Education

An industrial hygienist tasked with devising an air filtration system at a manufacturing plant to prevent workers from being exposed to cancer-causing fumes. An agricultural safety specialist who examines equipment, evaluates procedures, and interacts with workers at a cattle farm to devise comprehensive safety protocols for machinery that can be deadly if misused. An occupational medicine physician whose treatment expertise regarding lower back pain enables an injured plumber to return to work and make ends meet.

These and myriad other kinds of occupational health and safety (OHS) professionals are essential to the protection of millions of U.S. workers — as well as the businesses that employ them, which both rely on a healthy workforce and have an economic interest in limiting costs related to workplace injuries and fatalities.

Our centers are where more than 13,500 of these professionals trained to become experts in their areas of focus. We boast graduate-level academic (and medical residency) programs in OHS disciplines such as agricultural safety, ergonomics, industrial hygiene, mining safety, occupational epidemiology, occupational health nursing, occupational health psychology, occupational injury prevention, occupational medicine, occupational safety, and radiation safety. 

The graduates of these programs work in all 50 states, across all industries, and have had an essential role in significant reductions in U.S. occupational injury and fatality rates.