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Occupational Safety and Health AAS Degree

Overview

Narrative

Establishing a safe workplace should be a priority for all employers. Mitigating workplace hazards and environmental exposures not only prevents worker illness and injuries but also ensures regulatory compliance.

Northampton’s Occupational Safety & Health AAS degree provides aspiring safety professionals a cost effective, convenient training option to immediately enter the workforce as an occupational safety & health specialist or to transfer into a four-year institution to pursue a Bachelor’s degree or certificate.

As a result of completing the program, students will have the skills to establish workplace health and safety policies and procedures and effectively communicate those procedures to employees and organizational stakeholders.

Features

NCC’s Occupational Safety and Health program provides the essential skills necessary to control hazardous and environmental exposures in the workplace and to prevent worker illness and injuries. Concept electives will prepare participants for either a general industry or construction workplace safety role. Convenient, 100% online format enables participants to complete the program as a full time student or part-time while working.

The program has associations with the National Safety Council, American Society of Safety Professionals, and the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). Contact the Admissions Office at 610-861-5500 for further information.

Career Potential

Prepares individuals for immediate employment as an occupational health and safety specialist or to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree or certificate from a four year college or university.

Outcomes

Graduates of the program will be able to:

1. Develop and implement occupational safety and health programs and procedures within organizations to reduce or eliminate workplace exposures to risks and hazards.

2. Conduct workplace inspections to identify and mitigate areas that are not in compliance with Federal or Commonwealth laws and regulations.

3. Demonstrate functionality as it relates to occupational safety and health.

4. Design and deliver occupational safety and health training programs.

5. Advise senior leadership on methods to achieve higher worker productivity with reduced expenses and litigation, reduction of absenteeism, and positive workforce morale through the implementation of cost-effective workplace safety programs.

 

Courses

First Semester

COLS101College Success

1 credits

OSAH105Introduction to Workplace Safety

3 credits

OSAH107Human Factors in Occupational Safety

3 credits

COMM101Introduction to Communication

3 credits

ENGL101English I

3 credits

MATH103Technical Mathematics

3 credits

Total Credit Hours:16

Second Semester

OSAH106Introduction to Regulatory Compliance

3 credits

OSAH110Hazardous Materials Safety

3 credits

ENGL151REnglish II

3 credits

CISC101Introduction to Information Technology

3 credits

Social Science: Scientific Study of Human Behavior Elective (SSHB)

3 credits

Total Credit Hours:15

Third Semester

OSAH215Occupational Health Hazards

3 credits

EMGS151Fire Prevention

3 credits

OSAH216Workplace Ergonomics

3 credits

BIOS126Environmental Science

4 credits

OSAH241Occupational Risk Management and Control

3 credits

Total Credit Hours:16

Fourth Semester

OSAH230Workplace Safety, Health, and Environmental Communications

3 credits

OSAH242Behavioral Aspects of Accident Prevention

3 credits

OSAH Concept Elective*

3 credits

PHIL202Ethics & Moral Problems

3 credits

Social Science: Societies and Institutions over Time Elective (SIT)

3 credits

Total Credit Hours:15

Total Credit Hours: 62

 

*Concept Electives: OSAH 202 or OSAH 203


One General Education Elective must be taken in a Writing Intensive (WI) section, and one should be designated as Diversity and Global Awareness (D).