Graduate Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety Management

The Graduate Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety Management will teach you personal and professional skills that are necessary to be successful in demanding and evolving business environments.

This programme offers a blend of theoretical and practical learning, with an emphasis on applied knowledge and skill. High importance is placed on the development of occupational health and safety management skills (such as communication, presentation, interpersonal and problem solving skills) in addition to the development of specific business knowledge.

You will learn to:

• Critically analyse strategic occupational health and safety issues facing organisations, 
• Develop and implement policies and procedures management,
• Undertake an influential leadership role.

*As of 01 January 2022, SIT2LRN has updated the paper codes to be in line with other Southern Institute of Technology’s qualifications. The paper name and content are the same.

Please ensure that you are selecting the correct papers when you enrol online as the application will now show the new paper codes.

Please see the table below for the old and new codes:

Compulsory Papers

MGT615 Occupational Health and Safety Management Practice Leadership (15 credits)

This paper provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to be champions for occupational health and occupational safety to enable development of leadership and building of an organistional health and safety culture. This paper will also enable students to develop an understanding of aspects of leadership, leadership style and methods for dealing with leadership problems.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• Assess occupational health and occupational safety best practice for a specific organisation.
• Outline the factors involved in performance management and critically examine strategies to review individual performance.
• Examine the importance of leadership style in managing people in a team environment.
• Critically analyse various contemporary leadership concepts and how they can be implemented to build an organisational health and safety culture.
• Evaluate the application of leadership concepts in the development of a health and safety culture within an organisation.

MGT711 Occupational Health and Safety Sustainability Practices (15 credits)

This paper will challenge traditional organisational sustainability practices, looking at how sustainable strategies need to consider and incorporate health and safety issues, needs and requirements, to enable organisations to be considered truly sustainable entities.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• Define Sustainability Management and how it impacts the environmental, social and economic activities of organisations.
• Examine how traditional sustainability models can impact health and safety within organisations.
• Assess methods to incorporate health and safety into the sustainability practices of organisations.
• Critically assess the health and safety needs of organisations and develop sustainable health and safety strategies.

MGT712 Workplace Health and Wellbeing Strategies (15 credits)

Student will learn about strategies for developing health and wellbeing programmes within the workplace, analysing the role of leadership and management in the implementation and continuation of health and wellbeing initiatives, and develop metrics to measure the success of health and wellbeing programmes.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• Compare and contrast the cause and effect of health and wellbeing in the workplace and analyse the impact on employees and organisations.
• Critically evaluate the role of leadership and management in the promotion of health and wellbeing strategies within the workplace.
• Establish a business case for creating or improving worker health and wellbeing within organisations.
• Develop health and wellbeing strategies for organisations including metrics to measure success.

MGT714 Occupational Safety Strategic Management (15 credits)

This paper aims to provide participants with an understanding of the issues and implications for an organisation regarding occupational safety and the ability to critically evaluate strategic management approaches in various contexts within an organization.

On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:

• Critically analyse an organisation’s internal environment with regard to occupational safety issues and implications.
• Critically evaluate the research that has influenced approaches to occupational safety management.
• Critically evaluate the strategic options in the context of occupational safety for a specific organization.
• Assess factors that influence the effectiveness of strategy implementation.
• Evaluate strategic performance.