Industrial Hygiene Advanced Certificate
The 15-Credit Advanced Certificate in Industrial Hygiene gives you the necessary training to ensure workplace safety and prevent potential hazards. The program offers a multi-disciplinary approach that allows you to get a broad view of workplace safety management. After completing the program, you’ll be ready to work as an industrial hygienist in both the public and the private sectors. Industrial, corporate, public service, academic and medical work environments all need properly trained industrial hygienists.
What You’ll Learn in the Industrial Hygiene Program
The Industrial Hygiene Certificate program will train you to:
- Use strict scientific methodology to determine potential hazards and evaluate toxic workplace exposures.
- Assess and control physical, chemical, biological or environmental hazards in the workplace or community.
- Recognize, evaluate and control environmental workplace stressors that could lead to illness or injury.
- Recognize and communicate how workplace stressors may impact worker well-being and productivity.
Industrial Hygiene Certification Requirements
Completion of the Advanced Certificate in Industrial Hygiene will fulfill the coursework in industrial hygiene required for Board for Global EHS Credentialing® (BGC®).
Successful completion of this certificate also helps prepare you to sit for certification exams given by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) and the Council on Certification of Health, Environmental and Safety Technologists (CCHEST).
If you’re planning on taking an Industrial Hygiene Certification exam, be sure to consult the organization’s full exam requirements.
What Can You Do with an Industrial Hygiene Certification?
After ABIH certification, you can qualify for roles as a Certified Industrial Hygienist. An industrial hygienist evaluates workplace safety and measures the toxicity and hazardous risk present in the environment.
In many industries employees work with or are exposed to toxic substances on a daily basis, so safety standards need to be in place and monitored. An Industrial Hygienist might assess ventilation systems to make sure toxic particles are filtered out of the air or determine how much exposure to a chemical at work is safe.
An industrial hygienist can be employed on-site at a production plant or other facility, or work for public health agencies or outside firms. By training employees in proper safety and addressing risks, industrial hygienists help companies minimize costly mistakes and protect their workers.
How to Apply
If you're a new student, not enrolled in the NYMC MPH, you'll apply through the School of Public Health Application Services, SOPHAS.
If you're currently enrolled at NYMC, please visit the registrar's office on the portal and complete the form there.
Industrial Hygiene Certificate Curriculum
Required Courses (15 Credits):
Environmental Influences on Human Health
This survey of the major environmental determinants of human health covers physical, chemical and biological sources of exposure; routes of exposure in humans; etiology of environmental disease and mortality; and the complexities of environmental public policy. Topics include airborne pollution, contaminated water and food, solid and hazardous waste, and risk assessment as a tool for regulation. Students have the opportunity to tour a local public works facility.
Fundamentals of Toxicology
This course stresses basic concepts essential to the understanding of the action of exogenous chemical agents on biological systems. Principles underlying the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of chemicals are discussed. Toxic kinetics, specific classes of toxic responses, and experimental methods used to assess toxicity are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on developing the skills necessary to approach toxicology as a quantitative science.
Industrial Hygiene
Designed to familiarize professionals with the methods used by industrial hygienists in the prevention of occupational diseases, this course covers such topics as the physical form of air contaminants, air sampling and analysis, engineering controls, and the preparation of survey protocols.
Safety Engineering and Occupational Health
This course focuses on current aspects of safety engineering and occupational health, with emphasis on safety program management and evaluation. Course content is directed toward areas covered by the Certified Safety Professional Board examination.
Exposure Assessment and Monitoring Metrics
Exposure assessment is an essential tool for understanding, managing, controlling, and reducing occupational health risks in large and small workplaces. Data from exposure assessments are used in improving conditions in the workplace as well as in toxicology, epidemiology, and engineering studies. While important gains have been made in creating new methods and detecting even lower exposures for some substances and agents, numerous important challenges remain. For example, the benefits of exposure assessment are still not realized in many workplaces. Many substances, agents, and stressors lack exposure methods. Exposure data are not currently aggregated on a national basis to support improved priority setting for occupational health. This course focuses on existing techniques as well as the development of new approaches for the measurement and control of the same four broad stressor categories, chemical, physical, biological and ergonomic stressors in public and private workplaces and environments.
