Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health Engineering

Course Category : Occupational Health & Safety

This professional programme builds advanced capability in industrial hygiene engineering aligned with international best practice, with an applied focus on hazard anticipation, evaluation, and control in industrial workplaces.
Duration: 5 Days | Level: Intermediate

Introduction

Industrial expansion and accelerating production technologies have made occupational health risk management a strategic necessity for protecting human capital and ensuring organisational sustainability. This programme is designed to provide an integrated understanding of industrial hygiene principles, from anticipating and recognising hazards to measuring, evaluating, and implementing effective control strategies aligned with recognised international standards.
The course enables participants to perform the role of an industrial hygienist effectively, understand professional certification pathways, and manage health surveillance and environmental monitoring programmes that strengthen prevention culture and reduce occupational disease and work-related illness..

Targeted Audience

HSE officers and occupational health specialists
Process and production engineers
Middle management in industrial sectors
Environmental, quality, and compliance officers
Industrial site and facility supervisors
Office and service personnel exposed to occupational risks

Targeted Skills

Occupational health hazard analysis and classification
Application of occupational exposure standards
Environmental sampling and monitoring techniques
Industrial toxicology assessment
Health surveillance and prevention programme design
Development of risk control strategies

Expected Outcomes

Apply an integrated occupational health risk management methodology.
Conduct structured workplace health hazard identification and evaluation.
Analyse chemical, biological, and physical exposure impacts.
Design data-driven health surveillance programmes.
Select and implement appropriate engineering and administrative controls.

Training Topics Index

Definition and scope of industrial hygiene
Occupational health management systems
Occupational exposure standards
Classification of health hazards
Work-related diseases

Human physiology and exposure pathways
Biological and chemical hazards
Physical and radiation risks
Early detection methodologies
Workplace risk profiling

Routes of exposure
Classification of hazardous substances
Hepatotoxic, nephrotoxic and neurotoxic agents
Dose-response relationships
Occupational toxic risk evaluation

Walk-through surveys
Gas, vapour and particulate sampling
Monitoring equipment and calibration
Data interpretation and analysis
Health risk assessment review

Engineering and administrative controls
Biological monitoring and medical surveillance
Hearing conservation programmes
Occupational disease prevention
Step-by-step health risk management framework

Course Features

Updated and Interactive Content
Hypothetical Examples and Case Studies
Pre- and Post-assessments to Measure Impact
Verified Certificate with a QR Verification Code

Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health Engineering