04 March – 07 March 2025 & 12 March 2025

Course Overview

The course 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.

Learning Outcomes

On completing this course successfully, the student 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.

Course Format

• The course is normally run as a taught course over 5 days.
• There will be an examination held on day-5, which consist of 40 multi-choice question (MCQ), ‘open book’ examination with an allowed time of 90 minutes.

Course Content

1. Importance of occupational hygiene
2. Human physiology
3. Chemical hazards recognition
4. Physical hazards recognition
5. Hazards evaluation
6. Control of hazards