About
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.
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
Certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total tuition hours of the course
- 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
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
- Heat Stress and Strain
- Effects of heat
- Evaluating heat stress
- Controlling the risks from heat
- Introduction to thermal comfort
Day 4
Radiation, Biological Agents and Ergonomics
- Hazards from radiation covering both ionising and non-ionising sources
- Controlling radiation hazards
- Biological hazards in the workplace
- Managing the risk of legionnaires' disease
- A review of the basic principles of food safety and food hygiene
- Introduction to occupational ergonomics
- Manual handling and musculoskeletal risks
- Assessment and control of risks during manual handling operations
- Display screen equipment
Day 5
- Review - Managing occupational health risks
- Promoting occupational health programmes
- Development of action plans
- Extended exercise - case study
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
