You must live within Region 6 (Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana & New Mexico) in order to attend online OSHA Classes thru our OTIEC. You are eligible to take online courses within your geographic region ONLY.

This course covers industrial hygiene practices and related OSHA regulations and procedures. Course topics include recognition, evaluation, and control of chemical, physical, biological and ergonomic hazards, Permissible Exposure Limits (PEL), OSHA health standards, respiratory protection, engineering controls, OSHA sampling protocols and strategies, and workplace health program elements. The course features workshops in health hazard recognition, OSHA health standards and use of sampling equipment. Upon course completion students will have the ability to recognize basic industrial hygiene principles and practices, identify characteristics of common air contaminants, locate PELs, perform basic industrial hygiene calculations, and determine methods for hazard control and abatement.

30 Contact Hours, 3.0 CEUs

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.