Industrial Hygiene is the discipline of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and controlling health hazards in the working environment. The objective is to protect worker health and well-being, and to safeguard the community at large. Proper implementation of the industrial hygiene program protects personnel from chemical, physical, and biological hazards.

This is a two-hour online course.

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

• Describe industrial hygiene practices
• Describe the regulatory framework pertaining to industrial hygiene
• Describe the effects of the most common biological, chemical, physical hazards
• List ways to evaluate the most common biological, chemical, physical hazards
• Identify ways of controlling and preventing the most common biological, chemical, and physical hazards