The aim of the Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management is to provide students who already have a degree, or extensive applicable experience, with advanced theoretical and applied knowledge of occupational health and safety management, which can be used in professional practice or further advanced study in this area.
One year full-time
Up to five years part-time
Intakes are 17 weeks long
2024 Intake 1: 12 February to 7 June - Applications Close 29 January 2024
2024 Intake 2: 18 March to 12 July - Applications Close 11 March 2024
2024 Intake 3: 24 June to 18 October - Applications Close 10 June 2024
2024 Intake 4: 29 July to 22 November - Applications Close 15 July 2024
Fees Free
First year of tertiary study
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International Fees
$25000
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The Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management will teach you personal and professional skills that are necessary to be successful in demanding and evolving business environments.
This programme offers a blend of theoretical and practical learning, with an emphasis on applied knowledge and skill. High importance is placed on the development of occupational health and safety management skills (such as communication, presentation, interpersonal and problem solving skills) in addition to the development of specific business knowledge.
You will learn to:
*As of 01 January 2022, SIT2LRN has updated the paper codes to be in line with other Southern Institute of Technology’s qualifications. The paper name and content are the same.
Please ensure that you are selecting the correct papers when you enrol online as the application will now show the new paper codes.
Please see the table below for the old and new codes:
Students must complete one of the following two elective papers:
MGT608 Organisational Behaviour (15 credits)
This paper provides students with a strong background and understanding of organisational and motivational theories and the application of these in the development of internal and external environmental analyses for an organisation.
On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to:
MGT617 Occupational Health and Safety Intervention Programme Design and Evaluation (15 credits)
This paper provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop and evaluate both occupational health and occupational safety programmes and reporting systems. In this paper students will undertake identification of sources of information to assist in the development and evaluation of intervention programme strategies to reduce the incidence and severity of work-related injury and illness.
MGT711 Occupational Health and Safety Sustainability Practices (15 credits)
This paper will challenge traditional organisational sustainability practices, looking at how sustainable strategies need to consider and incorporate health and safety issues, needs and requirements, to enable organisations to be considered truly sustainable entities.
MGT615 Occupational Health and Safety Management Practice Leadership (15 credits)
This paper provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to be champions for occupational health and occupational safety to enable development of leadership and building of an organisational health and safety culture. This paper will also enable students to develop an understanding of aspects of leadership, leadership style and methods for dealing with leadership problems.
MGT702 Research Methodology (15 credits)
*Note: This paper must be completed prior completing MGT730 or MGT731 and requires a final weighted grade of B- or higher to pass the paper.
This paper will introduce students to the skills required to complete a research project. It will cover advanced research skills, various methodologies available to gather and present primary and secondary information and data, and it will take students through the literature review process.
MGT712 Workplace Health and Wellbeing Strategies (15 credits)
Student will learn about strategies for developing health and wellbeing programmes within the workplace, analysing the role of leadership and management in the implementation and continuation of health and wellbeing initiatives, and develop metrics to measure the success of health and wellbeing programmes.
MGT713 Occupational Health Strategic Management (15 credits)
This paper aims to provide participants with an understanding of the issues and implications for an organisation regarding occupational health and the ability to critically evaluate strategic management approaches in various contexts within an organisation.
MGT714 Occupational Safety Strategic Management (15 credits)
This paper aims to provide participants with an understanding of the issues and implications for an organisation regarding occupational safety and the ability to critically evaluate strategic management approaches in various contexts within an organization.
Compulsory - Choose either 730 or 731
OHS730 Management Research Project (30 credits)
This paper provides students with an opportunity to conduct advanced research into an aspect of management theory or practice by integrating the body of knowledge learnt in management papers.
On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to select a current management issue or applied management problem and formulate an appropriate research objective and research question, plan, organise and implement a research project, select and apply appropriate research methodologies, collect, analyse and interpret research data, write a research report to a professional standard, make an oral presentation of the management-related research project and answer relevant questions raised.
You are expected to:Identify and investigate a current management issue based on personal interest, benefit to an organisation, popular topic or a gap in research you have identified
Approach
Total Word Count: Approximately 12,000 words
OHS731 Internship (30 credits)
This paper provides students with an opportunity to become familiar with the micro and macro operating environments of an organization and to apply the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the course of their degree study. Using knowledge and skills gained in the first two years of the degree, students will be enabled to present a development/problem-solving proposal in an area relevant to the internship organization. Students will also gain reflective skills through the reflection on the internship and how their personal and professional managerial skills have developed and broadened.
On successful completion of this paper, students will be able to, critically evaluate an organisation’s corporate direction, main activities, and identify and evaluate the internal environment of the internship organisation, evaluate the organisation’s operating environment and the role of the internship organisation within the industry, assess and rationalise to all stakeholders significant issues confronting the internship organisation, specifically an aspect of concern or interest to the organisation’s operation or management, conduct and critically evaluate primary research regarding the specific aspect to be stated, distinguish between critical and non-critical factors impacting on the problem/development, evaluate information and make recommendations for specific development/problem, consider and assess issues for implementing recommendations, critically assess the dilemmas, challenges and problems faced, and how these issues were resolved during the internship, critically evaluate how the knowledge and skills acquired during the degree programme were adapted into practical situations.
You are expected to:Identify and Investigate a current management issue within your internship organisation
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Recent graduates of the Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management have gained employment in private and public sectors including training institutions and industrial businesses, or furthered their career in their current employment, gaining additional responsibilities.
Applicants must have obtained at least an undergraduate degree in any discipline.
Mature ApplicantsApplicants must supply evidence of at least three years relevant work experience. Each mature applicant must provide their curriculum vitae detailing any relevant work experience and academic achievements. The Programme Manager will use this information to assess whether the applicant is likely to successfully complete the Graduate Diploma programme.
All enrolments in the Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management are approved at the discretion of the Programme Manager in consultation with the Head of Faculty and teaching staff, as required.
English Language Requirements
Applicants, whose first language is not English, or who come from a country where the language of instruction in schools is not English, are required to provide evidence of having achieved one of the following
NCEA Level 3 with University Entrance, or
an International Baccalaureate Diploma or Cambridge A- level qualification for which the teaching and assessment was conducted in English; or
Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA),or Trinity College London Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CertTESOL);or
Successful completion of all primary education (being the equivalent of New Zealand primary school years 1 to 8) and at least three years of secondary education (being the equivalent of three years from New Zealand secondary school years 9 to 13) at schools in either New Zealand,,Australia,Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States one of the countries listed in Rule 18.5 where the student was taught using English as the language of instruction; or
Successful completion of at least five years of secondary education (being the equivalent of New Zealand secondary school years 9 to 13) at schools in either New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States where the student was taught using English as the language of instruction; or
Successful completion of a Bachelor's Degree, Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Bachelor Honours degree, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, Masters' Degree or Doctoral Degree, the language of instruction of which must be in English and which must be from a tertiary education provider from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom or the United States or
Successful completion of one of the following internationally recognised proficiency tests listed below to the level required of the programme of study and with all scores achieved in a single test during the two years preceding the proposed date of enrolment
IELTS test - Academic score of 6 with no band score lower than 5.5 TOEFL Paper based test (pBT) - Score of 550 (with an essay score 5 TWE) TOEFL Internet based test (iBT) - Score of 60 (with a writing score of 18) Cambridge English Examination - B2 First or B2 First for schools or C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency with a score of 169. No less than 162 in each skill. OET - Minimum of Grade C or 200 in all sub-tests NZCEL - a) Expiring Level b) Current: a) Level 4 (Academic) b) Level 4 (Academic) Pearson Test of English (Academic) - PTE (Academic) score of 50 with no band score lower than 42 Language Cert - C1 Expert International ESOL Written (LRW) PASS with no less than 25/50 in each skill and Spoken (S) PASS Trinity ISE - ISE II with no less than distinction in any band
* New versions of some NZCEL qualifications, and in some cases new qualifications, were published on 13 June 2017. These are intended to replace pre-existing versions and qualifications, which have been given expiring status until discontinued on 31 December 2019. (a) denotes expiring (b) denotes current
Level 6 papers must be completed before, or at the same time as, level 7 papers unless approved by the programme manager. Papers at the same level may be studied in any order
Full time study
Full time study is completing 60 credits per intake. Students studying full time will complete the Graduate Diploma within two intakes (one year)
Full time acceptance into the programme is at the Programme Manager’s discretion.
Part time study
The number of credits selected per intake will depend on work, family, and other commitments. The recommended maximum number of credits per intake, compared to working hours, are:
Additional information
All SIT2LRN courses require you to have a computer and Internet access. Students are required to use their SIT webmail only for all SIT2LRN communications. All course materials and information, including assessments and due dates, are located on the online Blackboard system. Once you have been accepted into a programme you will receive an Important Information Booklet that includes information that you can use to familiarise yourself with our online Blackboard learning environment. From the intake start date you will have access to the online course materials to work through.
Facilitator Assistance: During the enrolled intake period, students have email access to Facilitators, who endeavour to respond to emails within 48 hours (week days only). All students are required, within the first two weeks of an intake, to send an email to their Facilitator confirming their start on the programme of study. Students who have not emailed their facilitator or embarked upon their course of study by the end of the 2nd week of an intake, will be Faculty Withdrawn from the programme. Such withdrawals may impact on future access to SIT Zero Fees Scheme and Student Direct Material Costs are still liable for payment.
Progress reports are sent out 6-8 weeks after the end of each intake.
We recommend students new to SIT2LRN read through the Frequently Asked Questions section of our website for further study and enrolment information.
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What happens next?
To be awarded the Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management, students will have been credited with all required papers and electives as specified in the schedule of papers. The total credit value of the Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management is 120 credits.
Please note: Students failing to engage in study as per programme requirements may forfeit Zero Fees entitlement.
Assessments may include, but are not limited to: tests, assignments, case studies, presentations, reports and final examinations.
Assessments for the Management Research Project and Internship papers may also include a research proposal, literature review, research report and presentation.
For more information on required and recommended textbooks for this course please refer to the textbook list here.
Please note that textbooks need to be ordered at least 3-4 weeks prior to the commencement of your study