Course details

Overview ?

Course Description

Industrial Hygiene (IH) is the science and technology that aims to identify, evaluate and control the occupational health risks in the workplaces. Applying serious IH concepts has been critical for companies to protect worker health, maintain regulatory compliance, and address social responsibility issues in China, from manufacturing operations to supply chain.

Advanced IH workshops are characterized by discussion of practical down to earth IH issues encountered by thousands of EHS professionals in everyday life. Real life scenarios discussed reflect presenters extensive experience on literally hundreds of IH projects for multinational clients in China.

Course Objective

By the end of the course, attendees will:

Understand and apply concepts of Industrial Hygiene
Know Industrial Hygiene regulatory trends and guidelines
Be able to perform hazard identification tasks
Be able to perform qualitative IH risk assessments
Understand exposure assessment strategies & methods
Understand hierarchy of controls & control methods
Be familiar with some of the most critical IH issues of today
Be able to make informed decision to protect employee health

Course Certificate

Certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total tuition hours of the course

Who Should attend?

Company EHS Managers and Engineers
H&S professionals
Human Resource Managers
Occupational Health Nurses and Physicians
Risk and Insurance Managers, Legal professionals
Any other individuals with responsibility for employee well-being, labor relations or employee productivity

Course Outline:

Day 1

Introduction to Occupational Health and Hygiene

Introduction to the basic principles of occupational health and hygiene
The effects of work on health
Review of roles and functions of occupational health and safety professionals
Occupational Safety and Health management
The fundamental principles of establishing a safe system of work
Introduction to health risk assessment
Health screening and surveillance -Basic principles
Biological monitoring
Identification of occupational hygiene control strategies

Day 2

Chemical Agents

Chemical hazards at work
Introduction to toxicology
Control of substances hazardous to health
Assessment and monitoring of hazardous substances
Occupational exposure limits
Controlling hazardous substances
Introduction to local exhaust ventilation design
Personal protective equipment

Day 3

Physical Agents

Noise - Its measurement, evaluation and control

Effects of noise on human health
Establishing a hearing conservation program
Principles of undertaking a noise survey Vibration - its measurement, evaluation and control
Effects of hand arm and whole body vibration on human health
Assessing human vibration exposures
Controlling vibration