Course Length: 5 days Course Description

Employees in the oil and gas industry face the risk of exposure to
noise, vibration, dusts, biological agents, solvents, ionizing radiation,
fumes, working in compressed air and other substances hazardous to health. Health
surveillance and monitoring is, therefore, critical to ensure health checks,
screening, procedures, assessments and biological monitoring are carried out to
workers in the oil and gas sector in a specific occupational exposure. Health
surveillance ensures that ill health effects are identified and detected at
workplace as early as possible so as counteractive measure can be taken. The
health surveillance and monitoring course will build a practical experience
among the workers in the petroleum sectors, more specifically assist
organizations to put in place the best health and monitoring systems,
procedures, assessments, screening methods and ways to better the health of the
employees by minimizing the risks.

What you will Learn

• Understanding the aspects of health
  surveillance and monitoring in the petroleum sector
• Implementation of health
  surveillance and monitoring systems for identification of ill health effects at
  an early stage to better introduce preventive and control measures.
• Identification of health aspects
  and agents that require health surveillance and monitoring in the oil and gas industry.
• Highlighting the gaps and the control
  measures, thereby providing feedback for the betterment of health surveillance and monitoring.
• The methods applied in health surveillance and monitoring
• Understand the impact of health effects and the use
  of protective equipment
• Methods to eliminate and reduce the risk posed by
  hazardous substances
• The process of conducting workplace monitoring and surveillance

Who should Attend

• All the health and safety personnel
•  Facility engineers, operations managers and design engineers
• Anyone who needs a general understanding of health
  monitoring and surveillance
• Personnel for organizations
  offering services on monitoring and surveillance systems in the petroleum sector
• All personnel involved in
  implementation of health assessment, risk assessment and monitoring plans

Course Outline

• What is health surveillance and monitoring with
  respect to the petroleum industry
• Identification hazardous materials and substances,
  sources and safety solutions
• Identification the ill health
  effects faced by workers in the oil sector and the communities around the
  petroleum facilities
• Description of the various systems
  in place to ensure effective health surveillance and monitoring in the oil and
  gas industry (health and surveillance systems
  in oil and gas).
• Gaps within health surveillance and monitoring in the oil and gas industry in a global scale and in Kenya
• The role of employers on health and
  safety matters and participation in air monitoring and health surveillance programs
• The importance of incorporation of
  monitoring and surveillance systems in any project implementation plan