What the training covers
This is the foundation course in occupational health — it moves your team from “the air seems fine” to the discipline industrial hygienists actually practice: anticipate, recognize, evaluate, control.
- The hazard classes. Chemical vapors, gases, and particulates; physical agents including noise, heat, and dust; and biological agents — the exposures that do their damage over years, not shifts.
- Exposure limits. OSHA permissible exposure limits (PELs) under 29 CFR 1910.1000 and 29 CFR 1926.55, ACGIH threshold limit values (TLVs), action levels, and what an 8-hour time-weighted average means on a real schedule.
- Routes of entry. Inhalation, ingestion, skin and eye absorption, and injection — mapped to the tasks in your operation that open each one.
- Sampling and monitoring concepts. What air sampling, noise dosimetry, and direct-reading instruments measure, when monitoring is triggered, and how to read the results that come back from the lab.
- The hierarchy of controls. Elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and PPE — applied to occupational health, where PPE is the last line, never the plan.
Who needs industrial hygiene training?
Anyone whose work involves chemical, physical, or biological exposures — and everyone responsible for managing them. OSHA holds employers to permissible exposure limits under 29 CFR 1910.1000 in general industry and 29 CFR 1926.55 in construction, and no crew stays under a limit it doesn’t know exists.
In practice, that means safety committee members who review incidents and exposures, supervisors and foremen who assign the work, and employees in environments where the hazards are measured in micrograms and decibels rather than feet and pounds. California employers answer to Cal/OSHA’s airborne contaminants standard, 8 CCR 5155, whose PELs frequently run stricter than federal Table Z. Substance-specific standards raise the stakes further — occupational noise under 29 CFR 1910.95, respirable crystalline silica, lead — each with its own monitoring, medical surveillance, and training triggers that someone on your team must be able to spot.
Delivered on your site, built around your exposures
Instructor-led sessions run at your facility or jobsite, on your schedule, using your processes, your SDS library, and your monitoring history as the curriculum — never from boilerplate. A sanitation crew working chlorinated compounds gets a different session than a fab shop managing welding fume.
Prefer on-demand? The course is also available online — approximately 30 minutes, with a printable student manual and a downloadable certificate of completion, documented for your training records.
Crews covered by OSHA’s silica rule pair this course with silica competent person training, and teams entering tanks and vaults extend it with confined space training, where atmospheric hazards do their worst work. If you haven’t measured what your people breathe, start with a workplace safety audit and exposure evaluation so the training targets the exposures you actually have.
Ready to put names on the invisible hazards? Request a quote or schedule a session, or call 213.290.3013.