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.