Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental Management
Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11
Apply to: Biggar
Cost:
Prerequisites:
The SHEM program requires applicants to hold a Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety. We ask you to please arrange for proof of your certificate program to be sent to us:
- An official letter or transcript confirming your completion of a health and safety certificate program from the institute where you were enroled.
It is essential that all students have access to a computer with an internet connection, headset with microphone.
Description:
Note: This program has ongoing intake and can be started at any time.
The Professional Diploma in Safety, Health and Environmental Management (SHEM) is designed for existing safety practitioners, and is the first diploma level program offered online at this academic level.
The SHEM program will provide students with the knowledge required to develop, implement, and evaluate occupational health and safety programs and systems in the workplace. Demand for competent health and safety practitioners is increasing steadily and is forecast to accelerate in the future. In today’s competitive workforce, practitioners must bring not just life experience and motivation, but real, tangible educational credentials and skills.
The new Professional Diploma in Safety, Health and Environmental Management will augment the skills and knowledge of graduates of our Certificate in Health, Safety and Environmental Process (CHSEP) program or recognized equivalent. Students will begin the diploma program with pre-existing skills in incident causation theory, risk assessment and physical workplace controls as typically achieved through a certificate-level program.
SCHEDULE:
This diploma program has six core courses and two electives. Students may choose the electives that interest them most.
Program Duration:
Students can expect to complete the Professional Diploma in Safety, Health and Environmental Management program in about 16 months, assuming they enroll in one course at a time. Students may choose to take two courses simultaneously which would shorten the duration of the program.
FLEXIBLE Online Learning FORMAT:
The Professional Diploma in Safety, Health and Environmental Management is the first OSH-related diploma that is offered entirely.
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SHEM 111Trades - SHEM 111Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementOrganizational DynamicsLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(CORE COURSE) Taught from the perspective of a senior social worker, this course has been adapted from one taught by this instructor at Dalhousie University over the years. Although highlighting many of the normal elements of the subject, the social orientation of the content is refreshing, and helps students understand the subject from a more human, less sterile perspective. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 112Trades - SHEM 112Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementErgonomics FoundationsLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(CORE COURSE) The science of matching work to human needs is increasingly recognized as a major component of informed ‘safety’ interventions, yet applied training in the field is limited. This course begins by meeting the requirements in the BCRSP Study Guide for ergonomics (in the first four weeks) and continues to build skills across a variety of ergonomic principles and applications suitable for all environments. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 113Trades - SHEM 113Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementPsycho-Social HazardsLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(CORE COURSE) A reality in safety practice is that in most workplaces, the safety practitioner is alone in identifying, prioritizing and recommending interventions to their senior managers. And a reality in the emerging economy is that virtually every position is required to perform at a higher level with less and less support. Add to that an increasingly hostile public/client environment and the elements for a very stressful, sometimes violent workplace is apparent. This course helps safety practitioners identify those risk factors that create and perpetuate hostile environments, and includes a number of proven strategies for mitigating or reducing the risks of those negative encounters within the organization or from the public. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 114Trades - SHEM 114Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementEnvironmental ManagementLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(CORE COURSE) Environmental management has been merging in to general safety management practice since at least the early 1990’s. Successful safety management requires that practitioners grasp foundational principles of ecology as they relate to industrial and public operations across sectors and jurisdictions. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 115Trades - SHEM 115Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementRisk AssessmentLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(CORE COURSE) Informed safety practitioners understand the dynamic relationship between intelligent recommendations for safety improvements, versus those that are not defensible. Balancing the very real tensions between available resources and protecting those resources is becoming an expected part of the modern safety practitioners’ intellectual toolbox. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 217Trades - SHEM 217Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementThe Language of SafetyLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(ELECTIVE COURSE) If body language is any indicator of an individual’s actual thoughts, then having an understanding of somatic language and its implication for successful safety practice is imperative. Based on current research and application, this course equips learners to more fully understand what is really happening in their daily interactions, and includes effective strategies to greatly improve their professional practice. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 218Trades - SHEM 218Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementPersonal LeadershipLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(ELECTIVE COURSE) “Know thyself”. “Leadership” is a mantra recited across disciplines and levels. Yet not much is spoken of the concept of ‘followership’. Effective leaders first demonstrate the capacity to be good followers. Without that characteristic, their credibility is limited. Also, effective leaders have a well balanced sense of their own strengths/limitations, and are able to effectively position those characteristics to best use in the practice of workplace safety practice. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 219Trades - SHEM 219Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementJoint Safety Committee DynamicsLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(ELECTIVE COURSE) In emerging organizational cultures, various models of extending ‘ownership’ of safety program policy and administration is manifesting. In many Canadian jurisdictions, ‘joint safety committees’ are a regulatory requirement. In others, they are seen as a vehicle to improve corporate culture and enhance mutual trust/respect across the hierarchy. Regardless of whether a compliance or policy issue, putting stakeholders from various levels of the hierarchy in a role where they are charged with producing results for the safety program requires a rich understanding of the human qualities of communication, trust, power sharing and engagement. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 220Trades - SHEM 220Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementAdvanced Disability ManagementLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(ELECTIVE COURSE) This course builds on the foundational skills taught in the Foundations Course, and helps learners apply disability management solutions at a higher level across industries and jurisdictions. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 221Trades - SHEM 221Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementAdvanced ErgonomicsLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(ELECTIVE COURSE) This course builds on the Workplace Ergonomics course and highlights more advanced techniques and systems that enable learners to provide higher level solutions across a wider range of operational contexts. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 222Trades - SHEM 222Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementModern Training SystemsLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(ELECTIVE COURSE) Workers are the most underutilized capital in any industrialized country. A useful definition of training is “the provision of skills and knowledge that enable the learner to be a full contributing partner with the goals of the organization”. But telling is not teaching, and effective instruction must be based on a sound needs analysis that produces valid learning goals. In turn, achievement of these learning goals demands a defensible assessment strategy that not only confirms achievement of the goals in the learning environment, but the extent to which those goals actually transfer to the job, and the extent to which those goals actually enhance performance. This course highlights these components of a modern training system applicable to any industry or sector. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 223Trades - SHEM 223Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementIndependent StudyLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(ELECTIVE COURSE) From time to time, learners will find certain subject matter of particular interest to them, and want to explore it further. Although this can be done independent of the SHEM program, it may be possible to achieve credit for this independent study, providing the direction and content of the study is consistent with the goals of SHEM. This elective option is for learners who wish to drill down into a topic to meet personal learning needs specific to their own operational environment. In this course, learners will establish their own learning goals, review a text(s) and review journal articles related to their learning goals, and write a paper outlining what they’ve achieved. Supervision is provided through each of these phases, and the final grade is weighted to recognize efforts in each of these tasks. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 224Trades - SHEM 224Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementCanadian OHS LawLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(ELECTIVE COURSE) Course under development. Description to follow. | 01-Apr-10 |
SHEM 225Trades - SHEM 225Professional Diploma in Safety, Health & Environmental ManagementSafety ManagementLocation: Biggar Mode: blank Date: 01-Apr-10 to 30-Jun-11 Schedule: Apply to: Biggar Cost: Description:(ELECTIVE COURSE) Course under development. Description to follow. | 01-Apr-10 |
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