The Graduate Diploma in Safety Health and Environmental Management at Midlands State University trains students to connect safety, health, and environmental theories and practice. It covers occupational health and safety, environmental management, and geo-information sciences, with specialist work on occupational safety, health, and environmental risk and hazard identification, assessment, and management. Students study topics such as environmental safety and health, occupational health and safety, environmental legislation, and geographic information systems and remote sensing.
Teaching uses lectures, tutorials, laboratory activities, seminars, group work, field-based activities, industrial visits, research projects, and individual independent study. Assessment includes written and oral examinations, tests, written and practical assignments, laboratory reports, field reports, and seminar presentations. The programme runs for 18 months and includes a research project at Level 2 Semester 1. It is designed to prepare students for careers in environmental management, research institutions, academia, consultancy, and related safety and health and environmental planning roles.
Modules
- DGES 531 Introduction to Environmental Safety and Health
- DGES 532 Environmental Safety and Health Legislation
- DGES 533 Occupational Health and Safety
- DGES 534 Population, Health and the Environment
- DGES 535 Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing
- DGES 536 Research Methods for Safety, Health and Environmental Management
- DGES 537 Environmental Management in Industry
- DGES 538 Water Supply and Sanitation
- DGES 539 Environmental Impact Assessment
- DGES 540 Waste Management
- DGES 541 Environmental Economics
- DGES 631 Research Project
