- Awareness and integrated organisational culture
- Documented information: creation, control and maintenance
- Digital Tools for Document Management in the IMS
- Introduction and historical context
- Regulations on sustainability in building
- Sustainability regulations in civil works
- Building materials and the environment
- Life cycle analysis
- Measurement of sustainability in buildings (I)
- Credits associated with the construction company
- Measurement of sustainability in buildings (II)
- BREEAM credits associated with the construction company
- Valuation of the use of sustainable materials in LEED and BREEAM
- Measurement of sustainability in buildings 3: GREEN
- GREEN credits associated with the construction company
- Health and comfort measures in the work environment. WEEL certification
- Energy efficiency measures in buildings. Passivhaus certification
- Sustainability measures in civil works
- Introduction to envision
- Envision credits associated with quality of life and leadership
- Envision credits associated with resource allocation
- Envision credits associated with natural world
- Envision credits associated with climate and resilience
- From sustainability to Corporate Social Responsibility
- The foundation of CSR: Business ethics
- Institutional reference framework at the international level
- How is CSR advancing in Spain
- SDG applied to the business sector
- Stakeholder analysis
- CSR management areas and benefits for business
- Transparency and corporate governance
- CSR and people management
- Business and human rights
- Supply chain
- Environment
- Sustainable finance
- Collaboration with community
- Responsible consumption
- CSR management tools
- Main CSR management systems
- Risk management and CSR
- CSR communication - The keys to a good strategy
- CSR communication tools
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