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BPH IN OCCUPATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY

  • To explain different terms and issues related to occupational and Environmental health and safety, focused to human health and natural sciences, and human behavior with an understanding of the environment, workplace and occupational and environmental health.
  • To impart knowledge and skill for the environment and environmental systems, the impact of human on the environment and environmental impacts on human, the importance of environmental safety when making technical, economic, political and other policy choices.
  • To provide knowledge and skill for the safety in workplaces, to identify hazardous situations and health problems due to occupational exposures and to identify occupational and work-related health problems in different workplaces and recognize the importance of socio-economic factors for healthy work practice when making technical, economic, political and other policy choices.
  • To confer knowledge on human behavior with an understanding of the natural environment, workplace environment, occupational and environmental health.
    To educate the students on ecology and environment, environmental degradation and depletion, environmental effects and impacts towards safe and sustainable and formulating policies and issues
  • To develop the capability of connecting science and society and balancing the needs of humans and other inhabitants with the needs to conserve the earth’s precious resources while formulating strategies, policies and approaches to management and solving environmental issues and reducing environmental impact.
  • To develop organizational, managerial and interpersonal skills of the professionals in the field of occupational and environmental health and safety and to formulate, recommend and develop strategies to prevent and control the health problems identified in the workplaces and surrounding environment.
  • To teach the students about epidemiological methods and toxicological techniques for evaluating problems in occupations, workplaces and surrounding environment and conduct research and formulate and recommend on important and current occupational and environmental health issues.

The Bachelor of Public Health (BPH) in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety (Hon’s) is a 4 years course. The program have the opportunity through extensive coursework, laboratory works, hands on training on relevant fields, academic field visit in various industries & places related to important occupational and environmental issues. Seminars and several projects to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to enter the workforce or to go on with further graduate education leading to MPH degree in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety or related discipline at home and abroad.

Year: 4
Semesters: 8
Credit: 160

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  • Candidate with SSC (Science Group) and HSC (Science Group) or their equivalents is eligible to apply with a minimum CGPA of 2.5 in either one and a combined CGPA of 6.
  • Foreign students with equivalent qualifications are eligible.
  • Equivalence will be decided by a committee called ‘Equivalence Committee’ formed by the Academic Council of BUHS.
  • Government and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO),
  • Environmental protection agencies,
  • Large and medium size industries,
  • United Nation and International Organizations,
  • Universities and research centers,
  • Consulting firms
  • Academicians and researcher, opportunity to join different educational and research institutes in Bangladesh and abroad.
  • There is a wider opportunity to obtain PhD in relevant issues.