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Professional Diploma in Safety, Health and Environmental Management
Program Outline
This diploma program has six core courses and two electives. Students may choose the electives that interest them most.
Diploma Core courses: (all required)
SHEM 111 - Organizational Dynamics
SHEM 112 - Ergonomics Foundations
SHEM 113 - Psycho-Social Hazards
SHEM 114 - Environmental Management
SHEM 115 - Risk Assessment
SHEM 116 - Disability Management
Diploma Elective Courses: (select two)
SHEM 219 - Joint Safety Committee Dynamics
SHEM 220 - Advanced Disability Management
SHEM 221 - Advanced Ergonomics
SHEM 222 - Modern Training Systems
SHEM 223 - Independent Study
SHEM 224 - Canadian OHS Law
SHEM 225 - Safety Management
Course Descriptions
This diploma program has six core courses and two electives. Students may choose the electives that interest them most.
Diploma Core courses: (all required)
SHEM 111 - Organizational Dynamics
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.
SHEM 112 - Ergonomics Foundations
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.
SHEM 113 - Psycho-Social Health
A reality in safety practice is that in most workplaces, the safety practitioner is alone in identifying, priorizing 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.
SHEM 114 - Environmental Management
Environmental management has been merging in to general safety management practice since at least the early '90's. Successful safety management requires that practitioners grasp foundational principles of ecology as they relate to industrial and public operations across sectors and jurisdictions.
SHEM 115 - Risk assessment
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.
This course is the first of a three-part series that equip learners with tools to identify, priorize and manage risks to the organization's physical, human and financial assets. Understanding loss exposures, forecasting and analyzing trends, and making recommendations on the basis of value for investment will distinguish the emerging generation of safety practitioners.
Diploma Elective Courses (select two)
SHEM 219 - Joint Safety Committee Dynamics
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.
SHEM 220 - Disability Management
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.
SHEM 221 - Advanced Ergonomics
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.
SHEM 222 - Modern Training Systems
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.
SHEM 223 - Independent Study
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.
SHEM 224 - Canadian OHS Law
Taught by Canada's leading OHS lawyer, this Course will provide students with an excellent Introduction to Canadian Health & Safety Law. Students will learn the essential elements of the Canadian legal system, it application to OHS law, and the setting, communication and enforcement of OHS legal standards. Case studies, practical application of the law, and understanding how the law relates to OHS management systems will all be important themes throughout all the course modules. A review of the Bill C-45 amendments to the Criminal code will also be covered. See the attached course outline for more details and information on the course content. Detailed course description.
SHEM 225 - Safety Management
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