This course provides students with hands-on experience in workplace safety management, as a health and safety professional. It is intended to provide participants with skills and strategies to manage and implement operational control of safety hazards and prevention programs. Through weekly lectures with subject matter experts, accident and workplace case studies, and workplace safety assessments, students will gain practical experience in the identification, evaluation, prevention and control of high-risk occupational safety hazards. Students will develop technical skills in hazard identification, qualitative risk assessment, control program assessment and development, legislation awareness and application, accident investigation and emergency preparedness, risk-based auditing, and application of safety management system frameworks. The course will also help students develop leadership skills including goal setting, action planning, project management, team building, and effective communications including concise and accurate report writing and presentations.