Course Catalog 2007-2008

TUR-3306 OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE, 4 cr
Occupational Hygiene

Courses persons responsible
Markku Leppänen

Lecturers
Markku Leppänen

Implementations
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Lecture - 2 h/week - - - -
Exercise - 2 h/week - - - -
Exam  
(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
The effects of physical and chemical exposures. Prevention of harmful exposures.

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Physiological ill-effects of noise, vibration, radiation, thermal stress. Chemical hazards. Occupational diseases. Protective measures.       

Requirements for completing the course
An exam based on literature. Measururement visits to companies, individual reports based on these measurements.

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • An exam based on literature. Measururement visits to companies, individual reports based on these measurements.

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

    • Study material
    Type Name Auhor ISBN URL Edition, availability... Exam material Language
    Book Occupational Hygiene Harrington JM and Gardiner K     2nd edition, Oxford, Blackwell Science Ltd. 442 p. No  English 

    Prerequisites
    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Remarks

    The course is organized if enough students register.

    Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

    • - In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
    - In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc

  • Estimate as a percentage of the implementation of the course

    • - Contact teaching: 20 %
    - Distance learning: 20 %
    - Proportion of a student's independent study: 60 %

    Correspondence of content
    3104000 Occupational Hygiene

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    Last modified 29.05.2007
    Modified byHeli Kiviranta