Abstract:

Industrial Safety is the discipline in charge of the prevention and limitation of risks, as well as the protection against accidents capable of causing damage to people, goods or the environment, derived from industrial activity, from the use, operation and maintenance of facilities and equipment, as well as from the production, use or consumption of industrial products. Its practical application implies an adequate design, execution, maintenance and control of the installations and is therefore closely related to Engineering.

Despite the importance of training in industrial safety, its presence in Spanish universities has been increasing over the years in a progressive and heterogeneous manner. University degrees, and specifically those with an engineering focus, have been incorporating training in safety and occupational risk prevention in recent years. However, to date, training in industrial safety is scarce and is mostly given in a transversal way, which makes it difficult to approach the contents in a systematic way.

This paper presents the case of the subject Industrial Processes of Chemical Engineering, a core subject in the fourth year of the Chemical Engineering degree at the UPV. In it, safety learning has been carried out since 2015-2016 using "safety shares" that integrate learning based on cooperative work and case analysis. The evaluation of the work done is done through a rubric completed by two randomly selected students and the lecturer.

This paper will explain the development of the activity, analyze the degree of involvement of the students, show the rubric used for the evaluation, and analyze the results derived from the educational innovation as well as the comparison of the average grades provided by the students and the professor in the last four academic years. The objective is to validate the methodology and obtain lessons learned that will allow the use of safety shares tool for teaching safety in other engineering disciplines.

Keywords:

Safety, safety shares, chemical engineering, co-evaluation.