Monday, October 24, 2011

IUP Launches Safety Sciences Doctoral Program


Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s (IUP) Safety Sciences program has graduated. Beginning summer 2013, the program will now offer a doctoral degree.

The program is designed to prepare SH&E professionals with advanced skills in the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control and prevention of workplace SH&E hazards.

“IUP’s program is unique in that it is designed to be a very comprehensive offering, not just focused on one or two aspects of the safety curriculum and not focused on an engineering curriculum,” says IUP’s Chris Janicak, coordinator of the graduate program. “This program will help to fill the need for safety educators, which is growing throughout the nation.”

The IUP doctoral program joins the Safety Sciences’ existing bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, which have graduated more than 1,700 students since 1973.