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Courses Offered in OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Core Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Latest Developments in Fire Sciences and Occupational Safety

  • This course is designed for the fire and law enforcement investigators, prosecutors, and fire protection professionals. It provides a thorough understanding of fire dynamics, describing and illustrating a totally new systematic approach for reconstructing fire scenes.

  • 6 Credits

  • Hazardous Materials

  • This course is designed to understand the importance of safety measures that must be taken while handling hazardous materials. The topics of this course include Principles of Chemical Reactions, Chemical Forms of Matter, Chemistry of Some Oxidizers and Radioactive Materials.

  • 6 Credits

  • Fire Sciences and Occupational Safety

  • This course provides managers, architects, plant engineers, technicians, and others with a practical knowledge in the principles of fire protection, life safety elements and property loss control.

  • 6 Credits

  • Risk Management

  • This course shows you how to utilize all the tools available through public education, how to contribute to their planning efforts by incorporating investigation activities into a coordinated strategy for loss control, and how to organize their prevention efforts in the most effective manner.

  • 6 Credits

  • Fire Service Instructor

  • This course provides a baseline level of computer networking knowledge. This course covers experimental data relevant to learning theories, instruction methodologies and evaluation techniques with reference to the training of fire service instructors. This course will be highly appealing to all those working in fire safety engineering and related disciplines.

  • 6 Credits
Specialized Course

Latest developments in fire sciences and occupational safety

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Principles of reconstruction.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Basic fire dynamics.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Arson crime scene analysis.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fire death and injuries.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fire testing.
    Future tools for the fire investigator.

Hazardous materials

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Course introduction
    Awareness review
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Protective clothing and equipment
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Termination procedures
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Safety at hazmat incidents
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Conclusion

Fire sciences and occupational safety

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction
    Characteristics and behavior of fire
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Emergency organization
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Fire safety in design and construction
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Automatic fire detection and alarm systems
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Education and training

Risk management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    An overview of the comprehensive approach to prevention.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Planning for fire and life safety prevention.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The plan review process: engineering elements in prevention.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Code enforcement/development: developing quality codes and making sure they are enforced.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Public fire and life safety education programs.
    Fire investigation.
    Staffing, training and funding options for prevention programs.
    Evaluating prevention programs.

Fire Service Instructor

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The role of the instructor
    Methodologies of instruction
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Learning theories
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Learning environments
    Legal issues in instruction
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Conducting practical training exercises
    Curriculum development
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Organizing and running a training program

Safety management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The concept of risk
    Risk management
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Personality, behaviour and human error
    Risk perception
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Cost-benefit analysis
    Managing health and safety risks
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Regulatory models for managing health and safety
    Risk assessment
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Risk control
    Training and competence
    Performance measurement
    Auditing, benchmarking and continuous improvement
    Responsibility and accountability for health and safety

Risk Management and Safety Technology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Lessons learned from case studies.
    Chase manhattan corporation.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    E.i. du pont de nemours and company.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Microsoft corporation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    United grain growers limited.
    Unocal corporation.
    Conclusion.

Occupational Safety and Fire Sciences

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Accident losses.
    Liabilities and safety legislation.
    Workers' compensation.
    Oshact and its administration.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Standards, codes, and other safety documents.
     6. engineers and safety.
    Management and its responsibilities.
    The changing roles of safety personnel.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Personnel.
    Appraising plant safety.
    Hazards and their control.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Planning for emergencies.
    Accident investigations.
    Safety analysis.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Mechanical injuries.
    Work-related musculoskeletal disorders.
    Heat and temperature.
    Pressure hazards.
    Electrical hazards.
    Fires and fire suppression.
    Explosions and explosives.
    Hazards of toxic materials.
    Environments.
    Confined space entry.
    Radiation.
    Vibration and noise.

Occupational Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Being at work
    Attitudes to work
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Job satisfaction
    Absenteeism and turnover
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Motivation and rewards
    Performing at work
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Performance appraisal and performance measurement
    Training
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Choosing people to work
    Selection processes
    Psychology of interviewing
    Use of psychological tests in selection
    Miscellaneous methods of assessing appbrcants

Advanced Fire Prevention

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Suppression agents and principles
    Portable fire extinguishers
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Portable and mobile foam equipment
    Foam extinguishing systems
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Carbon dioxide extinguishing systems
    Dry chemical extinguishing systems
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Halogenated agent extinguishing systems
    Explosion suppression systems
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Specialized extinguishing systems
    Fire detection systems
    Residential fire detection
    Thermal detection systems
    Smoke detection systems
    Flame detection systems
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