Industrial Hygiene

Day 1: Introduction to Industrial Hygiene

• What is industrial hygiene?

• Industrial hygiene management systems

• Occupational exposure standards

• Overview of the types of health risks

• Occupational diseases and illness conditions

• Case study review

• Delegate exercise: outline the primary health risks

Day 2: Understanding Health Risks

• The human system (skeleton, muscles, nerves, circulation, respiratory, skin, sense organs, etc)

• Methods of identifying health risks

• Biological risks

• Chemical risks

• Physical risks

• Radiation risks (ionizing and non-ionizing)

• Delegate exercise: list primary health risks of your organization

Day 3: Industrial Toxicology

• Exposure routes of hazardous substances

• Health effects and classification of hazardous substances

  • Toxic, Irritant, Asphyxiant and Anesthetic

  • Hepatoxic agents

  • Nephrotoxic agents

  • Neurotoxic agents

  • Blood damaging agents

  • Lung damaging agents

• Delegate exercise: produce exposure routes of entry into body diagram

Day 4: Measuring and Evaluating Health Risks

• Recognition of potential health risks

• A sampling of gases, vapors, and particulates

• Walk-through surveys

• Health surveillance programs

• Health risk assessment reviews

• Methods of controlling health risks

• Determining health risk control methods

• Case study review

• Delegate exercise: list the use of anticipate, recognize, manage and control of health risks

Day 5: Monitoring & Recording Health Risk Controls

• Biological monitoring and medical surveillance

• Hearing conservation programs

• Occupational diseases and illness condition prevention programs

• Learning fro incidents of ill health

• Step-by-step guide for managing health risks

• Video: list health risk monitoring and, the records to be kept in your organization

• Key point summary of program topics