OSH 220 Industrial Hygiene (5 credits)
Course Description
Apply the basic concepts of industrial hygiene at the technician level. Understand toxicology in an occupational setting. Recognize and evaluate health hazards and develop controls to protect worker health in workplace scenarios. Evaluate health hazards in the workplace with OSHA exposure limits. Complete a case study report where industrial hygiene practices are applied to a real-world situation.
Course Content
A. Key elements of an industrial hygiene program
B. Routes of entry that chemicals can enter the human body
C. Airborne hazards and appropriate sampling techniques
D. Physical hazards and appropriate sampling techniques.
E. Hazard control techniques
F. Material Safety Data Sheet (SDS).
Student Outcomes
1. Apply the basic concepts of industrial hygiene at the technician level to workplace scenarios.
2. Understand the toxicology of substances in an occupational setting and the occurrence of occupational diseases.
3. Learn methods to identify and evaluate exposure to health hazards, and then determine the appropriate sampling and monitoring techniques.
4. Develop work practices and controls to protect worker’s health.
5. Apply OSHA exposure limits and workplace standards to health hazards.
6. Apply industrial hygiene practices to a specific workplace setting and complete a case study report.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Collect data on work environments for on-going analysis that may predict risks and hazards and identify sources of exposure and/or contamination. Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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