Trainer Sustainable EHS LLP Start Date 21 Dec 2024
Location Live Online
ONLINE
Language English
Contact training@sustainableehs.com Places 15

21st to 27th Dec 2024

Course Overview

Aims

  • To provide a practical understanding of occupational hygiene for people who need to manage or advise on workplace health issues
  • To provide a foundation from which to undertake more in-depth study in individual occupational hygiene subjects
  • To inform and enthuse students about the contribution of occupational hygiene to worker health

You will learn to

  • Value occupational hygiene in improving worker health and understand the role of the occupational hygienist.
  • Understand health hazards encountered in the workplace and identification techniques (foundation level).
  • Identify sources and potential routes of occupational exposure (foundation level).
  • Understand the basics of which exposure assessment, measurement processes, and control methods we use (foundation level).
  • Manage occupational hygiene programmes in your work environment.

Suitable for

  • Health and safety professionals.
  • Occupational health specialists (including physicians and nurses).
  • Other specialists wishing to interface on workplace health issues (e.g. acoustics, ergonomics, human factors, occupational psychology, work, organisation, bio safety, acoustics, engineering, or analytical chemistry).

Learning Outcomes

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

  • 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.

Course Format

  • 7-days course: 14:00 am to 19:00 IST.
  • Minimum 40 hours including demonstration sessions, lectures, tutorials, guided reading, overnight questions and examination.
  • There will be a 40 Multiple Choice Questions MCQ with “open book” ONLINE examination with an allowed time of 120 minutes.

Course Content

  1. Introduction
    1. Definition of occupational hygiene
    2. History & Background of the development of occupational hygiene
    3. The importance of occupational hygiene today
    4. Overview of qualifications and careers in occupational hygiene
  2. Human physiology
    1. General metabolism
    2. Respiratory system
    3. Circulatory system
    4. Sight
    5. Hearing
    6. Heat Regulation
  3. Chemical hazards recognition
    1. Terminology and information gathering
    2. Effects on the body
    3. Material form
    4. Hazardous processes
  4. Physical Hazard Recognition
  5. Hazard Evaluation
    1. Exposure Assessment (Chemical hazard)
    2. Exposure Assessment (Physical hazard)
  6. Control of Hazard



Note: any references made to standards and best practice documents are provided solely as guidance for candidates and may not represent the most current updates or publications.