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By: Shree1news, 06 FEB 2021
New Delhi:
The Indira Gandhi National Open University has launched a new Certificate Course in Environmental and Occupational Hazards. The new IGNOU Certificate course can be offered through the SWAYAM platform. The new Certificate course discusses natural hazards and disasters. The course additionally covers geological hazards, meteorological hazards, environmental hazards, bodily hazards, chemical hazards and occupational hazards.
“As part of the IGNOU’s responsibility as the National Coordinator for facilitating development of certificate/diploma courses in various disciplines on SWAYAM, MOOC(Massive Open Online Course) platform of the Government of India, the university has launched Certificate Course in Environmental and Occupational Hazards,” an official IGNOU statement read. As many as 105 courses are currently offered through the national open university’s SWAYAM portal.
The medium of instruction for the newly launched Certificate course in Environmental and Occupational Hazards can be English. Dr Sushmitha Baskar and Professor B Rupini could be the course instructors from IGNOU.
Certificate Course In Environmental And Occupational Hazards
Natural disaster is an event like earthquake, floods, landslides that adversely impacts the individuals both by damaging the property or by means of loss of life. This new course particulars on the varied environmental and occupational Hazards. The IGNOU certificate course covers a number of hazards together with geological, meteorological, environmental, physical, chemical and occupational.
Geological hazards, the place occasions like earthquake volcanic eruptions and landslides have been elaborated. Climate related hazards or coastal hazards have been defined below meteorological hazards. Environmental hazards covering aspects of physical, chemical and biological hazards are mentioned.
Explosives, flammable, radiation, heat and cold stern vibration, noise hazards have been defined in physical hazards. How a chemical could be hazardous to people and have detrimental health results are defined in chemical hazards. Hazards caused by biological agents such as microorganisms can pose a threat to the health of people.
The course additionally discusses occupational hazards. It offers with hazards posed by particular occupations corresponding to mining and construction, agriculture and allied sectors, hospital, and health centres and corporate sectors and the management of those hazards and the mitigation of the same has been defined.
Source: A-N
