Advancing Methods for Worker Exposure Evaluation and Judgements

Class description

The occupational and environmental health and safety professional uses personal judgement, qualitative information and quantitative data to evaluate worker exposures to airborne contaminants, and other agents. New tools and strategies are emerging to improve professional judgment in health-related exposure assessments. This course will explain why and how it is feasible to apply multiple approaches and new tools to make judgments with a higher degree of precision and accuracy. The instructors have developed curriculum to augment and expand the concepts identified in the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s course entitled “Improving Exposure Judgements: An Introduction to Industrial Hygiene Statistics.”

For effective exposure assessment, an industrial hygienist needs to exercise sound professional judgment.  It is critical for the practitioner to have skills in how to interpret exposure monitoring data accurately and classify exposure levels into appropriate risk categories based on statistical analysis and accurate exposure judgment. This course highlights how to provide a well-documented rational for exposure assessments, especially when data is limited or ambiguous.

Advancing Methods for Worker Exposure Evaluation and Judgements

March 11 & 13, 2025 8:30am - 12:00pm Pacific Time

Online, Instructor-led

Audience: Industrial hygienists, safety and health professionals, students in safety and health-related academic programs, environmental health and safety directors, safety committee members, risk managers, and safety and health consultants.

Course Objectives: 

• Review the strategies for current workplace exposure assessments

• Define the studies to support why we need to advance exposure assessments

• Describe why modeling tools are necessary to support exposure evaluation and judgement

• Explain how to collect, expand and build objective data to provide guidance for exposure judgments and sampling strategies

• Identify case studies using new approaches for workplace characterization and exposure groups