Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Management Middlesex University

Overview

Why study this program?

This Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Management program at Middlesex University has an emphasis on developing professional skills and is delivered by a mix of academics with a practice background and practitioners working in industry. The University's strong links within the industry and professional bodies mean that this long standing course is well respected internationally.

For those of you with appropriate experience, the programme will help generate a greater understanding of your subject and allow you to become a competent practitioner who is able to influence health, safety, and environmental improvement in the workplace.

You will develop appropriate legal and technical knowledge to enable you to lead and contribute workplace risk management processes. Your learning is designed to be fused with your existing experience in industries and will enable you to develop an organisation's health and safety and wellbeing policies, instigate workplace interventions and improve your negotiation, advocacy, management, leadership, communication and teamwork skills.

Course Highlights

• The course is accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, which means you can become a certified member of the institution when you complete the course, and can then gain chartered membership after two years' professional development
• You'll have access to the Barbour Index, the UK's leading source of health and safety information, including statistics, information on legislation changes and training guides
• Our excellent facilities include a specialist environmental and occupational safety laboratory where you'll have access to specialist monitoring and other equipment

• As a student of this course you'll receive a free electronic textbook for most modules.

You will gain a practical understanding of the workplace, work equipment, chemical, physical and biological hazards, and their potential to act synergistically to impact detrimentally on safety and health.

You will explore the core components of environmental management systems and their role in pollution prevention, together with the role of legislation and environmental regulators. Building on your existing knowledge, the risks arising from common commercial and industrial processes and the concept of Best Available Technology (BAT) in the context of industrial environmental management and control will also be covered when you create and develop your own case study.

Career Opportunities

This course can open the doors to a wide range of careers. You could work in a company as a health, safety and environment advisor, or within a specialist consultancy, or as a self-employed practitioner. Many of our graduates also work overseas for international companies. Previous graduates have found work in the following sectors:

• Transport for London
• Ferrovial, St Georges,
• NHS trusts
• Local Authorities
• Government agencies
• Universities
• Human Factors
• Facilities management
• Consultancies

Accreditation

• The course is accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, which means you can become a graduate member of the institution when you complete the course, and can then gain chartered membership after two years' professional development.