The entire course series includes all courses listed on this page
Pricing Entire course series: $500.00
Introduction to OSHE
What is safety and what is a safe workplace? What is health? What are the strengths and weaknesses of
introducing environmental management into the health and safety program? What is OSHE? In this course,
various broad areas of OSHE and OSHE programmes in the workplace will be discussed.
Rather than looking at technical components of OSHE programs, like WHMIS, fall arrest or EAPs, we will
study the structures that support and create the framework on which the concrete OSHE program rests,
such as policy formation, planning, standards, and program assessment. For each of these topics, we
will apply the "Five Steps to Managing Health and Safety" developed by the "Safe Communities" team.
This cycle allows a structured interpretation of each subject and its real-world implementation.
This course explores several tightly intertwined subjects - hazards, risks, losses, and means of defining,
understanding, analysing, and assessing them. As well, learnersl examine how these topics relate to
formal methods in safety theory and practice, and how they all relate to one another.
Much of this course centres on engineering knowledge, but presented so that someone with no engineering
background can understand it with minimal difficulty. As such, the course deals with engineering controls
(especially control types), but also some related administrative controls, particularly OSHE awareness
and emergency planning.
This course covers various layers of policy, their uses and their applications for organizations. Because
OSHE policy development is a broad area with impact over entire safety programs and organizations, this
module also touches upon other areas of interest and effect.
According to the American Heritage Æ Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, a policy is:
"A plan or course of action, as of a government, political party, or business, intended to influence
and determine decisions, actions, and other matters."
OSHE policy development, then, sets the tenor, tone and direction for the OSHE program, which will influence
and be influenced by the organization at large.
This course describes the mechanics and elements required to implement OSHE programmes from a safety
management point of view, including implementing new programs or new program features and components,
and updating existing programs or program components. By drawing back and looking at OSHE programs abstractly,
rather than specifically, we can view the underlying structures, features, components, and organizations
that compose them.
What does an OSHE program really do? This course looks at some pieces and parts of OSHE programs and
their functions. While other course looked at safety programs very abstractly, this module deals with
program components concretely and specifically, and provides useful information to guide program development.
This course introduces theoretical groundwork built on the pragmatic basics from earlier in the course
series. These more abstract and intellectual frameworks also help to illuminate and contextualize what
has been learned in the previous courses in this series. Safety management requires a broad, more than
superficial understanding of numerous subject areas, as well as "hard" and "soft" skills.
