Next START: September 2014
2 years part-time
Mondays and Thursdays: 6:15 – 9:00
I would like to invite you to
take a brief tour of the MSc
OccHealth with me …
Dr. Birgit Greiner, Course Director
This MSc is an integrated
course in occupation
health, safety and welfare
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Western Gateway Building, on
Western Road, a 5- minute walk from
the main campus
A modern building with excellent teaching rooms, access to a state-of-the-art
library with access to health & safety books and journals, a restaurant with
evening hours and modern computer facilities
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 We
support our MSc students to
professionally and passionately engage
in health & safety practice and research
and to provide leadership to others.
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 The
course encourages a pro-active
approach in assessing and controlling
both physical and psychosocial work
hazards in an effort to prevent disease,
injuries and accidents at work, to
promote health, and to create safe and
healthy work cultures and conditions.
Dpt. Epi&Public Health - University College Cork 2013
 Our
lecturers are experienced college
lecturers, health & safety trainers and
professionals, industry experts and
scientific researchers.
 All
share the passion for health & safety:
preventing accidents, injuries and
diseases in the workplace and creating
healthy and safe working conditions!
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If you are a health & safety professional,
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A safety officer, manager or representative
An occupational health nurse
A safety engineer
A self-employed health and safety consultant
and want to deepen your skills and
knowledge in this area
Or …
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If you are …
 working in a human resources
department or in people management
 an environmental science specialist
 a health care professional such a nurse,
a doctor, an occupational therapist …
and would like to focus your career on
occupational health and safety practice
or
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 If
you are at the beginning of your career
and have a primary degree in a cognate
area such as
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public health and health promotion
environmental science
engineering
psychology, sociology
and other related fields
 and
want to enter the exciting field of
occupational health
Or …
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 If
you have a relevant professional
qualification and professional
experience
 and
would like to re-orient your career
towards health & safety practice
Dpt. Epi&Public Health - University College Cork 2013
Public health
and
epidemiology
Health
psychology,
work
psychology
Occupational
medicine and
nursing
Occupation
al health
Training &
development
Law
Ergonomics,
safety
engineering,
industrial
hygiene
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Risk assessment and management of stressful working
conditions
Health hazard evaluation
Principles and practice of behaviour-based safety
programmes
Work organisational factors, safety and health
Health promotion in the workplace
Ergonomical work design to prevent musculoskeletal injury
Application of health & safety and employment law
Implementation of a health and safety management systems
Critical appraisal of health and safety statistics
Efficient searches for scientific information and publications
Concepts of risk, risk perception and risk management
Applied research for occupational health
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Social worker in a charity
Human resources manager in a
hospital
Psychology graduate with industrial
work placement experience
School principal
Clinical nurse
specialist
Self employed health & safety
consultant
Graduate in environmental health
Chemical data management officer
in pharmaceutical industry
Airport electrician
Construction site manager
Health and safety manager in food
industry
Fire fighter
Process safety engineer
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Retrieval and appraisal of
health and safety research
evidence is one major part
of the course aimed at
encouraging evidencebased decision making
Relate to
research
evidence
Change
practice
Practical
problem
Reflect
on own
practice
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Find
best
practice
Relate to
experience
Reflection on and
learning from
previous professional
experiences will be
encouraged
We use …
 Formal lectures by qualified academics and
practitioners
 Interactive discussion sessions
 Student interactive work on case studies
 Student group and individual presentations
 Site visits
 Reflective practice exercises
 Computer and library labs
 Independent study and research
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Year 1 (40 credits)
Year 2 (50 credits)
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Taught
5 modules
– Research methods and
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information retrieval in
occupational health (5)
Occupational health and
safety management (10)
Psychosocial
epidemiology (10)
Integrative occupational
health psychology (5)
Critical appraisal of
publications and legal
aspects (10)
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Taught and research
2 taught modules (15)
– Training and
development issues (5)
– Principles, theory and
practical application of
risk assessment and
management (10)
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Research module (35)
– Tutorials
– Meetings with thesis
supervisor
– Thesis
 Written
exams (4 in year 1)
 Student presentations
 Student case studies
 Literature reviews
 Critical appraisal of a publication
 Site visit reflection
 Student research project (thesis)
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In the second year you will
conduct a piece of research on
an occupational health and
safety topic of your choosing.
Example topics of previous graduates:
•Can focus on human factors (safety behavioral training & a participative safety
management model) change the safety culture in a manufacturing industry
•Developing and benchmarking an emergency response protocol for a manufacturing
company
•Burnout in teachers and student stress experience
•The relationship between organizational justice, safety performance and health in a
manufacturing setting
•A comparison of the risk perception of Polish and Irish workers in a construction company
•Health and safety awareness of young workers
•A profile ofDpt.
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Class of 2005 - 2007
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Class of 2009 - 2011
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You are invited to join a vibrant health and safety network at UCC which
includes previous graduates and health & safety lecturers.
You will be invited to Master classes held by
experts in the field. Previous speakers were
•Herbert Mulligan: Editor of the Health and
Safety Reviews
•Dr. Harry Comber: Director of the Irish
Cancer Registry
•Eamonn O’Sullivan: Health and Safety
Authority
•Patricia Murray: Health and Safety Authority
We also use the expertise of our previous graduates.
They contribute to
•lecturing
•mentoring new students
•and student tutoring
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 Managerial
responsibilities in industry or
public sector
 Consulting
 Lecturing
 Research
 Human resources, welfare
 Health Service Executive, Health and
Safety Authority
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Contact us:
Sara Leitao (coordinator): s.leitao@ucc.ie
Dr. Birgit Greiner : b.greiner@ucc.ie
Lynda Coughlan: l.coughlan@ucc.ie
http://www.ucc.ie/en/epid/postgrad/masters-occupation-
health/
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