Course Description
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles of occupational hygiene. It is designed to equip students with the core knowledge necessary to protect worker health and well-being. The curriculum covers the critical discipline of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling health hazards in a work environment. Students will learn about the various types of hazards, including chemical, physical, and biological agents, as well as ergonomic and psychosocial factors. The course emphasizes a preventative approach to minimizing exposure and promoting good practices. Overall, the manual details the role of an occupational hygienist in a workplace.
Course Objectives
The main objective of this course is to teach the practices and principles of occupational hygiene, which focus on anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling health hazards in the workplace. Students will learn to recognize potential hazards posed by various agents, such as gases, vapours, noise, and bacteria. The curriculum also aims to teach the evaluation of worker exposure to these hazards through qualitative assessments and quantitative exposure measurement surveys. A key objective is the selection and development of appropriate control measures, including engineering controls like local exhaust ventilation and administrative controls like job rotation. Additionally, the course prepares students to investigate the causes of work-related illness and assist with occupational health activities like health surveillance and biological monitoring.
Course Outline
The course, as outlined in the manual’s table of contents, covers a broad range of topics essential to occupational hygiene. It begins with an introduction to the history of the field and the importance of its principles. Subsequent sections delve into the effects of hazards on the human body, covering human physiology and industrial diseases, as well as the fundamentals of toxicology. The curriculum then explores specific hazardous substances and processes, followed by methods for assessing health risks and measuring airborne contaminants. The course also provides extensive coverage of ventilation, biological hazards, noise, vibration, and the thermal environment. Finally, it concludes with sections on lighting, radiation, ergonomics, and work-related stress, preparing students for careers in occupational hygiene.
Learning Objectives
On completing this examination successfully, students will have a basic understanding of:
- the value of occupational hygiene and the role of the occupational hygienist;
- the range of hazards (physical and chemical) in the workplace;
- hazard recognition techniques;
- sources and potential routes of exposure;
- hazard evaluation, exposure assessment and measurement processes;
- methods of controlling exposure;
- the management of occupational hygiene programmes.
Pre-requirements
Familiarity with workplace safety practices.
Who is it for?
- Health and safety professionals
- Occupational health specialists including physicians and nurses
- People wanting to enter the field of occupational hygiene
- Specialists in subjects such as acoustics, ergonomics, human factors, occupational psychology, work organisation, biosafety, acoustics, engineering, or analytical chemistry who want a broader appreciation of how their role interfaces with other professions over health issues in the workplace.
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Curriculum
- 18 Sections
- 69 Lessons
- 36 Hours
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Occupational HygieneOccupational Hygiene is the discipline of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and controlling health hazards in the working environment with the objective of protecting worker health and well-being and safeguarding the community at large. It uses a preventative approach by minimizing exposure to workplace hazards.6
- Chapter 2: Human Anatomy4
- Chapter 3: Fundamentals of ToxicologyToxicology is the science that studies the harmful or adverse effects of chemical, physical, or biological agents on living organisms, including humans. It identifies and quantifies potentially noxious agents in our environment and evaluates the risks they pose, focusing on how substances enter the body, their mechanism of action, metabolism, and the resulting health impacts. This multidisciplinary field helps determine safe exposure limits for substances across various sectors, including medicine, agriculture, and environmental control.6
- Chapter 4: Hazardous Substances Processes5
- Chapter 5: Health Risk Assessment6
- Chapter 6: Air Sampling8
- 6.1General Principals of Air Sampling9 Minutes
- 6.2Types of Sampling18 Minutes
- 6.3Sampling Equipment7 Minutes
- 6.4elements of a sampling system22 Minutes
- 6.5Sampling of gases and vapours11 Minutes
- 6.6Sampling Methodology11 Minutes
- 6.7Control measure evaluation12 Minutes
- 6.8OH-Air-Sampling60 Minutes40 Questions
- Chapter 7: Exposure Limit5
- Chapter 8: Biological Monitoring3
- Chapter 9: Risk Control2
- Chapter 10: Ventilation5
- Chapter 11: Biological Hazard5
- Chapter 12: Noise7
- Chapter 13: Vibration3
- Chapter 14: Thermal Stress6
- Chapter 15: Radiation5
- Chapter 16: Ergonomics5
- Chapter 17: Work Related Stress3
- Chapter 18: Safety Culture and Human Behavior3
Target audiences
- Occupational safety officers and managers.
- Supervisors and team leaders.
- Employees working in high-risk environments.
- Anyone responsible for compliance with occupational health and safety standards.