Occupational Safety and Health

The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) graduate is educated to recognize, evaluate and control workplace hazards.  As such, this person is a valuable asset to the employer because the OSH professional helps prevent lost working time caused by either workplace health hazards or accidents.  Present-day managers realize that good worker health is vital to their operations.  Also, OSH professional understand safety and health law and therefore often assist their employers in complying with government regulations.

The Montana Tech OSH program is interdisciplinary and gives the student a background in the sciences and pertinent engineering areas.  Emphasis is placed on hand-on work in the laboratory and/or relating the subject matter to real world situations.

The quality of the program has been recognized by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health through annual training grants for scholarships and faculty development.

Plentiful opportunities exist for Internship appointments in government and industry.  Many scholarships are available to department majors on a competitive basis.

Applied Health Science Option

The OSH Applied Health Science (AHS) graduate is qualified to accept a job in a private health club, corporation, hospital, YMCA, or educational institution where they will perform health related fitness testing, and prescribe an individualized exercise program that will allow an individual to maintain or improve his/her fitness level.  The graduate is able to help the participant maintain an active lifestyle well into his/her senior years, thereby improving the overall quality of his/her life. Furthermore, since the AHS program is a degree option under the Occupational Safety and Health degree program, the AHS graduate will be able to assist a corporate employer with worker safety and health programs.

The AHS graduate will also be qualified for immediate enrollment in a variety of graduate programs dealing with industrial hygiene or other applied health fields.
The majority of our graduates attend graduate school, pursuing a variety of master's degrees.  They have pursued and graduated from physical therapy, cardiac rehabilitation, industrial hygiene, and other health science programs.

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