COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators.
The course is a core module for the International Certicate in Occupational Hygiene (ICertOHTA). It is designed to be delivered as a 5-day taught programme including participant’s assessment.
The aim of the course is:-
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Understand the techniques for assessing exposure to hazardous substances in the workplace.
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Understand how exposure information can be used to assess risk.
On completing this course successfully, the participants will be able to:-
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Describe the general approach to health risk assessment, including the role of atmospheric monitoring
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Select appropriate equipment to measure specific airborne contaminants and devise a suitable sampling strategy
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Presents the results in a form useful for health risk assessment purposes to enable management to comply with relevant legislation
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.