University of the East (Universidad del Este (UDE))
Degree in Occupational Safety, Hygiene and Environmental Control
La Plata, Argentina
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
About: The Degree in Occupational Safety, Hygiene and Environmental Control trains graduates with practical and theoretical skills for industrial and institutional settings. The programme covers risk assessment, incident analysis, prevention and mitigation, plus design and management of hygiene, safety and workplace environmental systems to reduce harm to worker health, accidents, occupational disease and environmental damage.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as safety manager, occupational hygienist, environmental health officer, risk assessor, EHS coordinator or safety consultant, and serve in manufacturing, construction, services, government or consulting firms. Skills map to hazard identification, systems implementation, incident investigation, regulatory compliance and prevention strategy and control.
The Degree in Occupational Safety, Hygiene and Environmental Control at UDE trains university graduates with knowledge and experimental practice to face professional activity in all its aspects and in its different applications, industrial environments and establishments.
It is an up-to-date career that took into account the constant evolution of technology and production systems to design its training. This is the reason why, with this proposal, it is sought to adapt the Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety, Hygiene and Environmental Control to the needs of current times.
The career of the UDE assumes as a necessity the comprehensive training of professionals who are capable of fulfilling functions both in the field of risk assessment and analysis management, as well as in the development and implementation of prevention and mitigation techniques of the different technological and environmental threats.
Also, more specifically, in our University this career trains professionals capable of implementing, evaluating, organizing and conducting hygiene, safety and work environment systems, applying various techniques, human resources, materials, equipment, machines. and facilities, in order to reduce damage to workers' health and economic losses derived from workplace accidents, occupational diseases and environmental damage.
