Occupational Hygiene and Industrial Sanitation

Major: Civil Security
Code of subject: 6.263.00.O.025
Credits: 4.00
Department: Civil safety
Lecturer: Ph.D., docent Yurii Kit
Semester: 4 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: After completion of a course, a specialist must know: • the main legislative and regulatory acts on industrial sanitation and occupational safety and health • structure, tasks, powers of the bodies of sanitary supervision, enterprises, public organizations, trade unions, labor collectives regarding sanitary and epidemiological well-being • characteristics of certain harmful factors of the production environment, their valuation and research • methods for assessing potential hazards and risks in accordance with sanitary and hygiene indicators for the technological process, technological unit, equipment, production environment • methods of calculating the main steps and means for improving the safety of the production environment, reducing the level of harmful production factors A specialist must be able to: • to determine the way of influence of such factors as ultra-, infrasound, ionizing, laser, infrared radiation, electromagnetic field to the workers • to establish the physiological and hygienic features of the work of various professions in modern production • to evaluate conformity of sanitary-hygienic working conditions with standards • To substantiate rational methods of normalization of working conditions in a concrete production situation • analyze working conditions according to harmful factors • to evaluate the patterns of occurrence and mechanisms of formation of negative states like fatigue, monotony, hypodynamia, neuro-emotional stress, overstrain • methods of production training, professional selection and career counseling • to develop modern scientifically substantiated recommendations regarding the construction of optimal modes of work and rest, organization of equipment, workplaces, organization of technologies, prevention of adverse effects of the production environment, neuro-emotional strain, hypodynamia, fatigue, etc.
Required prior and related subjects: Life safety Physics Biology Chemistry
Summary of the subject: Basic principles of industrial sanitation. Goal and main objectives of the subject. Principles of occupational hygiene. Physiology of labor as a section of general physiology. Areas of research of labor's physiology. Physiological evaluation of traditional and newest types of labor organization. Physiological evaluation of traditional and advanced technologies and modern production equipment. Regulatory provision of industrial sanitation. Assessment of sanitary and hygienic measures in the design, construction, development of new technological processes. State sanitary and hygienic expertise. Characteristics of working conditions. Criteria for evaluating working conditions at work. Labor intensity. Factors of the production process. Physical load. Characteristics of the conditions and nature of work. Classification of work by intensity and severity. Occupational diseases and poisoning, methods of prevention them. Sanitary-hygienic control at the enterprise, organization, institution. Medical examinations. Means of protection of workers. Means of individual and collective protection of workers Physical hazards. Identification. Normalization. Protection. Chemical hazards. Identification. Normalization. Protection. Requirements for industrial lighting Sanitary and household maintenance of workers General sanitary and hygienic requirements for the placement of enterprises, to industrial premises.
Assessment methods and criteria: Current control (40%): written reports from a practical end laboratory works Final control (60% ): Exam
Recommended books: 1. Охорона праці (гігієна праці та виробнича санітарія): навчальний посібник/ І.П. Пістун, І.І. Кельман, В.М. Багнюк, та ін.; За ред. І.П. Пістуна. – Львів: «Тріада плюс», 2011. – Ч.1. – 616с. 2. Питання професійної гігієни в системі охорони праці: (Інформ. – аналіт.довід.)/ В.В. Піддубний, О.І. Стовбун. – К.: Логос, 2004. – 195с. 3. Гігієна праці/ А. М. Шевченко, С. В. Алексєєв, Г. О. Гончарук, М. І. Веремєй; за ред. А. М. Шевченка. - К. : Вища шк., 1993. - 583 с. 4. Бобров, О. М. /Производственная санитария и охрана труда : учеб. пособие. Ч. 2 / О. М. Бобров, Л. П. Керб ; Киев. ин-т народного хоз-ва. – К., 1976. - 94с. 5. Пістун, І. П. Охорона праці (психологія безпеки): навч. посіб. для студентів ВНЗ / І. П. Пістун, А. П. Березовецький, А. Ю. Трач; - Львів : Тріада плюс, 2010. - 476 с.