Industrial Hygiene

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Gain an overview of occupational health hazards, including how they can be recognized, evaluated and controlled. Designed for those responsible for employee safety, this course discusses how industries are regulated and how to apply industrial hygiene principles in the workplace. Additionally, instructors focus on the topics most likely to confront safety managers today, such as indoor air quality, noise protection and mold. This course provides a basic understanding of industrial hygiene that will allow you to communicate safety principles to employees, perform some environmental evaluation and evaluate independent industrial hygiene consultants. This is a required course for the Workplace Health and Safety Certificate Program, the Intensive Certificate Program in Health and Safety and the Health and Safety Trainer Specialized Studies Program.

Instructor(s):

Jeffrey Hicks, M.P.H., C.I.H., is a principal scientist with Exponent, Inc., in Menlo Park. An industrial hygienist with more than 25 years of multidisciplinary experience, Hicks' project and managerial expertise encompasses indoor air quality, mold/fungal investigations, illness cluster studies, building ventilation, contamination of the built environment, chemical exposure assessments, air pollution emissions and modeling, and evaluation of physical agent hazards.
Renee Kalmes, M.S., C.I.H., is a senior managing scientist at Exponent, Inc., in Oakland, California. Kalmes has 25 years of industrial hygiene experience, with an emphasis on exposures to agents identified as potential carcinogens and neurotoxins in both occupational and public settings. She conducts health risks assessments related to a wide variety of chemicals of concern and environments.
Sheila McCarthy, M.P.H., C.I.H., is a managing scientist at Exponent, Inc., in Oakland, California, where she conducts indoor air quality evaluations, and specializes in dose reconstruction studies. McCarthy also performs evaluations, pesticide exposure studies, dust and nanoparticle exposure assessments.
Martin Suen, M.S., C.I.H., is a senior scientist at Exponent, Inc., in Oakland, California, where he conducts historic exposure reconstruction studies, evaluates water intrusion and mold in the built environment, and manages toxic tort litigation matters. Suen also develops and manages large and complex databases related to historic exposures to dusts and chemical agents.

When:

March 2-5: Tues.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where:

Sutter Square Galleria, 2901 K St, Sacramento, CA

Directions:

Map

Fee:

$785.00 Includes textbook, course materials and morning refreshments.

Special Discount fee:

$706.50 for organizations enrolling three or more people at the same time in the same course. All registrations must be submitted at the same time and fees paid with one check, credit card or purchase order.