REDVEY UNIVERSITY · PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM
Occupational Health and Safety
Program Overview
Providing a healthy, safe, risk-free, accident- and injury-free work environment is essential to maintaining workers’ health and safety. This program provides knowledge and skills to analyze, monitor and control potential sources of danger in the workplace, identify hazardous materials and their environmental effects, and understand the procedures needed to protect workers.
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Program Content
Unit 1: Occupational Health and Safety Department
- Principles of health and safety management
- Measure health and safety performance
- Key elements of health and safety systems
- The importance of human factors in reducing accidents
Unit 2: Workplace factors, hazardous substances and environmental health
- Overall aspects of occupational health
- Identify the most important hazardous factors in the workplace
- Radiation: origins, types, damage, prevention, environmental impact and control
- Types of hazardous waste, sources, handling and disposal
- Air-quality assessment and environmental pollution problems
- Sources of emissions and their contribution to ambient air pollution
- Physical, biological and chemical risks
- Risk analysis, assessment and preventive measures
Unit 3: Safety of work equipment and working environment
- Creating a healthy and clean working environment
- Firefighting and alarms
- Safety systems for storage and transport of hazardous materials
- Storage, circulation and processing of hazardous materials
- Safety of equipment, tools and machinery
- Electrical safety
- Safe handling of hazardous machinery
- Personal protective equipment at work
- Emergency plans and emergency operating rooms
Unit 4: Application of occupational health and safety
- Duties and functions of occupational security and safety systems management
- Inspection of safety procedures and how to identify them