5425 (v.7) Occupational Health, Safety and Hygiene 581

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Area:	School of Public Health
Contact Hours:	8.0
Credits:	25.0
Individual Study:	1 x 8 Hours Weekly
The frameworks of occupational health and safety, risk assessment, hazard identification and control hierarchy. Principles of toxicology, occupational hygiene, ergonomics. Hazard of chemicals, noise, radiation, biological agents. Anthropometrics, lighting, muscle physiology, thermal climate, information processing, mental workload, circadian and intracardian variations, influence of stresses.