Course Detail

COURSE OUTLINE:

DAY 1:

Unit 1: Introduction to Industrial Hygiene

1. What is industrial hygiene?
2. Industrial hygiene management systems.
3. Occupational exposure standards.
4. Overview of the types of health risks.
5. Occupational diseases and illness conditions.

Unit 2: Understanding Health Risks

1. Methods of identifying health risks.
2. Biological risks.
3. Chemical risks.
4. Physical risks.
5. Radiation risks (ionising and non-ionising).

DAY 2:

Unit 3: Industrial Toxicology

1. Exposure routes of hazardous substances.
2. Health effects and classification of hazardous substances.
3. Toxic, Irritant, Asphyxiant, and Anaesthetic.
4. Hepatoxic, Nephrotoxic and Neurotoxic agents.
5. Blood & Lung damaging agents.

Unit 4: Measuring and Evaluating Health Risks

1. Recognition of potential health risks.
2. Health surveillance programs.
3. Health risk assessment reviews.
4. Methods of controlling health risks.
5. Determining health risk control methods.

DAY 3:

Unit 5: Monitoring & Recording Health Risk Controls

1. Biological monitoring and medical surveillance.
2. Hearing conservation programs.
3. Occupational diseases and illness condition prevention programs.
4. Learning from incidents of ill health.
5. Step-by-step guide for managing health risks.

Unit 6: Strategic Management

1. Strategic management in healthcare
2. Developing a mission and vision statement.
3. Strategic Management steps.
4. Developing a marketing strategy.
5. Positioning the hospital for quality.

DAY 4:

Unit 7: Hospital Organisational Structure

1. Understanding the US and other global organisational structures.
2. Managing and leading in complex organisations.
3. Teamwork in healthcare settings.
4. Groups Exercise.
5. Groups Discussion.

Unit 8: Financial Management and Forecasting in the Healthcare Industry

1. The organisational structure and responsibilities of hospital cost centres.
2. Department and individual cost centres.
3. Evaluation methods.
4. The convergence of cost accounting.
5. Financial accounting & Insurance.

DAY 5:

Unit 9: Hospital Human Resource Management

1. Hospital strategic human resource management.
2. Developing core values and human resource management.
3. Understanding human resource management systems.
4. Developing human resource incentives.
5. Control mechanisms.

Unit 10 : Medical Service Quality Management and Improvement

1. Quality of medical services management.
2. Performance tracking and incentives.
3. Healthcare quality management methods and common tools.
4. Emergency preparedness and crisis management.
5. Course Wrap-Up.