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Bachelor of Science in Technical Management - Occupational Safety and Health

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Overview

Creating and maintaining a safe work environment and protecting workers from hazards has become a critical issue in nearly every industry. The Occupational Safety and Health Specialty was developed to prepare students for supervisory or management positions relating to occupational safety and health in environmental compliance, ergonomics, industrial hygiene and toxicology, construction, fire protection, and systems design.

This program is geared toward students who are seeking new opportunities in the public or private sector such as service or manufacturing industries, local, state, or federal agencies, and the military.

To earn the Technical Management degree with an Occupational Safety & Health Specialization, degree-seeking students must complete the program support, business core, and management electives, as listed below, as well as the specified upper-level open elective requirements for this specialization.

Requirements

 Safety Courses Required
Course / TitleCredits
SFTY 311 Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health3
SFTY 315 Environmental Compliance and Safety3
SFTY 321 Ergonomics3
SFTY 355 Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology3
SFTY 360 Construction Safety3
SFTY 365 Fire Protection3
SFTY 410 Design of Engineering Hazard Controls -OR- 
SFTY 420 Systems Design for Fire and Life Safety3
Occupational Safety And Health Specialty21
 General Education
Course / TitleCredits
Embry-Riddle courses in the general education categories of Communication Theory and Skills, and Humanities and Social Sciences may be chosen from those listed above, assuming prerequisite requirements are met. Courses from other institutions are acceptable if they fall into those broad categories and are at the level specified.
Communication Theory and Skills: 
ENGL 123 English Composition3
Speech/English6
Humanities/Social Sciences*: 
Humanities lower or upper-level elective3
Social Science lower or upper-level elective
History/Government/Social Science/Psychology
3
*For BS, one course must be an upper-level Humanities or Social Science elective.
Physical and Life Science lower-level elective: 
Physics/Biology/Meteorology6
Mathematics: 
MATH 111 & MATH 112 -OR- 
MATH 140 & MATH 142, MATH 320*6
*MATH 320 may be substituted as the second course in the series.
Computer Science: 
CSCI 109 Introduction to Computers and Applications3
Economics: 
ECON 210 Microeconomics3
ECON 211 Macroeconomics3
Total Credits36
 Program Support
Course / TitleCredits
ASCI 202 Introduction to Aeronautical Science3
MATH 211 Statistics with Aviation Applications -OR- 
MATH 222 Business Statistics3
MGMT 201 Principles of Management3
MGMT 210 Financial Accounting3
MGMT 221 Advanced Computer Based Systems3
Total Credits15
 Business Core
Course / TitleCredits
MGMT 311 Marketing3
MGMT 312 Managerial Accounting3
MGMT 314 Human Resource Management3
MGMT 317 Organizational Behavior3
MGMT 320 Business Information Systems3
MGMT 325 Social Responsibility and Ethics in Management3
MGMT 335 International Business3
MGMT 371 Leadership3
MGMT 390 Business Law3
MGMT 436 Strategic Management3
Total Credits30
Course / TitleCredits
Safety: 
SFTY 341 Occupational Safety and Health Program Management3
SFTY 440 System Safety Management3
SFTY 450 Loss Control and Insurance3
SFTY 470 Advanced Occupational Safety and Health Technology3
Total Credits12
Electives
Course / TitleCredits
Open Electives6
Total Degree Requirements120