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Health and Safety Management Certificate
Enhance your skills in risk management, accident prevention, persuasive communication, and continuous improvement. Learn how to drive business results while promoting a culture of safety and wellness in your organization.
Earn Continuous Professional Development (CPD) points for the Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP)
Health and Safety Management Certificate Overview
The Health and Safety Management certificate is designed to take your technical knowledge and leadership skills to the next level. This course combines case studies, research, application to real-life situations, and self-reflection to help you learn:
- Systematic approaches to accident prevention, loss control, and health and safety management systems
- The effects of poor risk management on workplace fatalities, injuries, and disease, and how to influence decision-makers to make informed choices regarding risk
- How to identify your own ethical blind spots and biases to improve your decision-making and professional practice
- How to enhance your communication skills to improve relationships with employees and managers, and build credibility as a health and safety manager
- How to continuously improve your approach to workplace safety and wellbeing
Benefits of Health and Safety Management Training at Kompass
This course is delivered online for maximum flexibility without sacrificing on quality, engagement, or instructor support.
Here’s how it works:
- Study online and fit coursework around your schedule
- Learn from an accomplished health and safety leader with 18 years of experience
- Exchange ideas with fellow health and safety professionals
- Get personalized support and coaching
- Learn OHS skills you can apply immediately in your own work
- Get real results you can keep building on after completing the course
Careers in Health and Safety Management
Health and safety leaders work in many industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, construction, mining, government, hospitality, and transportation.
Mid-to-senior job titles in this field include:
- Occupational Health and Safety Manager
- Health and Safety Advisor
- Health and Safety Consultant
- Health and Safety Superintendent
- Health and Safety Director
Course Schedule and Format
(Asynchronous)
Instructor-supported courses come with the support of a dedicated instructor but do not follow a set class schedule. Students work at their own pace to complete the course within a set time period. The instructor may offer pre-recorded lectures that are available for students to review or check-in sessions that students can participate in via video conferencing.
Prevention should be a top priority for all organizations. A good culture of safety promotes fewer injuries, which in turn increases employee morale and improves a corporation’s reputation. Putting health and safety first allows companies to reduce capital and operating costs as well as liability costs. In this module, you will learn the importance of approaching accident prevention systematically.
Risk management is part of organization decision making. In this module, you will learn the effects of poor risk management and how it factors in workplace fatalities, injuries, disease, and ill health (mental and physical) and how you can influence decision-makers to make informed choices with respect to risk.
Occupational health and safety (OHS) professionals and those involved in corporate OHS culture have an intrinsic desire to be ethical professionals. Individual factors such as biases, blind spots, and moral disengagement can have a profound impact on the decision-making process. This module presents ethical theory as a basis for identifying issues, carrying out health and safety processes and activities, and making decisions.
A leader is someone who influences the safety culture of an organization. In this module, you will learn communication and consultation skills, discuss leadership and leadership techniques, and learn how to engage management and employees and build successful relationships. You will gain an understanding of the broader demands of an organization and develop skills to operate as a strategic partner who can guide change management and build credibility and influence without using power.
One way to achieve a psychologically safe workplace is to create and implement a comprehensive workplace health and safety program. This module will identify strategies and related activities, initiatives, and policies developed by the employer in consultation with employees to continually improve on the quality of working life, health, and well-being of the workforce.
Instructors
Meet our industry-expert instructors.
Kylie Boyd
Instructor, Health and Safety Management
Kylie is an accomplished and dedicated professional with extensive operational and leadership experience in both project management, health and safety and instruction of health, safety and wellness.
Click here to read a blog interview with Kylie
Following graduation from the Niagara College’s EMA post-graduate program she obtained over 18 years of experience managing various environmental and agricultural projects from inception to completion. Included within the scope of project management were all aspects of health and safety for a variety of workplace and field situations. She has experience in team selection, project design, budgeting and cost control, reporting, statistical analysis as well as client communication and presentation. In addition,
She has conducted health and safety audits, risk assessments, hazardous materials assessments and provided written and verbal recommendations and training in a variety of commercial and industrial settings. She has experience in creating health and safety policies (both Federally and Provincially) Emergency Response protocols, Spill protocols, material handling protocols and hazardous materials handling protocols.
Overview
START DATES
Weekly (Mondays)
TOTAL PROGRAM LENGTH
10-20 weeks (200 academic credit hours)
DELIVERY
Online (Instructor Supported)
ENTRANCE REQUIREMENT
Post-secondary education (degree or diploma) OR experience in a related field
Ready to start?
Classes begin every Monday!
Scholarship Offer
Register for a certificate and automatically receive a $500 discount on tuition!
Continuing Professional Development
This course contains 200 technical hours and may be eligible for BCRSP CPD points. See the BCRSP website at www.bcrsp.ca for CPD point criteria. Equal to 20 Continuing Education Units (CEU).
Related Certificates
Who Should Take the Certificate?
The Health and Safety Management certificate is designed for professionals working in health and safety and related fields:
- Individuals with a strong background in health and safety
- Mid-level and senior management
- HR professionals
- Those interested in earning CPD hours through BCRSP
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
- Post-secondary university degree or college diploma; OR
- Relevant professional experience