IRE1655H: Health and Safety

This course will focus on the organisational, legal, social, political and economic dimensions of occupational health and safety. The course will begin with a discussion of the key constructs and components of the occupational health and safety system, and the principal actors in it. We will review how regulation and its enforcement work, and the breadth of their reach. We will also discuss the primary and secondary prevention mandate historically held by workers' compensation, and how it has evolved over time. The bulk of the course involves looking beyond the basic components and mandate of the occupational health and safety system to understand system design, the recognition of health and safety risks, and the management of risk in the workplace.

Credit Value (FCE)

0.50

Campus(es)

St. George

Delivery Mode

In Class

School of Graduate Studies University of Toronto 63 St. George Street Toronto, ON Canada M5S 2Z9
Tel: 416-978-6614

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We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.