BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Engineering & Technology

MODULE: Occupational Safety & Health

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 27 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

The field of occupational safety and health has undergone significant changes over the past decades. Some of the more prominent include the following: technological changes that have introduced new hazards in the workplace; new health and safety legislation; safety and health relation with productivity; costs and environmental pressure. All of these factors, when taken together, have made the job of the modern safety and health professional more challenging and more important than it has ever been. This program contains the latest information needed by people who will practice this profession in the age of global competition and rapid technological change.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

Hygiene & Safety

Occupational Toxicology

Academic Supervisor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

Hygiene & Safety

This course introduces the principles of industrial and community hygiene and safety. It examines the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of hazards to health and safety. It includes control methods, hygiene sampling equipment, and develops skills in occupational health and safety hazard recognition in a variety of cases.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Occupational Toxicology

This course explores occupational and industrial health hazards and toxic exposures. It examines the effects of exposure to chemical, physical, and biological agents, embracing the community and workplace environments. It considers current issues in human and environmental toxicology.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Ergonomics

Ergonomics that can provide us with more efficient and comfortable places in which to work and live. This is explored by considering body and work physiology, biomechanics, anthropometry, information processing and environmental factors, the effect of thermal factors, noise, vibration, and illumination.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Occupational Safety & Health

This course explores specific hazards associated with major industries. Machine guarding, electrical safety, systems safety analysis, materials handling, and working at heights are among the subjects covered. It examines methods of integrating safety and industrial hygiene programs with industrial operations. Philosophic issues related to industrial safety and health such as responsibility for safety, dependency on safe practice, and hierarchy of prevention are investigated.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Environmental Toxicology

This course presents the principles of environmental toxicology, including the major classes of toxicants, environmental movement and fate, toxicokinetics, biotransformation, toxicodynamics, factors influencing toxicity, mechanisms of toxic action and detoxication, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity, toxicity testing and evaluation, and risk assessment.

Instructor: Vicente Enrique Martín Olmos

Environmental Risks

This course examines and compares different types of environmental risks and hazards from natural disasters (tornados, earthquakes and meteorite impacts) to acute and chronic health effects caused by exposure to radiation and toxic substances. It emphasizes the principles controlling the hazardous phenomena and develops methods for making reasoned assessments of the threats impact to health and wealth.

Instructor: Vicente Enrique Martín Olmos

Environmental Health

This course examines the relationship of people to their environment, how it affects their physical well-being and what they can do to influence the quality of the environment and to enhance their health. It considers environmental health control programs, agencies and regulatory process.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Health Program Planning

This course presents a systems approach in the planning of effective health services to meet the needs of communities. Plans include effective and culturally appropriate implementation strategies, managing planning process, work plans, stakeholders, negotiation, and working with groups.

Instructor: John Ogony Arudo

Toxicological Risk Assesment

This course deals with the processes and techniques for toxicological risk assessment: problem definition, dose response characterization, exposure characterization, risk assessment, and risk management decision making. Topics include identification and characterization of specific classes of toxic agents, mechanisms of action of these agents at the molecular and cellular level, and risk assessment and regulatory issues.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.

Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.