Industrial Hygiene Introduction
Overview/Description
This course offers an overview of industrial hygiene, the set of principles that make a workplace safe. The primary focus of the course is teaching how to create and maintain a safety and health system. Safety and health systems are sets of processes and regulations at a worksite, designed for that worksite, that provide for safe operations and employee health, as well as serving as a foundation for functional team building. Course topics include an overview of industrial hygiene, discussion of specific industrial hygiene hot topics, payoffs of safety and health systems, components of safety and health systems, the process of work site analysis, and information about how to create a sustainable work site safety and health system.
Target
Audience
Employees who may face occupational hazards associated with industrial hygiene
Expected
Duration
2.5 hours
Lesson
Objectives:
Industrial Hygiene Basics
identify the reasons that knowing about industrial hygiene is important.
differentiate between hazardous and nonhazardous situations in a matching exercise.
match industrial hygiene issues with examples of those issues.
recommend actions an employee can take to address an industrial hygiene hot topic in a given scenario.
Safety and Health Systems
identify the reasons that knowing about safety and health systems is important.
recognize how a safety and health system could benefit a company by matching benefits to examples of the problems they address.
determine how a safety and health system would benefit a company in a given scenario.
match components of a safety and health system with examples of those components.
give advice about implementing a complete safety and health system in a given scenario.
match the steps for a work site analysis with examples of what each step addresses.
recommend work site analysis steps to be taken in a given scenario.
identify the steps necessary to creating a sustainable safety and health system.
Course Number: SFTY0011