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Program Details

Trained professionals are responsible for designing buildings, industrial equipment, and safety systems in order to protect workers, businesses, and society from the risk of contamination or accidental injury resulting from occupational practices. They understand the science of the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of health hazards resulting from the work environment. For any sort of hazard control, a professional is brought on in order to design systems and procedures for safety control, maintain those systems to keep those systems working correctly, or audit those systems to determine the quality of their controls to see if they meet a required code for safety.

The Master of Science in Occupational Safety program at East Carolina University prepares students for leadership roles the field of occupational safety and related fields by combining theoretical and practical coursework with an approach to real-world cases and situations where students can learn to apply their education to hypothetical and real situations relating to issues current to the field of occupational safety. 

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