This course, comprised of seven instructional modules, provides an understanding of how workplace health and safety programs can be made more impactful and effective by integrating them strategically. Modules 1 through 4 focus on the fundamentals of workplace health and productivity and workplace safety, offering advice on how to create and measure effective health and safety programming. Modules 5, 6 and 7 then offer a roadmap for integrating these programs together for greater impact, including how to create an overarching culture of health and safety. Included is instruction in the use of the Integrated Health and Safety Index, a new tool that helps employers establish, measure and track integrated health and safety programming.

This online Integrated Health and Safety course covers the following topics:

• ACOEM (American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine)
• HPM Strategies and Implementation
• Absenteeism and Presenteeism
• Trends Driving an HPM Philosophy
• Health Risks and Behaviors
• Investment and Management of Human Capital
• Workplace Fatalities, Injuries and Illnesses
• Effective Safety Programming
• Measuring Productivity & Benchmarking Tools
• Leading and Lagging
• Implementing a Measurement Program
• Linking Health and Safety
• Health and Safety Culture
• Ensure a Safe and Healthy Workplace
• And more!

By the end of this course, you will:

• Have a clear understanding of health and productivity management (HPM) and its principal components
• Know the key trends that are advancing the use of HPM in the workplace
• Recognize the impacts of poor health in the workplace
• Know how HPM adds value to an employer’s healthcare strategies
• Understand the trends in workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses
• Be able to describe the impact of safety on the workplace
• Recognize representative metrics used for quantifying health and productivity costs
• Characterize the features of available health and productivity measurement tools
• Recognize the role of leading and lagging indicators, key performance indicators (KPIs) and data selection in assessing safety
• Gain an understanding of concepts of the Integrated Health and Safety (IHS) Index

Approximately 5 hours

Testing conducted throughout this online course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to pass this course. The course is able to be taken three times in efforts to achieve the pass mark. Printable resources are available in the form of a comprehensive student manual. The manual is a valuable resource for future use and knowledge retention.

Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available for download and printing.