SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Online and Off-Campus in the Eastern and Northern Panhandle

The Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources offers the Safety Management program in a blended format with online and on-site classes in Martinsburg and Wheeling. Students will have the best of both academic experiences - the flexibility of online learning, short courses, and valuable face-to-face time for critical laboratory courses.

Students will take 12 courses:

• 6 courses are offered completely online;
• 4 courses are offered face-to-face in a classroom in Martinsburg or Wheeling;
• 1 course is mostly online with two on-site (Martinsburg or Wheeling) labs; and
• 1 course can be taken as an internship or an online course.

Each course is seven weeks long. Two courses will be offered per term and will run consecutively. The face-to-face courses will be offered on Saturdays. Students will enroll together in a cohort model and should be able to complete the program in five semesters (approximately 2.5 years).

Financial Aid

Financial Aid is available for those who qualify. Interested students can complete the online application by visiting http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/. The WVU FAFSA school code is 003827.

Accreditation

The safety management degree program is accredited by the Applied Science Accreditation Commission (ASAC) of the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET). It is designed for students trained in a wide variety of backgrounds, including the areas of business and economics, agriculture and forestry, chemical, physical, and biological sciences, engineering and technology sciences, and medical sciences, who have an interest in safety, health, and environmental management.

Admission Criteria

Admission as a regular student requires:

• 3.00 or above undergraduate GPA
• A baccalaureate degree based on a minimum of 120 semester hours or the equivalent that must include 63 or more semester-hour credits in undergraduate or graduate-level courses in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology, including applied science and applied science specialties, with at least 15 of those at the upper (junior, senior or graduate) level A minimum of 21 semester-hour credits, or the equivalent, in social sciences, humanities, and communications.

Admission as a provisional student requires:

• 2.75 or above undergraduate GPA
• The minimum semester hours and coursework as specified for a regular student or when one or two developmental courses (3-8 hours) must be taken to meet the minimum coursework requirement.

Provisional students may apply for regular status after successfully completing a 3.25 GPA in their first 12 hours of course work and/or completing developmental course work. Students who are missing more than 8 hours of required course work for admission and want to take developmental courses to prepare for application should contact the Safety Management program by e-mail at: cemr-safm-admit@mail.wvu.edu.

Program Requirements

• 36 hours of coursework and a comprehensive exam at completion of coursework
  OR
• 33 hours of coursework, and an approved problem report
  OR
• 30 hours of coursework and an approved thesis
• Students without significant work experience in the safety, health or environmental area are required to complete an internship, which accounts as one 3-hour course.

NOTE: Students must have a graduate GPA of 3.0 in order to graduate

Course Content

Students will study safety management integration, how to control environmental and personnel hazards, safety legislation and compliance, safety evaluation and research, managing fire safety, loss control and recovery, safety and health training, and industrial hygiene engineering.

Proposed Course Schedule

Semester	Course Number	Course Title	Delivery Type	Req/Elect.
Fall 2011	SAFM 501	Safety Management Integration	Class	R
	SAFM 502	Controlling Env. & Personnel Hazards	On-line	R
Spring 2012	SAFM 505	Safety Legislation & Compliance	Class	R
	SAFM 528	Economic Aspects of Safety	On-line	R
Summer 2012	SAFM 533	Disaster Preparedness	On-line	E
Fall 2012	SAFM 534	Fire Safety Management	On-line	R
	SAFM 550	Loss Control & Recovery	Class	R
Spring 2013	SAFM 640	Instrumentation for Safety Managers	On-line **	R
	SAFM 580	Fundamentals of Env. Management	On-line	E
Summer 2013	SAFM 689*	Prof. Field Exp. (Internship)	---	R/E
	SAFM 552	Safety & Health Training	Class	R
Fall 2013	SAFM 539 /Appr. Tech. El.*	Security Management	On-line	E
	Appr. Tech. El.*		On-line	E

* Students without significant work experience in the safety, health or environmental area are required to complete an internship. The internship will be available every semester and not only in Summer 2013. Those who have the work experience may take an Approved Technical Elective course instead of the internship. Only one technical elective course may be included in the program.
** Online + In-class Lab