With our part-time Occupational Health and Safety (commonly known as OHS and OH&S) Certificate, you’ll learn to keep employees safe and healthy by planning, promoting, implementing and evaluating workplace safety management programs.

Six focused OHS courses will teach you about workplace health and safety systems, including the fundamentals of occupational hygiene, safety hazard recognition, organizational behaviour within the context of Canadian business, and provincial and federal health and safety legislation including the Workers Compensation Act.

You’ll choose from a variety of electives that will broaden your skill set to meet the increasing demands of the OHS field. Topics include workplace training design, communication in business, rehabilitation and disability, vocational accommodations and return-to-work strategies.

This program is a perfect foundation if you'd like to enter the OHS field. It’s also invaluable if you're an experienced safety professional, and you wish to improve your chances of a promotion.

As a certificate graduate, you will be able to plan, promote, implement and evaluate safety programs in a variety of public and private settings, including the following:

You’ll be prepared for a variety of roles that may include the following: