✓Understand industrial hygiene foundations, ethics, regulations, hazard types, information resources, and the full exposure risk management process.
✓Explain lung anatomy, breathing, respiratory defenses, particle deposition, pulmonary impairment, and key pulmonary function tests.
✓Understand skin structure, functions, exposure pathways, occupational dermatoses, diagnosis, compensation, prevention, and control.
✓Learn ear anatomy, hearing disorders, noise effects, hearing measurement, impairment evaluation, and OSHA hearing conservation requirements.
✓Understand eye anatomy, visual performance, eye disorders, workplace hazards, first aid, protection standards, and vision conservation.
✓Apply industrial toxicology, dose-response, exposure limits, biological monitoring, and toxicological evidence to workplace health decisions.
✓Assess gases, vapors, and solvents through properties, exposure factors, monitoring methods, common hazards, and control measures.
✓Understand particulate behavior, sampling, metals, silica, asbestos, nanomaterials, biological monitoring, and high-efficiency filtration.
✓Evaluate industrial noise using sound principles, surveys, audiometry, control programs, and occupational noise exposure standards.
✓Understand ionizing radiation types, sources, biological effects, monitoring instruments, basic safety factors, and control programs.
✓Understand nonionizing radiation, EM fields, RF, optical radiation, lasers, lighting hazards, measurement methods, and controls.
✓Evaluate heat and cold stress, acclimatization, thermal comfort, performance effects, and interactions with other toxic hazards.
✓Apply ergonomics to work design, biomechanics, manual handling, workstation layout, fatigue, and musculoskeletal risk reduction.
✓Recognize biological hazards, perform biosafety risk assessment, evaluate compliance, and apply sampling, standards, and controls.
✓Perform exposure evaluation through walkthroughs, process review, sampling strategy, calculations, statistics, and compliance decisions.
✓Select air sampling methods, media, pumps, calibration techniques, and recordkeeping practices for gases, vapors, and particulates.
✓Use direct-reading instruments for gases, vapors, and particulates, and judge calibration, performance, cost, training, and portability.
✓Apply the hierarchy of controls to design, verify, and improve engineering, administrative, and PPE-based exposure controls.
✓Understand local exhaust ventilation principles, system components, airflow, pressure relationships, evaluation, and improvement.
✓Design and assess dilution ventilation systems, airflow calculations, applications, limitations, and performance measurement.
✓Understand indoor air quality, HVAC systems, ventilation standards, troubleshooting, thermal comfort, and IAQ control strategies.
✓Select, fit, use, and manage respirators through program administration, fit testing, maintenance, and OSHA requirements.
✓Manage PPE programs, including selection, fit, training, maintenance, and protection for eyes, face, head, hands, feet, and clothing.
✓Understand the industrial hygienist’s role, competencies, career paths, professional development, and workplace contribution.
✓Understand the safety professional’s role in inspections, investigations, training, risk management, and safety systems.
✓Understand how the occupational and environmental health clinician team supports prevention, surveillance, care, and return to work.
✓Understand the occupational medicine physician’s history, credentials, practice settings, scope, and preplacement evaluations.
✓Understand the occupational health nurse’s scope, standards, prevention roles, service models, and outcome evaluation.
✓Build and manage an industrial hygiene program through policy, assessment, participation, documentation, evaluation, and resources.
✓Understand integrated EHS programs, shared responsibilities, regulatory drivers, resource models, and people-profit-planet thinking.
✓Understand employer duties, inspections, health standards, worker rights, and the roles of OSHA, NIOSH, EPA, and state agencies.
✓Understand GHS, REACH, control banding, hazard communication, and international occupational safety and health systems.
✓Trace OSHA history from the pre-OSH Act era to recent developments, major transitions, and the agency’s evolving role.