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Course unit details:
Occupational Exposure Control
Unit code | POPH60161 |
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Credit rating | 15 |
Unit level | FHEQ level 7 – master's degree or fourth year of an integrated master's degree |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
This unit evaluates exposure control strategies, including equipment and techniques used in controlling exposure to hazards. The unit examines various practice-based topics including the role of ventilation, containment, behavioural factors and PPE in the workplace. A range of work settings are evaluated with analysis of key issues in exposure control for example, control of dermal exposures and implementation of effective dermal risk assessment, communicable disease and infection control in workplaces..
Aims
This unit will introduce students to the principles and concepts of good control practice and enable them to develop strategies and reasonably practicable controls as part of integrated occupational health and hygiene programmes to minimise the risks from exposure to hazardous substances in the workplace. The unit builds on the stages of anticipation, recognition and evaluation of exposures, examining the ways in which the exposures can be controlled. Evaluation of control strategies for various hazards and the techniques available to develop health surveillance system in a variety of different workplaces are covered extensively.
Learning outcomes
The learning outcomes intend to allow students to:
- Develop critical understanding of process control and the need for judgement in setting priorities.
- Use evidence-based practice to examine the technical and legal factors involved in process control.
- Critically analyse risks to health from hazardous substances in the workplace and apply the principles of good control practice and hierarchy of controls to identify, develop and implement reasonably practicable control strategies and integrated control regimes.
- Identify and specify reasonably practicable engineering measures to control exposure to hazardous substances.
- Identify and specify organisational and management measures as part of a control regime.
- Select appropriate personal protective equipment to minimise exposure to hazardous substances.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of control measures, programmes and strategies.
- Make independent decisions that are based on evidence and research in relation to behavioural factors, ergonomics and cost benefit analyses.
Category of Outcome | On completion, students should be able to: |
Knowledge and understanding |
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Intellectual skills |
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Practical skills |
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Transferable skills and personal qualities |
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Syllabus
Process Control Strategy
- Ventilation
- Containment
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Human Behaviours
- Dermal Exposure and Risk Assessment
- Communicable Disease and Infection Control
Teaching and learning methods
Learning and teaching will take the form of online materials supported by online synchronous lectures, webinars. group discussion, tutorials, synchronous workshops and practical experience days where relevant or possible.
Blackboard and Zoom/Teams will be used for course materials including group discussions, announcements and updating of content, relevant lecture slides and additional reading, written example sheets and for online formative assessments.
Employability skills
- Analytical skills
- Students will have an understanding of process control and judgement in setting priorities.
- Group/team working
- Patchwork assessment includes group and team work to generate options and develop solutions
- Leadership
- Students will present options and solutions for remedying complex problems
- Project management
- Students will understand the influence of a wide range of factors when negotiating with others within the field of occupational hygiene.
- Oral communication
- Group work discussion
- Problem solving
- Students will know the range of techniques that can be used for developing an effective health surveillance system in a variety of different workplaces.
- Written communication
- Students present a written evaluation of findings and recommendations
Assessment methods
Description | Weighting | Length |
Patchwork assessment: A series of assignments that may be written or oral to develop knowledge and evaluation skills in Workplace Exposure Control | 100% | 3,500 words |
Feedback methods
- Assignment feedback is available to all students.
- Feedback on summative assessments is provided following ratification of results by the Examination Board.
- Two web-conference tutorials involving small group teaching provide formative feedback to students.
Recommended reading
- American Industrial Hygiene Association. The occupational Environment: its evaluation, control and management 3rd ed. AIHA Press 2010. ISBN 9781935082156.
- BS EN 529:2005. Respiratory protective devices. Recommendations for selection, use, care and maintenance. Guidance document. BSI 2005. ISBN 0580469085.
- BS EN 374-3:2003. Protective gloves against chemicals and micro-organisms. Determination of resistance to permeation by chemicals. BSI 2003. ISBN 9780580678561.
- BS 7184:2001. Selection, use and maintenance of chemical protective clothing. Guidance. BSI 2001. ISBN 0580386147.
- Cherrie J, Howie R, Semple S. Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work 4th ed. Wiley-Blackwell 2010. ISBN-10: 1405159626, ISBN-13: 978-1405159623.
- COSHH Essentials: HSG 193. HSE Books 1999. ISBN 0717624218.
- Gardiner K, Harrington JM. Occupational hygiene. Blackwell Publishing 2005. ISBN 1405106212.
- Gawkrodger DJ. An illustrated colour text: Dermatology. Basic Principles: Churchill Livingstone 1992.
- HSE. HSG 258 Controlling airborne contaminants at work: A guide to local exhaust ventilation (LEV). HSE Books 2008. ISBN 9780717662982.
- HSE. INDG408 Clearing the air: a simple guide to buying and using local exhaust ventilation (LEV). HSE Books 2008. ISBN 9780717663019.
- Lunt J, Lee R, Carter L. Systematic review of preventative behavioural interventions for dermal and respiratory occupational health hazards. HSL 2007/36.
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Seminars | 12 |
Tutorials | 6 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 132 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Anne Clayson | Unit coordinator |
Additional notes
If you have any questions regarding the content of this unit, please contact the Course Unit Leader, Anne Clayson, via anne.clayson@manchester.ac.uk.
If you have any other queries, please contact the programmes team via shs.programmes@manchester.ac.uk