Occupational Safety and Health - Technician Associate of Applied Science-T Degree

Students will demonstrate General Education Learning Outcomes in each of the following areas:

Communication Skills: Write in clear, effective ways, adapted to audience, context, and purpose.
Quantitative Skills: Apply mathematical, quantitative or symbolic models to solve problems, draw inferences, or support conclusions appropriate to an individual discipline.
Cultural Diversity: Apply multiple perspectives when examining cultural differences and interacting in multicultural settings.

Students will demonstrate Distribution Learning Outcomes in each of the following areas:

Humanities: Use Humanities-based methods to reason, communicate, make meaning, solve problems and/or create or perform cultural works for diverse audiences and purposes.
Natural Sciences and Mathematics: Use scientific and mathematical methods, modes of inquiry, and terminology to demonstrate knowledge, comprehension, and application of science concepts and insights.
Social Sciences: Use Social Science theories and methods to reason, communicate, apply insights, solve problems, and to develop a critical understanding of the diversity and interdependence of peoples and cultures.

• Ability to communicate effectively and creatively through writing, presentation, training and through daily interaction with others.
• Ability to think critically about historical and current political and social trends surrounding the profession of occupational safety and health.
• Advise upper management in how to maximize worker productivity through raising morale and reducing absenteeism, turnover, and equipment downtime while saving on insurance premiums, workers’ compensation benefits, and litigation expenses and presenting safety and health prevention measures in a cost effective manner.
• Awareness of diversity issues that affect historical and current trends as well as their affect on the communication and training process of diverse populations.
• Collect data on work environments for on-going analysis that may predict risks and hazards.
• Conduct job site inspections and determine which areas may not be in compliance with State and Federal laws and/or company policies.
• Identify sources of exposure and/or contamination and design programs to control, eliminate, and mitigate disease or injury caused by chemical, physical, radiological, and biological agents or ergonomic factors.
• Maintain complete safety and health records as required by law and by company policy and preparing reports that may be used in legal proceeding and financial planning.
• Promote a culture of health and safety within organizations by communicating to workers and management about risks and hazards, training workers how to avoid accidents and how to protect themselves and others.
• Reduce harm to workers, property, the environment, and the general public by identifying hazardous conditions/practices and implementing corrective measures.
• Respond to an incident by utilizing emergency response plans, investigating the event, assisting the worker(s) with immediate and long term rehabilitation with a focus on returning to work and by promoting corrective action to prevent a similar incident from happening again.
• Comprehension of and commitment to best practices in sustainability and global consciousness.
• Ability to utilize basic quantitative skills necessary to support the above skill sets.

Students will demonstrate the following Learning Outcome from Program Elective courses: