Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using the state-of-the-art industrial hygiene simulator. This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive overview of industrial hygiene and occupational health hazards. Participants will get an in-depth training on occupational health and hygiene issues and will learn about hygiene assessment and control principles in dealing with health hazards. The course develops the practical skills of the participants in the application part of occupational health issues and occupational hygiene measuring parameters. Participants will learn as well the practical skills in the application of hygiene assessments. It practices and job requirements of OH officers and hygienists. It is a unique blend of practical exercises and theoretical training in the subject. The course is dealing with general principles and methods of controlling occupational health hazards basically to ensure that employees exposure to harmful chemical and physical agents doesn?t result in occupational illness.After the completion of this course, OH officers & hygienists will learn about the types of industrial hygiene control measures to be installed depending on the nature of harmful substance/agents and its entry into the body and how to reduce and take control measures for the contamination. Process Industry deals with materials and products that are toxic, hazardous and harmful to human health and environment. Therefore, it is mandatory requirement for process companies to train occupational health officers and hygienists in how to understand the hazard, measure the toxic limit and exposure and take immediate control measures and permanent control measures based on preventive planning. This course will help the OH officers and hygienist possess the adequate skills to implement the control methodology. They will also learn the toxicology and its effect on human and broad range of potential hazards, all the biological agents, harmful chemicals, construction materials which pose health hazards, physical stressors as well as total understanding of process technology and work practices. The course will help participants to understand the circumstances surrounding an exposure hazard and choosing method(s) that will provide adequate control, lower exposure and path of its control to workers, employees work patterns and use of remedial measures.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30