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MSc

Safety, Health and Environmental Management

Safeguard the environments of tomorrow. Hone your skills and gain vital knowledge for a career in Safety, Health or Environmental Management.

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Key Course Details

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Pontypridd

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

  • International students

    £16,900*

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Pontypridd

  • Campus Code

    A

Fees

With safety, health and environmental issues becoming increasingly important, there is growing demand for professionals with the right skills. The MSc Safety, Health and Environmental Management degree produces such health and safety practitioners, who can identify, assess, and solve health, safety, and environmental problems by applying principles of good management.

DESIGNED FOR

This course is designed for Health, Safety and Environmental Management professionals and those who want to understand more about such management systems and processes. It is designed for those professionals who want to work within business and industry to make a positive difference.

Accredited by

  • Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
  • International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IISRM)

Career Paths

  • Environmental manager
  • Health and Safety manager
  • Safety, Health and Environmental Manager

Skills taught

  • Health and Safety
  • Environmental management
  • Teamwork

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Course Highlights

Professionally Accredited

The course is professionally recognised and accredited by both the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IISRM).

Direct industry relevance

As well as industry-experienced staff who teach the different modules, the course welcomes current professionals to speak about the issues they face on projects. they are working on.

Global career prospects

There is a strong demand for this expertise around the world, with good job stability and earning potential.

Module Overview

On this course, you will develop your knowledge of technical subject areas through an extension into managing health and safety while giving due consideration to the sustainable economic development of business and the environment. Graduates can apply and progress towards the IIRSM fellow status and IOSH graduate status.

Health and Safety Management This module serves to provide students with core knowledge, understanding and skills to be able to create and develop an effective management system fully compliant with legal and statutory requirements.

Corporate Social Responsibility for Organisational Managers This module will look in detail at how ISO 26000 guidance is applied and the issues surrounding such implementation as part of a wider integrated management system.

Law for the Built Environment This module focuses on the importance of legal aspects of business law to underpin studies in corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Individual Dissertation Individual student research project focussing on a student’s chosen aspect of their subject.

Environmental Management: Focus on ISO 14001 Environmental Standard; evaluate business improvement strategies; topics include environmental planning, leadership, performance evaluation, KPIs like energy use, and audits.

Workplace Evaluation and Control: Systematic risk analysis of workplace hazards; understand legislative control; exceed legislative requirements for a safer workplace.

Business and Risk Management: Study of business management systems, communication, finances, and understanding risks at both strategic and operational levels.

Individual Dissertation: Guided, in-depth research project; learn research methodology, gather extensive evidence, critical analysis, argument synthesis, and present findings. Completed over two years.

Course Highlights

How you’ll learn

Delivery is mainly through workshops that encourage discussion and shared experience learning. Knowledge-based study is provided online and the workshops are designed to explore topics further through examples and practical application. 

Assessment takes many different forms, both individual and group. Assessments include reports (to promote professional delivery), case studies (to examine real projects), open book examinations (to test application as well as understanding), and presentations (to improve communication skills). 

Teaching staff

The MSc Safety, Health and Environmental Management subject offers an Open-Door policy, whereby students have access to staff at all times. We also offer a Personal Academic Coach for each of our students for the duration of their studies.

Facilities

Library facilities are available on all campuses and these are open to all USW students. As well as books and journals, the library is your gateway to online resources such as ebooks, databases and subject guides. You can book any specialist equipment you need for practical modules and access technical support when you need it.

Careers and Employability

Graduate Careers

This programme has been accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). Enrolled students can access IOSH Student Membership for the duration of their studies and, on successful completion, they will meet the academic requirements for Graduate (Grad IOSH) membership.

Our strong links help us tailor our courses to meet employer’s needs and ensure you graduate with the right skills to develop a career in construction. This industry relationship has been formalised into the Built Environment Strategic Forum (BESF). The mutual benefits arising from this partnership are significant and guarantee enhanced employability potential to our students and graduates.

Possible career paths

Graduate membership is the gateway to Chartered status. As IOSH is the only organisation in the world that offers Chartered membership to health and safety practitioners, this can help you achieve the highest professional standards and gain international recognition.

Career prospects are excellent, particularly as employers value the skills and experience you will gain. Opportunities exist in a variety of organisations, including environmental protection, and occupational safety and health in private and public sectors.

Careers Support

As a USW student, you will have access to advice from the Careers and Employability Service throughout your studies and after you graduate. The Built Environment has a dedicated careers advisor who will support you.

We also have extensive online resources for help with considering your career options and presenting yourself well to employers. Our employer database has over 2,000 registered employers targeting USW students, you can receive weekly email alerts for jobs.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Typical qualification requirements:

A good Honours degree in a relevant subject, or an appropriate professional qualification, or an HNC/HND with adequate managerial experience.

International applications welcomed:

We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.

English language requirements

International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.

Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.

If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.

If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.

Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

 

We're here to help

Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.

 

Fees and Funding

International Full-time Fee

£16,900

per year*
International Full-time Fee

£16,900

per year*

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

 

Fees and Funding Scholarships and Busaries Alumni Discount

Additional Costs

As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.

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University Quality Assurance

At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.

If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.

How to apply

There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).

International admissions

Please see our international admissions advice for further information about how to apply as a prospective international student.

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