The Australian OHS Education Accreditation Board announced this week that the Graduate Diploma and Master in Occupational Health and Safety, conducted by the Western Australian-based Edith Cowan University (ECU) had achieved accreditation of their Graduate Diploma and Masters in Occupational Health and Safety by meeting the OHS and educational standards set by the Accreditation Board for education of generalist OHS professionals.
These OHS programs conducted by ECU are fully distance programs, and as they are offered in association with an occupational hygiene program, have a strong technical base. The program has been recently reviewed and restructured and has a history of attracting aspiring and current OHS advisors across many industries including mining.

While Graduate Diploma and Masters programs require a bachelor degree as a minimum entry requirement, ECU also offers an alternative route of entry via a graduate Certificate program which is suitable for experienced practitioners with VET qualifications which leads into the Graduate Diploma of Occupational Health and Safety.

Associate Professor Sue Reed of ECU advised that such students entering the OHS programs often did not realise the demands of tertiary study. ECU is working to ensure that students are aware of the requirements of tertiary study before committing to the program as well as supporting them in their professional development.
Accreditation Board Registrar Pam Pryor said that the objective of the Accreditation Board was to ensure that quality professional education was available to aspiring and current OHS professionals and that this required a range of programs with differing emphases to meet the various OHS needs of industry. Edith Cowan University is such an example.

RMIT University and Latrobe University led the way in achieving accreditation of their post graduate OHS programs in 2012 with Monash University recently achieving accreditation.

Go to www.ohseducationaccreditation.org.au
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Edith Cowan University contact

Postgraduate Coordinator:
OSH Course work Associate Professor Sue Reed
s.reed@ecu.edu.au 08 6304 2243 or 0418 216 325.

ECU Corporate Communications Manager Rhys Stacker,
r.stacker@ecu.edu.au, (08) 6304 2131

Australian OHS Education Accreditation Board contacts:

Registrar Pam Pryor,
registrar@ohseducationaccreditation.org.au,
Mob 0411 193370

Education advisor and member of the Accreditation Board,
Professor Bruce King,
Bruce.king@unisa.edu.au, Mob 0427 269 261