Distance Learning option available since 1998 over the Internet. Check out the Home Page for the OHS Distance Learning program. The Occupational Health and Safety program prepares individuals who will work independently or as part of a team to make the workplace safer and healthier by identifying potential job-related hazards and possible ways to address them through engineering solutions, administrative practices and the training and education of workers in safe and healthy work practices.
Students receive traditional classroom instruction as well as hands-on experience.
The Associate in Applied Science Degree is accepted by the Joint Committee on Certification of Occupational Health and Safety Technologists and entitles graduates to sit for the OHST examination. Graduates who earn an Associate Degree may transfer directly into the University of Southern Maine's baccalaureate degree program in Industrial Technology with a concentration in Environmental Safety and Health.