Description
Course length: 5 days
Course description
Infectious diseases are a key concern and pose a risk for workers in any organization in the oil and gas industry. Every year,
thousands of workers in the oil and gas industry are affected by the most common types of infectious diseases including tuberculosis, influenza, pneumonia, zoonoses, tick-borne diseases and HIV/AIDS. The course is prepared to offer insight into the infectious diseases affecting the petroleum industry. The course majorly examines the methods and procedures.
Who Should Attend
- Professionals with responsibilities of health management
- All employees from the petroleum sector who wish to learn more on infectious diseases in oil and gas
- Anyone wishing to understand the methods and ways or control and mitigation of infectious diseases
- Individuals involved in health assessment, supervisors and personnel in the health control section
What you will learn
By the end of the course, the participants will be able to:
- Have a solid understanding of the common infectious diseases and be able to employ the procedures and measures to control or contain the transmission of infectious diseases
- List and describe some of the major infectious diseases of concern in the petroleum sector
- Define who is at risk and the modes of transmission
- Identify mitigation measures to minimize the risk
Course Outline
- Introduction to infectious diseases
- Common causes of infectious diseases in the oil and gas sector
- Detection and control of infectious systems
- Applications of surveillance and monitoring systems to
- The risk factors are known to enhance emergence and transmission of infectious diseases in the petroleum sector
- Methods to contain and control the infectious diseases
- The emerging global infectious diseases
