Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene

Online Program Overview

Protect Employees from Workplace Hazards and Dangers

Organizations are responsible for the overall health and safety of the people they employ. As a participant in this online program, you will learn the concepts critical to creating a safe work environment by developing your industrial hygiene technical expertise.

The skills and strategies taught in this course will help you protect employees from workplace health hazards, improve employee safety, and increase productivity. From radiation protection to ergonomics, the program focuses on how to anticipate, evaluate, prevent, and control a wide range of hazards in a variety of workplaces and industries. After participating in this program, you will be able to immediately apply your industrial hygiene skills to improve employee health and safety.

Curriculum

This program is designed for participants with direct responsibility for industrial hygiene, employee health, and safety. Participants will learn the concepts critical to creating a safe work environment and hone their technical expertise in protecting employees from workplace hazards.

Participants will explore topics including ergonomics, exposure assessment, radiation protection, personal protective equipment, respiratory protection, ventilation, quality of the indoor environment, noise reduction, and sampling and instrumentation.

Objectives & Highlights

Learning Objectives

• Recognize health hazards in occupational settings
• Determine the physiological and toxicological effects of exposures to workplace hazards
• Understand the physical and chemical behavior of aerosols and gas mixtures
• Identify methods to measure and control exposure to noise in the workplace
• Understand the effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation
• Analyze and control risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders and design workplace ergonomics programs
• Evaluate work practices and engineering control techniques for the prevention of occupational disease
• Analyze contaminant control ventilation systems
• Select control measures specific to exposures

Program Highlights

• Participate in virtual sessions, including respirator fit testing, direct reading instruments for air contaminants, and control ventilation systems
• Explore topics including exposure assessment, noise reduction, ventilation, and quality of indoor environment
• Obtain the skills needed to protect employees from hazards and dangers, while reducing costs associated with health-related productivity loss.
• Learn from top Harvard faculty and the industry’s leading experts in a close, personal setting
• Network and develop long-lasting relationships with other industrial hygiene professionals

Credits and Logistics

Continuing Education Credit

This program does not offer continuing education credit.

All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the program.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has an Education and Research Center (ERC) funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Who Should Participate

This program is designed for new and experienced professionals with the following responsibilities:

• Employee health
• Environmental health and safety
• Facilities management
• Human resources
• Industrial hygiene
• Management of health, safety, security, or industrial hygiene programs
• Occupational health and medicine
• Occupational hygiene
• Others involved in improving the work environment