Safety Sciences Mission Statement

• Assist the University and the College of Health and Human Services in achieving their missions.
   
• Use the teacher-scholar model and the learning-centered environment to enhance the education of all students
   
• Target graduate education to meet the needs of current and future practitioners.
   
• Create a learning community that is diverse in its composition and committed to tolerance, compassion and service.
   
• Acquire and utilize technology that facilitates active participation in the creation and use of information on a global scale.
   
• Develop and maintain high quality curricula in undergraduate and graduate programs and offer continuing education coursework within the primary knowledge area of safety sciences.
   
• Conduct research whenever these opportunities are found in the safety sciences.
   
• Cooperate with employers to provide internship and cooperative education experiences for students.
   
• Consult and maintain relationships through professional associations and advisory committees to expand the knowledge to protect life, property, and the environment.
   

Program Educational Objectives - Bachelor of Science

• During their first five years upon graduation, graduates working as Safety, Health and Environmental Professionals will demonstrate abilities to:
  - anticipate, identify, and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices,
  - develop hazard control methods, procedures and programs
  - implement, administer, and advise others on hazard controls and hazard   
     control programs, and
  - evaluate hazard based on qualitative/quantitative methods and analyze and interpret data to develop controls.
• Graduates will continue their professional growth after graduation and the integration of new knowledge into their profession.
   
• Graduates will act in a professional and ethical manner. 

1.  Students will have demonstrated their ability to anticipate, identify,
     and evaluate hazards and develop hazard control methods, procedures
     and programs.  Students will demonstrate this outcome in the following

     safety sciences cognate areas:

• occupational safety and health

• industrial hygiene

• systems safety

• legal aspects of safety, health and environmental regulations

• fire safety

• safety management

• ergonomics

• construction safety

• environmental safety

• emergency preparedness

• hazardous materials    

     1.1  Students will demonstrate an ability to apply knowledge for solving

           applied science problems in algebra, statistics, human physiology and

           anatomy, physics and chemistry, including the ability to conduct

           experiments in prerequisite courses and safety sciences courses.
          
     1.2  Students will demonstrate an ability to recognize, evaluate and control

           hazards while on their internship.
  

     2.2  Students will develop and evaluate a comprehensive SHE Program.

     2.3  Students will apply business and risk management concepts as they

           relate to the prevention of hazardous acts and conditions, i.e. cost

           benefit analysis, behavioral strategies, modified work programs, etc.

     2.4  Students will apply adult learning theories in the completion of the SHE

           Training.
 

3.  Students will have developed an understanding of their professional and
      ethical responsibilities within the Safety, Health and Environmental
      field.

      3.1  Students will act in a professional and ethical manner while completing

           their internship.

     3.2  Students will develop an understanding of professional growth by

           becoming members of Professional Safety, Health and Environmental

           organizations.