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Learning objectives

- principles and methods of industrial/occupational hygiene, applied in the context of the work hygiene and the protection of health in the workplace;
- role of occupational hygiene in risk assessment processes and the appropriate application of environmental monitoring;
- methods of sampling, measuring and evaluating the main chemical, physical and biological risk factors (noise, vibration and radiation are covered in other courses);
- parameters and evaluation methods of ventilation, lighting and microclimate in the workplace

Program

Occupational and industrial hygiene: definitions and general principles
Aims of industrial hygiene and its role within the prevention measures
Chemical, physical and biological agents and other risk factors
Normative requirements (laws, technical standards and requirements, other)
Exposure assessment and risk assessment
Assessment and measure
Sampling and measurement strategies and methods
Validity of measurements and errors
The occupational limit values
General information on airborne pollutants (gas, vapors, dusts, fibers, fumes)
Sampling and measurement of airborne pollutants
Air quality control in the workplace: ventilation principles
Microclimate and lighting; measurement principles and methods