Case Studies in the Application of Industrial Hygiene Control Methods, part III of the EIH Series

4.0 IH CM points, 4.0 CEUs, and 4.0 COCs

The course is considered "intermediate." New comers to OEHS may require more time and outside study. Case studies range from intermediate to advanced in technical difficulty.

Who Will Benefit:

• Industrial hygienists
• Safety professionals
• Engineers
• EH&S specialists
• Health program managers.

Learning Outcomes: Upon completion students will be able to

• Identify critical air, emission sources, indoor contaminants, and employee behaviors that contribute to occupational health hazards.
• Evaluate environmental factors and conditions necessary to identify and determine appropriate IH controls such as dilution and local exhaust ventilation, administrative controls, respiratory protection, substitution, isolation, and so forth.
• Identify the various types of IH controls available.
• Apply engineering and other types of controls to common IH problems.
• Use the Autocalc approach to solving math problems.

Course Specifics: This self-study course is a compliment to the to another AIHA DL course by Jeff Burton entitled Elemental Industrial Hygiene. This course covers IH control principles as seen through sixty case studies, depicting IH control principles. It also contains a preprogrammed calculator, which aids in calculations, and seven student lessons.

The course discusses the application of traditional industrial hygiene controls in the workplace and is based on sixty case studies. (Industrial hygiene is the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, CONTROL of employee health hazards.) Most of the case studies involve the application of engineering and administrative controls and cover both industrial and IAQ-type problems.

Students will read each case study, work through sample calculations, answer questions, work through practical exercises, and complete a short lesson test. The lesson tests are reviewed by the course author. After completing and submitting all seven lessons students take a final exam which covers all the materials presented in the course.

After submitting all lesson materials (in paper copy or through email), students will be sent a final exam to complete and return with their completed case studies workbook for grading. A certificate of completion awarding CEUs and CM points will be issued upon receiving a score of 70% or higher on the final exam and a satisfactorily completed workbook.

Course Outline: The course follows the case studies and is divided into seven lessons

• Lesson 1: Risk assessment, general control approaches, lab safety; problem characterizations, semiconductor ventilation.
• Lesson 2: Risk assessment, ventilation approaches, dilution ventilation, management controls, IAQ, ASHRAE 52.2 on filtration, noise control.
• Lesson 3: IAQ controls, fans, noise control, duct cleaning, standards, dilution ventilation, risk assessment, physical health hazards control, hood design.
• Lesson 4: Risk assessment, dilution ventilation, local exhaust ventilation, OSHA compliance, IAQ controls.
• Lesson 5: General controls, permitting, IAQ, radon gas control, ETS control, recirculation of exhaust air, standards.
• Lesson 6: General assessments and application of controls, makeup air, lab ventilation, hood selection, dilution ventilation, ETS controls, protection factors, VDT controls.
• Lesson 7: Hood troubleshooting, IAQ, advanced hood design, ionizing radiation, VP method for design, Exposure assessment, accident reconstruction, odor controls.

Time to Complete: This course will take about 40 hours to complete and should be completed within one year of enrollment.

Course Components: A text of case studies: sixty practical hands on applications of IH controls principles, 2001, 350-page workbook. A Student Lesson Manual, a pdf-based document with lesson materials, supplementary information, worksheets, and data.  Note students will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the pdf file, if unable to view pdf files students may request a paper copy for an additional charge.  The IVE AutoCalc Package, including two books and a preprogrammed TI-82 calculator to perform calculations found in the course and a video tape which provides instruction on the AutoCalc as well as background information for case studies. Lastly, after completing and submitting all seven lessons students take a final exam, which covers all the materials presented in the course. Module contents include: Introductory information, Introduction to the calculator, Overview of industrial ventilation, Dilution ventilation equations

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