Course Details

Environmental and Labour Protection Mangement

Academic Year 2025/26

NWA017 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-SIR Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic information about environmental problems and sustainable development with a focus on the impact of construction activities, environmental management and related regulations, ISO 14001 for construction companies.
  • 2. Production of environmental plans for the protection of the environment in connection with the construction technology model of a construction process (continuity and specific solutions for individual selected construction sub-processes), consideration of ecological regulations during the execution of an assigned construction.
  • 3. Health protection against noise and vibrations. Valid legislation.
  • 4. Measurement of external noise from machines, methods of noise evaluation in protected areas outside executed structures, lowering the level of construction site noise.
  • 5. Terminology concerning the rights and duties of participants in the construction process. The OHS management system in the Czech Republic; EU framework directives.
  • 6. Risk prevention and management, safety risks, health risks.
  • 7. The safety coordinator and his/her role in the construction process.
  • 8. The OHS plan in connection with the construction technology model of a structure. Requirements for the production of an OHS plan and its contents; consideration of safety regulations during the execution of an assigned construction process.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the contents of practical classes. Assignment to individual tasks from the area of ecology, construction site noise abatement.
  • 2. Assignment of the production of part of an environmental plan for the protection of the environment in connection with the construction technology model of a structure.
  • 3. Production of part of an environmental plan for the protection of the environment in connection with the construction technology model of a structure – consultation regarding individual assignments.
  • 4. Acquaintance with computer models for noise evaluation, production of an assignment from the area of construction site noise abatement.
  • 5. Processing of safety risks for a stage of the construction process – assignment.
  • 6. Processing of safety risks for a stage of the construction process – consultations.
  • 7. Consultations regarding the individual assignments in the areas of ecology and OHS.
  • 8. Presentation and defence of individual assignments.