Building a classroom aware of the social and economic impact of occupational safety and health.

Prevention Classroom Space

Integrating the awareness of the social and economic impact of occupational safety and health into the learning process in the university classroom.

Objectives

From the perspective of Service Objectives

The objective is to make university students receptive and thus become a voice for the importance of occupational safety and health, and to have them leave the university with a culture of prevention and the understanding of how important it is to be safe and ensure that the people around them are safe in the work environment.

“From the perspective of Learning Objectives

The objective is to get university students to learn, indirectly, the concept and importance of occupational safety and health while they are also learning the specific competencies of their respective degrees.

Activities

“To achieve the proposed objectives, a series of activities will be carried out, both inside and outside the classroom, allowing students to understand the impact of prevention in the area of Occupational Safety and Health.

Inside the Classroom
- In the subject Software Development Project Management within the degree in Computer Engineering, students will deploy the knowledge and skills they acquire in digital transformation project development in a practical case focused on Occupational Safety and Health ( $\text{OSH}$ ). Thus, in the theoretical part of the subject, they acquire the subject’s theoretical knowledge, and in the practical part, they apply it to the Occupational Safety and Health area to solve a current $\text{OSH}$ problem, which results in this area being integrated into their lives indirectly.
- In the subject Programming for Business within the degree in Management and Technology, the project will focus on having students learn programming concepts in the classroom. Then, when practicing what they’ve learned, they will use specific data on workplace accidents, or related data. This way, they can practice with the data, learn concepts specific to the area, become receptive to its importance for all working people, and adopt a culture of prevention in their lives.
Outside the Classroom
- This activity will be open to the entire university community, and we propose it to be held between the months of January and February 2026. It will consist of a half-day event (morning or afternoon) that will include a series of practical presentations by ASEPEYO (a Mutual Insurance Collaborator with Social Security in Spain), QUIRONPREVENCION (a leading $\text{OSH}$ Prevention Service), and the IRSST (Regional Institute for Safety and Health at Work, Madrid) on the impact of Occupational Safety and Health and existing tools to be included as a foundation for the culture of prevention among university students, as future workers.
- This activity will be open to the entire university community and is held annually in May; this year it would take place in May 2026. It will consist of a morning event attended by various agents involved in the occupational safety and health of workers (such as Internal Prevention Services ( $\text{SPPs}$ ), External Prevention Services ( $\text{SPAs}$ ), etc.). The projects carried out by the students themselves will be presented, and the Creativity for Digital Transformation in Occupational Safety and Health 2026 awards will also be presented.

Roadmap

September – December (1st Semester)

Development of digital solutions by students in the Computer Engineering degree at the School of Engineering, supporting the identification and prevention of musculoskeletal disorders.

The proposal given to the students is the same as the one for the C4DX Challenge 2026, so they can adapt the project from the Software Project Management course to the C4DX Challenge 2026.

For more information about the C4DX Challenge 2026:https://catedrairsst.uc3m.es/challenge-c4dx-2026/
December 12 – Winter School

Winter School: Open to the university community. Experiential session with technological tools supporting occupational safety and health, led by Asepeyo.
January – June (2º Semester)

Data analysis by students in the Management and Technology degree at the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences on musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace of the Community of Madrid and their economic impact.
June 1 – Workshop C4DX in OHS2026

Workshop C4DX in OHS2026: Open to the university community. Creativity for digital transformation in the identification and mitigation of risks leading to musculoskeletal disorders.

Participants

Medina Domínguez, Fuensanta – Computer Science Department
Sánchez Segura María Isabel – Computer Science Department
Carabaña Lacasta Beatriz – Occupational Risk Prevention Service of the UC3M
Moreno de la Presa María del Pilar – Occupational Risk Prevention Service of the UC3M
Sánchez Herranz Sergio – Computer Science Department
Fernández Galán Adrián – Computer Science Department