This work presents a web portal for telematic training in work-related risk prevention: noise at work and machine vibrations. Training in Work-related Risk Prevention, especially in the area of Industrial Hygiene, has a practical laboratory component, which is fundamental for a correct preparation of prevention technicians so that they can become acquainted with the field equipment that they have to use in risk evaluation, its configuration, principal parts and handling; everything from its calibration to its application in measuring as a function of the job's conditions, always within the correct methodological application dictated by the national and international norms which regulate these field applications. This signifies important time expenditure for specialist teachers and in field equipment for the users being trained. With virtual laboratories containing the web application developed it is aimed to complement experimental laboratory training, with simulative tools which provide the knowledge and the practical handling of the equipment under the most real conditions possible, thus considerably reducing the number of laboratory hours necessary. It is a matter of having a catalogue of virtual laboratories with a free and easy access, the one in the first stage being specifically that corresponding to noise at work.
The use in the university of new teaching resources by e-learning, is becoming in a common practice, encouraging student participation, and improving academic achievement in learning the subject. An experience in the Safety and Hygiene course of Electronic Engineering degree, at the University of Cordoba -Spain-, has been developed by using different techniques like discussion forums, online quizzes, and a novel and powerful tool: a set of virtual laboratories about noise and vibrations at labour environment which are based on internet. These virtual laboratories promote the learning by different viewpoints like theoretical training, legal knowledge, learning videos, self-training exercises and simulation of use and working of real equipment for field measurement. These virtual laboratories had been evaluated by students who use them, being the results which are reflected in this work, highly satisfactory.258 Redel-
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