COURSE OVERVIEW

The aim of this course is to provide the participant with a sound understanding of the techniques for assessing exposure to hazardous substances in the workplace and with an understanding of how exposure information can be used to assess risk.
On completing this course successfully, the participants will be able to:-
• Describe the general approach to health risk assessment, including the role of atmospheric monitoring
• Select appropriate equipment to measure specific airborne contaminants and devise a suitable sampling strategy
• Presents the results in a form useful for health risk assessment purposes to enable management to comply with relevant legislation
The course normally run as a taught course over 5 days (including lectures, tutorials, practical/demonstration sessions, guided reading, overnight questions and examination).
This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of OHTA501: Measurement of Hazardous Substances. It covers the risk assessment process and occupational hygiene risk assessment; the risk assessment tools and non-sampling approaches; the occupational exposure limits (OEL), short term exposure limits and long term average (LTA) exposure limit; the workplace sampling strategies and the types of surveys including sampling patterns; and the fundamentals of biological monitoring, biological half-life, sampling time, urine specimen acceptability and biological standards.
During this interactive course, participants will learn the sample analysis covering analytical methods, laboratory balances and quality assurance of analysis; the dusts, fumes and fibres including particulate deposition and air sampling, inhalable dust etc; the pump calibration, calculation of particulate air sampling results and calculation of 8h-time weighted average; the fundamentals of air sampling for gases and vapours including sorbent tubes, filters, mixed phase exposures and liquid sample media; and the air sampling, grab sampling, sample analysis and calculations of results.