The Health&SafetyBench™ Curriculum is designed to give students the materials, tools, and resources they need to ensure labour compliance and create a safe working environment for employees. Risk and hazards can emerge at anytime within an organization. The student should understand how to use the principles and techniques of occupational health and safety management to prevent and treat these risks, remove hazards, and prevent incidents that would result with injury or ill health of workers.
Health&SafetyBench™ provides the interested student who desires to become an Occupational Health and Safety Management Professional™ in an advanced series of study based on the ISO 45001:2018 Occupational health and safety management systems.
An Occupational Health and Safety Management Professional™ works to ensure an organization meets the requirements of health and safety compliance, carries out safety inspections and risk assessments, implements health and safety procedures in the workplace, and conducts relevant health and safety training with employees. They are also in charge of supervising staff, investigating incidents, and adjusting policies as needed.
The Occupational Health and Safety Management Professional™ continuously reviews the health and safety management system and makes improvements that match changes within the company. He or she also works with company leadership to improve risk-based decision-making and problem solving.
The purpose of the Health&SafetyBench™ Curriculum is to provide a set of guidelines that individuals such as stakeholders, risk analysts and managers, process managers, auditors, independent practitioners, multiple professionals and organizations can use to systematically improve occupational health and safety management for maximum efficiency.
The Health&SafetyBench™ curriculum provides principles and guidelines on occupational health and safety management, based on the ISO 45001 Occupational health and safety management systems. The curriculum is designed to address systematic identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks and threats to employee health and wellbeing within an organization, regardless of its size or sector.
ProficiencyBench™ courslets:
- Setting and Achieving Goals
- Adjusting to the Workplace
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Managing Stress
- Managing Time
- Writing Effectively
- Displaying Ethical Behaviors
- Communicating in Meetings
- Leading Group Meetings
- Working on Teams
- Networking with Professionals
- Creating and Delivering Presentations
These courselets can be taken as part of the ProficiencyBench Curriculum or as CEUs
Academic: To fulfill the academic requirements of the curriculum, students must complete the curriculum with all courselets and satisfactorily complete lab assignments. Lab assignments are designed to assess student understanding of specific learning outcomes of the Health&SafetyBench™ curriculum.
Certificate issuance: To be issued a certificate identifying you as an Occupational Health and Safety Management Professional™, a student must complete all the academic requirements and pass an assessment in the form of a comprehensive exam.
Certificate maintenance and use:
Designations and acronyms appointed to certificate holders are identified on the certificate and the individual profiles in the alumni directory. Each certificate has a unique serial number which is tracked by the Education Administrator.
Obtained designation and associated acronyms can be used to signify that the individual has obtained and maintains a valid certificate in the area of Risk Management. The designation and acronym Occupational Health and Safety Management Professional™ (OHSMP) can be used in CVs, on business cards and websites by the certificate holder only. Certificate is not transferrable to another person or company. The designation and acronym can only be used while the certificate is valid. When certificate is invalidated for any reason, the person can no longer use the designation and acronym.
Certificate term of validity is two years. In order to maintain the certificate, a student must obtain 20 PDUs or 2 CEUs (20 hours of continuing education) over a 24 month period. If the student fails to acquire sufficient continuing education, the certificate is invalidated.
Study course materials
Pass all knowledge checks, labs and exams
Student will receive Certificate of Completion upon completing the academic requirements of the Health&SafetyBench™ Curriculum. Student will also be Awarded a certificate upon completing the Occupational Health and Safety Management Professional™ exam. Certificate is available for download upon completion.
Occupational Health and Safety Management Professional™ - OHSMP
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The Center for Business Acceleration will strive to deliver its courselets and curriculums in accordance with the descriptions provided on the CBA website at the time of enrollment. However, in some situations it might be beneficial or necessary for the CBA to implement changes to courselets or curriculums. The changes will not be very substantial so as to have impact on students who have already started their courselet or curriculum. In some circumstances where it is necessary for the CBA to implement such changes after enrollment due to developments in the relevant subject, advances in teaching or evaluation practice, or requirements of accreditation processes, students will be notified of the changes made to courselets or curriculum immediately.