E-learning: Principles of occupational health and challenges of industrial disasters

About this course

Occupational health is an important topic for health practice. In order to protect health and well-being, the need to understand the principles of occupational health and prepare for unforeseeable events is rapidly growing. This course will provide participants with an overview of occupational hazards and health impacts, fundamental to hazard assessment and control. In addition, it will explore workplace emergency planning and responses to industrial disasters, as well as the related challenges to occupational health.

What you’ll learn

The course will enable participants to:

1. Understand the scope and principles of occupational health
2. Recognize common occupational hazards and relations between work and health
3. Acquire knowledge of measures of control of occupational health hazards
4. Describe emergency planning and risk assessment of industrial disasters

Target audience

The target audience for the course is individuals studying and working in health, policy, education, industrial, and humanitarian sectors. Students may be civil servants, healthcare personnel, frontline disaster relief practitioners, and undergraduate or postgraduate students of closely-related disciplines. This online course will be available to anyone in the world.

Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will have gained:

Knowledge:

1. The scope and principle of occupational health
2. The common occupational hazards and health impact in the workplace
3. The methods of control for occupational hazards
4. The planning of workplace emergency responses to industrial disasters

Skills:

1. To identify the methods to assess occupational hazards
2. To outline the prevention strategies for hazards in the workplace

List of lectures

1. Introduction to principles of occupational health and hygiene
2. Occupational hazards and health impacts in the workplace, with an emphasis on physical hazards
3. Chemical hazards and health impacts in the work place 
4. Occupational hazards and health impacts in the workplace, with an emphasis on biological hazards
5. Occupational health risk assessment and case studies
6. Workplace emergency planning, preparedness and responses to industrial disasters
7. Challenges of occupational health induced by industrial disasters

Registration is available on the course website.