Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene
“We work with the slogan ‘no one gets hurt’ and the knowledge I gained at this program will assist us in keeping up that promise.”
—Athar Shah, MB, MD, Medical Director, Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery
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Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene
Improve employee health, safety, and security with applied industrial hygiene skills. You will benefit from a comprehensive introduction to industrial hygiene and gain skills to protect employees from workplace environmental hazards.
Program Fees
- Standard Price $2,200.00
Program Overview
Work-related injury and illness significantly impact both employee productivity and employers’ bottom line. Beyond these direct costs, public perception of an organization can be adversely affected by health, safety, and environmental issues. Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene: Fundamentals for Health and Safety Professionals will help you address these challenges.
The skills and strategies taught in this program will help you protect employees from workplace health hazards, improve employee safety, and increase productivity. From radiation protection to ergonomics, the program focuses on how to anticipate, evaluate, prevent, and control a wide range of hazards in a variety of workplaces and industries. After participating in this program, you will be able to immediately apply your industrial hygiene skills to improve employee health and safety.
This online program is designed both for professionals with direct responsibility for industrial hygiene and for those managing the health and safety function. As a participant, you will learn the concepts critical to creating a safe work environment and hone your technical expertise in protecting employees from workplace health hazards.
Concepts covered in this Industrial hygiene course include:
- Ergonomics
- Exposure assessment
- Radiation protection
- Personal protective equipment
- Respiratory protection
- Ventilation
- Quality of the indoor environment
- Noise reduction
- Sampling and instrumentation
This course enables you to practice skills you can immediately apply to improve employee health and safety in your organization.
Objectives & Curriculum
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize health hazards in occupational settings
- Determine the physiological and toxicological effects of exposures to workplace hazards
- Understand the physical and chemical behavior of aerosols and gas mixtures
- Identify methods to measure and control exposure to noise in the workplace
- Understand the effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation
- Analyze and control risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders and design workplace ergonomics programs
- Evaluate work practices and engineering control techniques for the prevention of occupational disease
- Analyze contaminant control ventilation systems
- Select control measures specific to exposures
Key Takeaways
- This program is designed for participants with direct responsibility for industrial hygiene, employee health, and safety. Participants will learn the concepts critical to creating a safe work environment and hone their technical expertise in protecting employees from workplace hazards.
- Participants will explore topics including ergonomics, exposure assessment, radiation protection, personal protective equipment, respiratory protection, ventilation, quality of the indoor environment, noise reduction, and sampling and instrumentation.