26th Feb to 02nd March, 2025 (Wed-Sun)

Course Overview

The course introduces students to the health hazards of substances that are used at work. It describes where hazardous substances are commonly used in industry and what their harmful effect can be. It also explains the underpinning principles of physiology, toxicology, and epidemiology.

Learning Outcomes

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

• Provide definition of commonly used toxicological terms.
• Describe the main routes by which hazardous substance can enter the body, and the factor which influence their absorption, distribution, storage and elimination.
• Describe the main source of information on hazardous substances and processes.
• Recognize hazardous substances in the workplace.
• Describe the main features of the principal target organs affected by hazardous substance at work, and the factors which influence the degree of harm.
• Describe the main feature of exposure for hazardous substances commonly encountered in the workplace.
• Describe the health effect of some common hazardous substances.
• Undertake basic interpretation of the results from epidemiological studies.

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. Introduction of Toxicology
2. Type of Health Effects
3. Basic Human Biology and Target Organs
4. Basic Toxicokinetics
5. Dose Response Curves and Toxicity Testing
6. Epidemiology
7. Overview of Health Effects
8. Common Industrial Processes
9. Specific Industry Profiles
10. Regulatory Consideration
11. Biological hazards