Toxicology

Course Toxicology deals with the effects of hazardous chemicals, mainly of anthropogenic origin, on human health and with the principles of risk management in this field. It focuses mainly on occupational and environmental toxicology and addresses both acute toxic effects, important in the event of incidents and accidents, and chronic effects associated with long-term exposures in labour processes and the environment. The course will enable students to understand the issues of industrial and environmental toxicology, i.e. dangerous properties, typical dose-effect relationships, exposure scenarios and exposure determination and risk characterization related to different types of toxicity. Another part of the subject is an introduction to the principles of risk management of toxic substances.