Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health
(COSH)
A professionally oriented programme providing essential technical knowledge, risk assessment skills, and compliance awareness for modern workplace safety.
Programme Overview
The Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) is a professionally oriented programme designed to provide learners with essential knowledge and practical awareness of occupational health and workplace safety.
The programme focuses on identifying workplace hazards, assessing risks, preventing accidents, understanding OSH compliance requirements and promoting safe and healthy work environments. It is suitable for individuals working in industrial, commercial, construction, service, aviation, military, public and other workplace environments.
What You Will Learn
Module Overview
The curriculum is structured across 11 comprehensive modules, concluding with an applied workplace project to evaluate real-world hazard controls and safety procedures.
Understand the fundamental concepts of OSH, workplace hazards and risks, employer and employee responsibilities, safety culture and basic safety management principles.
Learn about physical, chemical, biological, mechanical, ergonomic and psychosocial hazards and their effects on workers.
Understand workplace accidents, their causes, unsafe acts and conditions, accident reporting, investigation and basic root cause analysis.
Develop an understanding of OSH legislation, workplace responsibilities, policies, inspections, documentation and compliance requirements.
Develop practical skills in identifying hazards, assessing risks, using risk matrices and selecting suitable control measures.
Learn methods of preventing and controlling workplace hazards through safe work procedures, engineering and administrative controls and PPE.
Understand ergonomic principles, workstation design, manual handling and methods of reducing ergonomic and musculoskeletal risks.
Gain basic knowledge of workplace exposure, air quality, ventilation, noise and occupational health monitoring.
Learn fire prevention, firefighting equipment, emergency evacuation and basic workplace emergency preparedness.
Learn how to promote employee wellbeing, safe behaviour, health awareness, employee engagement and positive safety culture.
Apply programme knowledge through a workplace observation, hazard survey or risk assessment and prepare a report with findings and recommendations.