Specialise in identifying and managing workplace risks to ensure a safe and healthy work environment.
This course prepares you for a diverse career in the expanding area of occupational health and safety. You will learn how to create, maintain and manage a safe and healthy workplace, and develop professional skills in critical thinking, information literacy and technology.
Your first year is inter-professional and taken with other health sciences students. In your second and third years, you’ll learn how to identify and manage risks and hazards, participate effectively in decision-making processes and improve health and safety to prevent injuries and illness in the workplace.
You will complete a 100-hour placement in your second year and a 150-hour placement in your third year to develop important practical skills and to experience real work environments.
Why Health, Safety and Environment?
- You’ll get to apply and integrate knowledge and practice of occupational health to enhance the safety and well-being of populations
- You’ll get to apply logical and rational processes to critically analyse issues relevant to occupational health and think creatively in the generation of solutions to problems
- You’ll get to access, evaluate and synthesise relevant information and evidence from the range of resources applicable to practice
- You’ll get to communicate effectively with a range of people including community groups, workers, employers, statutory authorities and their representatives and other professionals
- You can use scientific methods and technologies with an understanding of their advantages and limitations
- You can demonstrate your ability for self-directed and lifelong learning through self-accepted responsibility
- You’ll get to recognise and apply international standards and perspectives within occupational settings
- You can demonstrate an appreciation of cultural diversity including the impact of cultural and social factors
- You can demonstrate professionalism and capacity for leadership and be able to work independently, collaboratively and ethically.
Location |
Perth, Malaysia |
Study Method |
Full-time |
Study Mode |
On-campus |
Intake |
February or July |
Duration |
3 years |
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This page was last updated on 31 January 2024