Griffith University - Online
Learn the skills necessary to enact a new kind of safety leadership that puts a focus on the practical expertise needed to get the job done. This graduate certificate will help you advance from the simple, linear cause-effect thinking that has typically characterised safety work in Australia and help you to challenge preoccupations with process and compliance. You will learn about resilience, complexity science and holism and be taken on an exciting journey into a new era of safety.
You will study a range of theories that focus on why accidents happen and how they can be prevented, including normal accidents theory, human reliability theory, as well as structural and interpretational perspectives to risk and safety. With this knowledge, you will be capable of critiquing safety practices and comparing and contrasting the strengths and weaknesses of accident models, ensuring your analysis and critical thinking can help improve safety systems in your own workplace.
By looking beyond the narrow understandings of safety that still exist at many organisations and institutions, you will understand how to address safety using safety management systems and the processes and procedures that have proven roles in achieving high safety standards. Importantly, you’ll view people as a solution to safety issues, not the problem, putting empathy at the centre of your plans to create a safe workplace.
The ATAR and Selection Rank profile is not available for this course.
Please refer to the Griffith University website for admission criteria information.
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