Bachelor of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Singapore)

Create healthy, innovative workplaces. It's a safe path to career success.

In Singapore and worldwide, there's surging demand for experts with dual knowledge in environmental health and OHS. This world-class multidisciplinary degree combines three fields - Environmental Science, Workplace Health and Occupational Safety, giving you the best foundation for a successful career at home or abroad.

Protect the health and safety of others. Improve workplace efficiency. Create better work environments for local and global innovation. Delivered at The University of Newcastle Singapore, this program is designed to complement your work and personal commitments - helping you advance your career and gain global connections while you work.

This multi-disciplinary course equips you with in-depth knowledge and experience in the fields of environmental health and occupational health and safety (OHS).

Delivered in partnership with the PSB Academy in Singapore, you'll explore academic content and theoretical principles within a Singapore context and with an Asian perspective on professional practice. You will:

• Gain extensive knowledge in environmental and OHS management and professional practice, applied engineering, and applied science relevant to environmental and occupational health and safety.
• Discover the broad field of Singaporean and global environmental and OHS policy and practice.
• Develop critical research skills that will set you in good stead for life-long learning in the field of environmental health and OHS.

Areas of study include:

• bioscience
• occupational hygiene and toxicology
• occupational health and safety
• environmental health and OHS practice and management
• epidemiology and environmental health
• ergonomics for OHS
• international perspectives on environmental health and OHS
• environmental health and OHS law
• research methods in environmental health and control and OHS
• environmental impact assessment
• environmental control practice and industrial ecology

University of Newcastle graduates are very employable and highly regarded. Many of our graduates have advanced rapidly in their careers and are now in management roles around the globe.

Following graduation, choose from a wide range of rewarding professional and management roles in government, industry and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Examples include:

• In-plant Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Officer
• Regional and Global EHS Senior Manager
• Government-related EHS Manager
• Sustainability Manager
• Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Consultant
• Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Trainer