25 March – 28 March 2025 & 11th April 2025

Course Overview

The course aims 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 with relevant legislation.

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 60 multi-choice question (MCQ), ‘open book’ examination with an allowed time of 150 minutes.

Course Content

1. Risk Assessment
2. Air Sampling Theory and Practice
3. Air Sampling Equipment
4. Sample Analysis
5. Hygiene Standards
6. Biological Monitoring
7. Calculation, Interpretation and Presentation of Results