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Bachelor of Science in Industrial Safety Requirements

Total Semester Credit Hours = 120

Industrial Safety is a field of study designed to prepare technical and/or management oriented professionals for employment as Environmental Health and Safety professionals in business, industry, education, and government. Industrial Safety is primarily involved with the management of comprehensive safety program elements within the private and public sector agencies and organizations. These elements may include OSHA and EPA compliance, analysis and control of hazards, workers compensation, emergency planning, safety training, facilities safety, employee wellness, accident investigation, and record keeping.

Program Objectives

1. To instill within the student the concepts of how to effectively reduce the cost associated with workplace incidents and injuries through the use of effective risk management control techniques.
2. To become proficient in the analysis of risks and develop specific loss control processes to improve efficiency, productivity, quality and safety in the workplace.
3. To correctly identify hazards and exposures which dictate implementation of required corrective actions to remediate and control risks to workers, property, equipment, tools and financial resources.
4. To become familiar with using loss control trends, common analysis techniques reports to prepare comprehensive safety business plans for guiding an organization's incident prevention process to include compliance with state and federal safety/environmental laws.

To identify behavioral safety concepts that best provide holistic motivation approaches for creating an organizational culture which subscribes to a belief that all accidents and injuries are unacceptable and preventable by using a progressive system approach to safety.

Suggested Four-Year Curriculum

Freshman Year

First Semester
ENGL 1301:	Grammar and Composition I
Lab Science
TECH 1301:	Technology and Society
TECH 1303:	Engineering Graphics`
Total Hours:	16
Second Semester
ENGL 1302:	Grammar and Composition II
MATH 1314:	College Algebra
HIST 1301:	United States History I
TECH 1330	Fundamentals of Electronics
Total Hours:	12

Sophomore Year

First Semester
Lab Science
HIST 1302:	United States History II
POLS 2305:	Intro. American Gov.
TECH 2311:	Mechanical and Fluid Systems
TECH 2330:	Info. Tech. and Commun.
Total Hours:	16
Second Semester
PSYC 1301	Intro. to Psychology
POLS 2306:	Intro. Texas Politics
ENGL 2323:	English Literature
TECH 2320:	Accident Prevention
Total Hours:	12

Junior Year

First Semester
MANA 3311:	Org. Behavior and Leadership

Fine and Performing Arts Elective

TECH 4310:	Total Quality Management
HRD 4333:	Human Relations
TECH 4330:	Occupational Safety and Health
Total Hours:	15
Second Semester
MATH 1342:	Statistics
TECH 4301:	Supervision
TECH 3344:	Industrial Safety
TECH 4300:	Fire Safety Systems
Elective
Elective
Total Hours:	18

Senior Year

First Semester
TECH 4370:	Undergraduate Internship
TECH 4332:	Industrial Environmental Problems
SPCM 1315:	Fundamentals of Speech
MANA 3320:	Human Resource Management
Elective
Total Hours:	15
Second Semester
TECH 4320:	Job Analysis Techniques
TECH 4372:	Technology Capstone
MANA 4335:	Industrial Relations
TECH 4173:	Electronic Portfolio
Elective
Elective
Total Hours:	16

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