15th to 19th Jan 2025 (Wed-Sun)

Course Overview

To provide the student with a sound understanding of the techniques for assessing exposure to hazardous substances in the workplace and with an understanding of how exposure information can be used to assess risk.

Learning Outcomes

On completing this course successfully, the student will be able to:

• Describe the general approach to health risk assessment, including the role of atmospheric monitoring.
• Select appropriate equipment to measure specific airborne contaminants and devise a suitable sampling strategy.
• Present the results in a form useful for health risk assessment purposes to enable management to comply

Course Format

• 5-days course: 9:00 am to 18:00 IST.
• Minimum 45 hours including demonstration sessions, lectures, tutorials, guided reading, overnight questions and additional time for practical review and examination.
• There will be a 60 Multiple Choice Questions MCQ with “open book” ONLINE examination with an allowed time of 150 +30* minutes.

Course Content

1. Risk Assessment
   1. Definitions
   2. The Risk Assessment Process
2. Air Sampling Theory & Practices
   1. Workplace Sampling Strategy
   2. Survey Design
   3. Personal Sampling
   4. Area Sampling
   5. Surface & other Measurement
   6. Confined Spaces
3. Air Sampling Equipment
   1. Sampling Pumps
   2. Sampling Heads & Filters
   3. Direct Reading Instruments
   4. Calibration of Air Sampling Equipment
4. Sampling Analysis
   1. Trace Level Analytical Methods
   2. Gravimetric Analysis
   3. Microscopy
   4. Quality Assurance of Analysis
5. Hygiene Standards
6. Biological Monitoring
7. Calculation, Interpretation & Presentation of Results
   1. Numerical Evaluation
   2. Interpretation
   3. Presentation of Results