Courses Details
EHS757: Applied Principles Of Occupational Health
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 2 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Richard Neitzel (Residential);
- Last offered Fall 2023
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: Observation and discussion of selected industrial processes, potential hazards, and controls. Potential hazards include chemical, physical, biological, and ergonomic. Emphasis on application and integration of different aspects of occupational health management. Field trips to various industrial plants. Guest lectures and student-lead discussions. Intended for second-year Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine students.
- Learning Objectives: 1. Evaluate how to practice the evaluation and discussion of real-world industrial settings where there is the potential for worker exposures to hazardous agents 2. Discuss how to work in multidisciplinary teams of health professionals 3. Understand occupational health and safety hazards associated with different processes: sources, exposure paths 4. Differentiate between different occupational health and safety hazards and control options for hazard reduction 5. Practice effective communication and interviewing skills
- Syllabus for EHS757
