2 - 6 Feb 2025
Cairo (Egypt)
Hotel : Holiday Inn & Suites Cairo Maadi, an IHG Hotel
Cost : 3575 € Euro
This course emphasizes the importance of workforce health for organizational performance, focusing on industrial hygiene and occupational health. It teaches how to identify workplace health risks, implement control measures, and reduce sickness absence to optimize employee performance. Delegates will learn to integrate health into safety management systems and organizational culture. The course includes risk assessments, practical solutions, and syndicate sessions to apply lessons to various industries. It aims to enhance understanding of how work activities impact health and promote proactive health management.
Understand the aspects of industrial hygiene and occupational health
Appreciate the difference between Health and Safety
Understand how work can make workers ill and what you can do to change this
Implement occupational health management and surveillance procedures
Identify occupational health issues and the relevant risk reduction solutions
Industrial (Occupational) Hygienists who develop and manage health programs
All managers, supervisors and those who are involved with occupational health
Production, maintenance, engineers and health, and safety personnel
All personnel involved in purchasing and managing hazardous substances
Day One: Introduction to Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health
What are industrial hygiene and occupational health?
The Health aspect of Health and Safety
Identifying health risks to employees and contractors
Understanding health risk effects on the human body and its organs
Global strategies and trends
Syndicate Session: Asbestos and other problems
Work organization, work-related stress, and well-being
Thinking about the Culture of the organization
Day Two: Organ Structure and Function
Every breath you take: The lungs and respiratory ill-health
Syndicate Session: Respiratory ill health and silica
Effects of inhaled materials
Skin deep: Dermatitis and other issues
Effects of physical agents on major organs
Biological agents and their effects
Occupational Health and Corporate Culture – do you care?
Day Three: Occupational Health Risks
Occupational health elements and their health risk effects
Occupational diseases and infections
Occupational toxicology (chemicals, gases, vapors, and fibers)
Consideration of COSHH
Syndicate exercise: Reviewing Controls and staying up to date (e.g. Welding)
Musculoskeletal disorders and prevention solutions
Health effects of light, heat, noise, vibration, pressure, and radiation
Syndicate Session
Day Four: Principles of Industrial Hygiene
Principles of (Health) Risk Assessment
Syndicate exercise
Design of exposure measurement surveys and analysis
Retrospective exposure assessment
Biological monitoring
Sampling methods for gases, vapors, and aerosols
Dermal exposure assessment
Day Five: Occupational Health Management
Occupational health monitoring and surveillance programs
Noise, vibration, thermal and lighting management
Personal protective equipment and its limitations in protecting the health
Understanding Global, Regional and Local Environmental Issues
Implement an occupational health management program
Occupational Health and Corporate Culture
Summary of Course Key Points