Concepts in occupational health
Organisation of occupational health services (OHS)
Roles and tasks of the medical surveillance section and of the risk management section
Occupational diseases
Work injuries
Medical inspection
Part 2 : Risk analysis in businesses
Industrial visits in enterprises or organisations
Learning outcomes of the course :
Part 1 : Legislation and administration
- Aims of the occupational health care
- Legal bases of the occupational physician activities
- Hazard and risk assessment methodologies
Part 2 : Risk analysis in businesses
- Discovering the large variety of industrial and service activities and their associated risks for the exposed workers
- Learning to analyse and assess working conditions while applying a step by step approach to assess hazards and occupational risks
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Recommended or required readings :
Part 1 : Legislation and administration
Course written support on request at STES secretary (see contacts)
Assessment methods and criteria :
Part 1 : Legislation and administration
Oral examination with access to the course edited support
Part 2 : Risk analysis in businesses
After each visit, a written report must be delivered within 15 days.
Each report is assessed and given a cotation.
The module cotation is obtained as the arithmetic mean of the various reports cotations.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Contacts :
Part 1 : Legislation and administration
Philippe MAIRIAUX, lecturer
Santé au Travail et Education pour la Santé
Tour de Pathologie (bât. B23), Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liège
email: ph.mairiaux@ulg.ac.be