Indusrial Hygine & Safety
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Indusrial Hygine & Safety Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Indusrial Hygine & Safety (subject code 3711810) as prescribed for EM · Semester 1 divides the course into 9 units, covering 67 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3711810)Unit 1 Introduction
- Industrial Hygiene: Historical Aspects
- Benefits of Industrial Hygiene With Reference to Environmental Management
- Industrial safety: Safety and its significance
- safety management
- various terms related to safety
- safety organization
- safety audit
- Health & Safety (EHS) : Purpose
- Basic Concept
- Role of Industrial Hygienist
- Safety Officer
- Environmental Engineer/ Officer
- Factory Medical Officer and Work Coordination Between them
- Introduction of ACGIH
- NIOSH, ILO, EPA Etc, Industrial Hygiene Survey Work
- Monitoring & Preparation of Database
Unit 2 Work Environment Monitoring
- Type of Monitoring
- Types of air samplings
- sampling instruments
- Sampling Analysis Methods
- Exposure Assessment Monitoring
- Personal Exposure Monitoring
- Biological Monitoring
- Knowledge of Monitoring and Analytical Instrumentation
- Significance of Threshold Limit Value, TLV, STEL
- Ceiling Limit
Unit 3 Control of Health Hazards
- Classification of Health Hazards
- Hierarchy of Control
- Engineering Control
- Administrative Control
- Personal Protective Equipments (PPE)
Unit 4 Industrial Ventilation
- Introduction to Ventilation & General Principal of Ventilation
- General Industrial Ventilation
- Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) Systems
- Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC)
- Testing of Ventilation System
Unit 5 Ergonomics 4 10
- Content Total Hrs % Weightage Introduction of Ergonomics and Its Constituents
- OSHA’S ergonomics guideline
- Worksite analysis program for ergonomics
- hazard prevention and control: Hand Tool and Their Use, Work Station Design
- Machine Controls and Display
- Medical management program
- ergonomics problem solving strategies
Unit 6 Hazards Identification, Assessment And Control Techniques
- Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Techniques
- Major Accident Hazard (MAH) Controls
- Preliminary hazard analysis
- Failure mode effect analysis
- Fault tree analysis
- Even tree analysis
Unit 7 Physical Aspect of Work Environment
- Assessment/Effects & Control of Noise
- Heat Stress
- Poor Illumination
- Non-Ionization and Ionization
Unit 8 Occupational Health And Diseases
- Route Of Entry Of Toxic Substance Into Human Body
- Occupational diseases
- ways to reduce risk of occupational diseases
- measures for occupational health and safety
- Occupational diseases due to Chemical Agents
- Physical Agents
- Biological Agent
- Psychological Agents
- Physiological Agents
- Ergonomical Agents Etc.
- Occupational Health and Hygiene Services At Work Place: Occupational Health and Hygiene Centre at Workplace
- Ambulance Van and First Aid, Factory Medical Officer
- Introduction to Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Unit 9 Legislation On Industrial Safety And Occupational Health
- Factory’s Act, Miner’s Act, Workmen Compensation Act, Other Acts Related to Safety And Occupational Health and Its Integration With Environment Act
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