The occupational safety and health certificate provides foundational skills needed to assess, analyze, and evaluate safety and health hazards in the workplace.

This certificate is offered by BYU-Idaho, with support and resources from BYU-Pathway Worldwide.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

Outcomes

Recognize safety and health hazards
Assess constructs that influence health
Recommend controls for safety and health hazards
Evaluate safety and health hazards

Certificate of Occupational Safety and Health

Program Requirements

This certificate builds into the Applied Health degree.

This is an advanced certificate. If you are pursuing an Applied Health degree, you must first complete Community Health Planning & Implementation and Community Health Methods & Evaluation.

Certificate

9 CREDITS

Associate

60 CREDITS

Bachelor's

120 CREDITS

Certificate of Occupational Safety and Health

Course Code

Course Name

# of Credits

HS310

Environmental Health

HS310 — 3 credits

Environmental Health

This course provides a basic and theoretical understanding of the social, emotional/mental, physical, and lifestyle factors related to human behavior. Practical strategies are used to identify barriers to behavior and to enhance and improve health. This course will prepare students to take the CHES exam.

HS486

Occupational Safety and Risk Management

HS486 — 3 credits

Occupational Safety and Risk Management

This course is designed to develop an understanding of basic occupational safety and health terminology, principles, and practices through education and practical activities.

CONST221

Construction Safety

CONST221 — 3 credits

Construction Safety

Students will learn how employee safety is critical to the successful completion of any construction project. This course introduces students to OSHA policies, procedures, and standards, as well as construction safety and health principles. Special emphasis will be placed on recognizing the most common safety hazards in the construction industry.

HS384

Industrial Fire Safety

HS384 — 2 credits

Industrial Fire Safety

This course introduces students to the International Fire Code orienting them to the basics of understanding of how to read code, interpret code, and apply modern codes in various situations. Students will learn to develop and write reports and inspection forms to use in their enforcement inspections. Students seeking work in fields related to Occupational Health and Safety, Firefighting, Public Safety, Insurance, Corporate Safety, etc. should take this course.

HS484

Accident Investigation and Prevention

HS484 — 2 credits

Accident Investigation and Prevention

This course covers the theory and function of accident investigations, reporting, documentation, and analysis systems. Form design, utilization, and cost-evaluation procedures will be discussed.

For questions about this program, contact BYU-Pathway Support

Looking Ahead

Potential Employment

Safety and health technician

Safety specialist
Environmental health technician

Why choose this certificate?

Occupational safety and health training teaches about risk management in the workplace, avoiding injury and death, and protecting a company’s human resources. Students will learn compliance, health and safety inspection requirements, and the importance of improvement.

BYU-Pathway has found that certain combinations of certificates lead to better job opportunities. Most degrees have a recommended plan of certificates that will help students increase their income and improve their employment possibilities.