May 02 - May 12, 2023
Course Overview
The course is the essential training for the Foundation Level qualification and provides an entry level understanding of occupational hygiene and the protection of worker health, by highlighting the principles in occupational hygiene as the basis for anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of hazards that can be encountered in the workplace.
Learning Outcomes
- 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
Course Content
1. The importance of Occupational Hygiene
2. Human Physiology and Industrial Diseases
3. Fundamentals of Toxicology
4. examples of Hazardous Substances / Processes
5. Assessment of Health Risks
6. Measurements of Airborne Contaminants
7. Hygiene standards and Occupational Exposure Limits
8. Biological Monitoring and Health Surveillance
9. General approaches to the control of risks to health
10. Ventilation
11. Asbestos
12. Biological Hazards
13. Noise
14. Vibration
15. Thermal Environment
16. Introduction to Lighting and Ionising Radiation
17. Ionising Radiation
18. Introduction to Ergonomics
19. Behaviour and Culture
20. Work related stress
21. Careers