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About The CourseWelcome to the CoursePlus Web site for OCCUPATION INJURY PREVENTION AND SAFETY PRACTICE (305.615.01), a course offered by the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Provides a link between the public health approach to injury prevention, the traditions of safety science and engineering, and their relationship with ergonomics and biomechanics. Topics covered include identifying the injury problem; using surveillance and record-keeping systems; preventing injuries by government, unions, health departments, and industry; and comparing safety sciences and a public health approach to injury prevention.
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- develop strategies for preventing occupational injuries based on the scientific literature
- describe a public health approach to occupational injury prevention
- evaluate the roles of industry, government, public health professionals, labor unions, and the media in preventing occupational injuries
- identify fundamental elements for evaluating interventions to prevent occupational injuries
- provide a critique of the occupational injury prevention literature
masters and doctoral students interested in injury prevention and those supported by the occupational injury training grant
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