This course describes the application of environmental, biological and public health principles to; the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control, reduction and prevention of occupation-related adverse health effects such as chemical, physical, biological and ergonomic hazards; administrative and engineering control strategies for occupational hazards and control strategies for occupational problems including primary, secondary and tertiary interventions.
It will also focus on the epidemiology of diseases associated with industrial and other occupational exposures and will provide a basic knowledge of the principles and methods of occupational epidemiology, with emphasis on pragmatic issues in the collection, compilation and analysis of data from epidemiologic studies in the workplace.