Course in industrial hygiene

In the current labor market, it is normal that the technological development and the scope of the economic objectives of the organization be taken into account, forgetting too often, that the work is developed and the objectives are met, by people with diverse capacities, motivations and expectations, so you cannot forget the risks of hygienic origin, caused by the pollutants present in the workplaces, which, by the frequency and incidence with which they are seriously repercussions on the health of the individual, causing occupational diseases in the worst case. Since the entry into force of the Occupational Risk Prevention Law, companies must avoid any situation that may affect the safety and health of their workers. In many jobs, especially those related to industrial environments, there may be hygienic risks, related to multiple types of pollutants, physical (such as noise or vibrations), chemicals (by the use of harmful chemical agents) or biological (such as viruses and bacteria). These pollutants can develop occupational diseases to exposed workers, being those that generate longer work casualties and more dramatic repercussions.

- Learn to evaluate the different hygienic risk agents and organize the necessary action plans for their elimination and control, as well as the preventive measures to be adopted in each case. - Study the main branches of industrial hygiene. . - Know the main types of pollutants present in labor environments. - Know what are the fundamental characteristics of pollutants, physical, chemical and biological. - Develop strategies for detection, evaluation and prevention of pollutants, in work environments. - Identify the main pathologies derived from the negative action of pollutants. - Analyze what prevention, control and management strategies hygienic risk, as well as the way to put them into practice. - Know the main environmental sampling methodologies. - Know how to develop an environmental sampling strategy. - Learn to evaluate the industrial hygienic risk.

Quality departments, environment and occupational health, laboratories, food industries, industries for transforming raw materials, industrial environments, etc.

This training action is generally aimed at providing the student with comprehensive training regarding pollutants present in workplaces, chemical, physical and biological, as well as its characteristic factors and their health consequences. The formative action also offers the student various individual and collective methodological strategies, which enable the reduction and control of the risks generated by the different types of pollutants, as well as numerous preventive techniques that allow effectively dealing with situations of work hygienic risk.

Company Directors, HR DIRECTORS, Selection and HR technicians, responsible and technicians of PRL departments and occupational health, responsible for quality and environment food industries, industries for transformation of raw materials, industrial environments, etc. In general, any person or professional who wishes to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for the prevention of risk situations related to industrial hygiene.

This training is not included in the scope of official regulated training (Infant Education, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Official Professional Training FP, Baccalaureate, University Degree, Official University Master and PhD). It is therefore a complementary and/or specialization training, aimed at acquiring certain skills, skills or aptitudes of a professional nature, being able to be barely as merit in workbags and/or opposition competitions, always within the complementary training section and/or continuous training being always essential to review the specific requirements of the public labor stock of the public labor stock market.