Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. This course is to describe the ways in which exposure to hazardous substances arises in the workplace and to introduce the methodologies and technologies available to control exposures and thereby reduce risks to health. On completing this course successfully, participants will be able to :- 1) Describe how airborne contaminants are generated by industrial processes, how this impacts on the control strategy, and how control solutions can thereby be optimised. 2)Recognise the range of approaches to risk reduction embodied in the hierarchy of control and select appropriate strategies for implementation. 3)Describe the meaning of ?adequate control?, particularly in relation to personal exposures. 4) Discuss the importance of design considerations in terms of the workplace, process, and plant, as a means of reducing occupational exposures. 5)Describe the principal elements of a local exhaust ventilation system, give examples of typical installations and know how to carry out the necessary measurements to assess whether a local exhaust ventilation system is effective and operating to the design specification. 6)Recognise the limitation s of local exhaust hoods and enclosures and the means to optimise their effectiveness. 7)Describe how personal protective equipment programmes may be used in an effective manner. 8)Recognise the impact that control measures may have on other workplace hazards and understand the need to take a holistic approach to the design of control solutions. During this interactive course, participants will learn the administrative elements comprising of reducing periods of exposure, exclusion of non-essential personnel, personal hygiene arrangements, coordinated approach to control, training and supervision; the access to hazardous areas and the role of assessment measurement, monitoring, health surveillance in initiating control measures; the role of written operating procedures, permits to work; and the role of occupational hygiene programmes in continuing control.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30