A Glimpse into Occupational Health and Safety

This module is a brief overview of the field of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS).

History of Occupational Health and Safety

This module offers an overview of the practice of OHS from inception to the present day.

Theory and Practice of Occupational Health and Safety

This module discusses occupational health and safety team member roles and the credentials needed to practice in the specialties.

Population Perspectives: Labor

This module provides an introduction to American labor history and its connection to occupational and environmental health and safety.

Population Perspectives: Women in the Trades

In this module you hear the voices of women in the trades as they discuss their journey in a male-dominated profession.

Recognition/Assessment: Chemical and Biological Hazards

This module provides an overview of workplace hazards including recognition of stresses in the occupational environment, routes of entry into the workplace, the relationship of dose response and identification of Occupational Exposure limits.

Threshold Limit Values

This module provides an overview of exposure limits and their application in the occupational setting.

Recognition/Assessment: Physical and Psychosocial Hazards

This module will discuss the workplace physical hazards, as well as psycho-social stresses and their effects on health.

Recognition/Assessment: Health Assessment and Employee Selection

This module examines the role of health assessment in employee selection and the practical benefits assessments play in employee selection.

Unsafe Acts/Unsafe Conditions

This module will discuss the roles of worker behavior and unsafe conditions that lead to workplace injury.

Program Evaluation

This module discusses the merits and limitations of various sampling strategies and identifies steps in the comprehensive sampling cycle.

Health Promotion and Adult Education

This module discusses the application of theory to change health behavior and implementation of health promotion in the workplace setting.

Control Strategies for Physical Hazards

This module discusses control strategies for physical hazards including those associated with noise, electrical and mechanical hazards and those associated with confined spaces and ergonomic stresses.

Control Strategies for Chemical or Biological Hazards

This module describes the hierarchy of occupational hazard controls, identifies controls and selection criteria for personal protective equipment. Additionally, the module discusses adult education and health promotion theory.

Program Development

This module discusses the basic tools needed for occupational program planning development and the components required to meet OSHA compliance for a basic safety program.

Issues and Trends in Occupational Health and Safety

Major trends influencing the health of the workforce is reviewed and how these trends influence the practice of Occupational Health and Safety.

Radiological Hazard Awareness for Public Health Workers

The module will present ways to classify hazards, properties that make radiological materials hazardous, occasions when public health workers may respond to hazardous radiological issues, and examples of public health responses to hazardous radiological incidents. Important definitions, classifications, health effects, federal, state and local legal responsibilities and resources for continued study on this topic are also included.

Chemical Hazard Awareness for Public Health Workers

The module will present ways to classify hazards, properties that make chemicals hazardous, occasions when public health workers may respond to hazardous chemical issues, examples of public health responses to hazardous chemical incidents. Important definitions, classifications, health effects, federal, state and local legal responsibilities and resources for continued study on this topic are also included.

Nurse's Guide to Children's Agricultural Safety

The purpose of this continuing education offering is to help the nursing professional working with rural families understand the importance of adult responsibilities in assigning agricultural tasks to children. The North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks are geared toward helping parents choose jobs that are matched to the abilities of their children. The goal of the Guidelines is to reduce the level of risk for children, with the ultimate goal of preventing farm work-related injury and illness. This course will help health care providers give informed guidance to parents in making those decisions.