040-0608/01 – Psychology of Workplace Safety (PBP)
Gurantor department | Department of Occupational and Process Safety | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | Mgr. Ivana Slováčková | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Ivana Slováčková |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2021/2022 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The subject Psychology of Workplace Safety is aimed at practical application of fundamental knowledge of psychology and psychology of work in health and safety management within companies.
After finishing the course, the students have knowledge about the psychology and the application of this scope in the area of occupational safety; obtain the skills to use the foundations of applied psychology in the context of identification of industrial risks and risk management system in the industrial companies; gain skills aimed to increase awareness about safety and motivate employees to safe behaviour; will raise their competency in the soft skills required for the job of H&S manager; have a awareness of safety culture and its stages from the perspective of employee behavior at the individual levels; are ready to evaluate the assumptions and risks relative to occupational safety and health for workers and apply them in practice; have information on the problems of the human factor in the field of safety and the risk of accident and can apply them in enhancing safety in the enterprise.
Teaching methods
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Summary
The subject deals with applying the findings from psychology in the area of occupational safety. Most of the accidents are caused by the human factor and often they are consequence of unsafe behavior. Therefore, the modern safety focused on creating safe behaviour, safe habits, motivation of employees to compliance with safety rules and improving safety culture. To do this H&S managers need to have a basic knowledge from a range of human conduct. The subject contains information about principles of human behavior, about the model of human behavior and motivation. Term safety culture is explained and different models of safety culture are compared. An important part of subject is the development of soft skills, in particular from the field of communication, including practical training in presentation skills.
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Forma ověření výsledků je kombinovaná – ústní a písemná. Student dále v rámci předmětu zpracovává semestrální práci, kterou prezentuje v rámci cvičení.
E-learning
Other requirements
At least 70 % attendance at seminars. Absence of a maximum of 30% must be excused and the excuse must be accepted by the teacher (the teacher decides on the justification of the excuse). Continuous submission of tasks assigned to the exercises in terms set by the teacher.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. General psychology, work psychology and psychology of workplace safety-introduction to topic
2. Managerial psychology. The typology, the differences between individuals, the use in occupation safety
3. Principles of human action, basic types of behavior, the creation of safe and dangerous routine
4. Model of human behavior, encouraging safe behaviour, group behavior
5. Safety culture
6. Safety leadership
7. Communication in the workplace, communication skills and their development
8. Effective training – how to increase the level of safety by the training
9. Motivation and engagement
10. The worker and his/her working potential, assessment of people in the workplace
11. Solving work problems, conflicts and their solution
12. Stress in the workplace, personality and stress management, classification of the stressors
13. Human errors
Conditions for subject completion
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