Strategic Leadership in Occupational Safety and Health Middlesex University

This is a professional practice award based on the IOSH Competency Framework with modules designed to integrate practice from your working environment with academia. Action, research and reflection (core to the PSRB's PDA and CPD) is built in to the programme with the project enabling you to do a ‘deep dive' into a practice-based activity.

This course is aimed at:

• Part time UK applicants in practice to enable students to remain and integrate learning with their working environment

• Full time UK applicants in practice (whose employers will give them the time to study on a full-time basis)

• International students able to get placements through international organisations with offices in the UK and who can get a student visa.

Why Study Strategic Leadership in Occupational Safety and Health at Middlesex?

On graduation you will have a systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current problems and/or new insights, much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of Occupational Safety and Health. You will understand the application of (local) health and safety law and champion interventions establishing an acceptable level of risk.

You will have a comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to your own research or advanced scholarship being able to inform decisions through the interpretation of data from a multitude of sources, undertake action research in the workplace and provide change leadership in organisations.

Assignments will help you develop and improve a range of communication and engagement strategies and give you transferrable leadership skills that will create broader employability skills outside of safety and health risk areas and be able to lead a multi-disciplinary team.

What Will You Learn?

In year 1 of the part time route students will cover operational aspects of their professional discipline focusing on the management of Healthy Workplaces and Industrial Hygiene, together with H&S Practice; Operational Risks and Technology. This will challenge students to critically the practice of themselves and their organisation.

In year 2 students will develop decision making, change and broader strategic thinking through the two modules on Strategic Risk Management and Leadership, Change and Project Management.

The culmination of the programme is the MSc workplace project through practice-based learning. This will develop students' intellectual and interpersonal abilities, thereby deepening their critical comprehension of real-world applications and develop key competencies such as co-leadership, employability, employer engagement and develop digital literacy skills.

Entry requirements for this course

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