Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management

The best practices in occupational health and safety management (OHSM) have evolved into a composite discipline creating a need of specialized professionals who are trained to focus on well-being of the workforce. The objective of this modern day broad specialty is to promote and maintain a high level of physical, mental and social welfare of workers in all occupations and mitigate the risks to health with a strict adherence to evidence based preventive medicine.

Occupational health and safety (OHS) is a dynamic discipline which ensures that all the determinants of health related to work are understood and best practice guidelines are developed and implemented. Modern day occupational health practice gives particular importance to preventive strategies for mitigating risks of cancers, accidents, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, communicable diseases and psycho-social morbidity. The evolving sciences of ergonomics and occupational health psychology are also drawing major attention from professional organizations.

Occupational health and safety management has received particular importance worldwide as a mandatory exercise for global economic development. It has been included as a basic component of human rights by the UN in a special rapporteur on health in 2012. The Word Health Organization has defined a strategy for occupational health in the WHO Global Plan for Workers Health, 2008-2017 and promotes a network of collaborating centers worldwide.

This Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health and safety management is a distance e-Learning course that offers an in-depth knowledge and expertise in the science underpinning work related health and safety. The main objective of the program is to develop professionals with a strong research focus to augment conventional occupational health practice into an evidence based interdisciplinary practice.