Online Courses Handbook 2003

11519 (v.4) Occupational Hygiene and Chemical Safety 596

Area:	School of Public Health
Contact Hours:	8.0
Credits:	25.0
Individual Study:	1 x 8 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	5425 (v.7) Occupational Health, Safety and Hygiene 581 or any previous version
Workplace contaminants and stressors and their evaluation (gases and vapours, dusts, heat, noise). Preliminary survey, selection of instruments and analytical methods. Conducting a field survey, interpretation and use of results. Instrumentation and techniques. Application of monitoring. Control strategies. Statistics, material safety data sheets, strategy of survey design.