Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this module, students will be able to:
Apply occupational hygiene approaches of anticipation, recognition, evaluation, monitoring, and control to identify health hazards or new and emerging hazards and evaluate solutions and controls.
Demonstrate a high level of knowledge of relevant literature and legislation and be able to critically analyse and justify the rationale for prevention and monitoring systems in current use or for updating systems/policies.
Demonstrate knowledge of the appropriate approach(es), equipment, and sampling strategies for measuring specific hazards and how to evaluate the controls used to mitigate the hazard.
Summarise and communicate occupational hygiene results to various audiences, including writing occupational hygiene reports.
Understand and be able to apply that the learning outcomes of this module are consistent with achieving the objectives of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3 Good Health and SDG 8 Decent Work from an occupational health and well-being perspective.
Indicative Module Content:
Introduction to occupational hygiene, occupational hygiene management and case studies, principles of occupational hygiene (Identification, Evaluation and Control), exposure controls and baseline monitoring, occupational hygiene assessment, occupational hygiene practicals, air exposure and indoor air quality, thermal environment, noise, vibration, human biomonitoring and Ionising and non-ionising radiation.