The MSc in Occupational Safety and Health at YU provides students with advanced knowledge and skills to identify hazards, evaluate risks and recommend control methods in different situations. Multidisciplinary in nature, the program equips students with high-level theoretical and practical training, including the fundamentals of engineering, psychology, sociology and health sciences.
Students are able to define and explore their specific area of interest for research and master’s thesis. Graduates receive full recognition for registration as Consultants for External Services for Provision of Preventive and Protective Services for Occupational Safety and Health issues (EXYPP).
Aims to develop professionals in the field of occupational health and safety (OHS) who are able to develop OHS systems and research workplace OHS issues.
On completion of the program it is expected that students should be able to: design and implement an occupational health and safety management system that reflects the OHS needs of an organisation; critically review the risk management processes that have been developed for a workplace and/or industry including the characterisation of incident-investigation processes identifying issues in specific industries/workplaces; critically review and synthesise the factors that influence the application of occupational health and safety legislation in the workplace; synthesise the potential impacts of hazards according to type and predict when a hazard may become a risk; use research skills to assess the implementation of safe design in relation to controlling potential impacts on people, plant and/or the environment; undertake and report on a workplace-based research project; and demonstrate professional skills which include making verbal and written arguments in support of workplace safety and health issues.
Workplace safety and worker health is increasingly significant in tackling wider societal issues around morbidity, early mortality, and the influences of lifestyle on individuals and communities.
Through this course, we aim to develop your analytical and problem-solving skills, and to introduce you to the multitude of factors that can influence workplace safety and health. This is to help you become a practitioner in preventing accidents and ill health in the workplace, and in managing workplace environmental issues.
You’ll learn how to critically assess the evidence on the health and wellbeing of a defined population, and how to analyse exposure data to evaluate toxicological risks to population health.
Courses
- Occupational Health and Safety Management
- Project Management
- Fire Safety Management
- Information Security Risk Mamagment
- Occupational Safety Monitoring and Control
- Applied Statistics
- Database Management System
- Occupational Epidemiology
- Workplace Leadership
- Occupational Health Management
- Community Based Participatory Action Research
- Workplace Hazards
- Risk Management and Workers’ Compensation
- Management Information System
Research Project inOccupational Safety and Health:
Master Thesis Project
MBM300 Thesis Proposal
MBM302 Master Thesis (5,000 words)
Publication: All students are encouraged to publish their research papers either online in the public domain or through professional journals and periodicals worldwide.