Learning objectives
Understand the meaning of industrial hygiene, which is the discipline that deals with the identification, evaluation and control, also for the purposes of prevention and eventual reclamation, of environmental chemical and physical factors deriving from industrial activity, present inside and outside work environments, which can alter the health and well-being of workers and the population.
In particular, occupational hygiene has as its main object the study and intervention on risk factors in the workplace, related to the determination of pathologies of professional origin.
Prerequisites
None
Course unit content
The course provides the basic information necessary to perform the profession of industrial hygienist.
Full programme
Risk analysis, assessment and management tools (Concepts and definitions of Danger, Risk, Exposure and Susceptibility; Environmental monitoring; Biological monitoring; Health surveillance; The guiding values for interpreting environmental monitoring data: OEL, TLV, MAK
The guiding values for interpreting biological monitoring: reference values, action levels, limit values that can be used individually or in groups
Bibliography
Lezioni di medicina del lavoro. Eds. Berti.
Teaching methods
Oral exams
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral test
Other information
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