Occupational Health and Safety Advisor

A degree in Occupational Health and Safety helps prepare students for working in the industrial and manufacturing industry.  In this setting, graduates oversee and administer health and safety procedures relating to the industrial work environment.  Areas of responsibility include hazardous materials management, compliance with OSHA requirements and facilitation of worker safety guidelines, interaction with Human Resources on employee management health and safety issues and laws, and in some cases implementation and administration of company health promotion programs.

Courses Taught  

• HS 310 Environmental Health
• HS 450 Evironmental Sanitation & Water Quality Management
• HS 485 Toxicology
• HS 486 Occupational Safety & Risk Management
• HS 487 Industrial Hygiene

Links

• Industrial Hygiene Society

• AIHA -American Industrial Hygiene Association
• ASSE-American Society of Safety Engineers
• NEHA-National Environmental Health Association
• ACGIH-American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
• NSC- National Safety Council
• Spanish Site

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