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Public Health and Safety focuses on injury and disease prevention in public spaces. Graduates may work for an environmental or public health agency at the municipal, provincial, or federal level, promoting health and safety awareness and enforcing laws that protect human health. As health care representatives, they may become involved in such issues as tobacco enforcement, West Nile Virus, SARS, water quality, and food handling.
Students learn to anticipate, evaluate, and control a wide variety of health hazards in all areas of society -- restaurants, workplaces, schools, hospitals, beaches, swimming pools, day cares, and nursing homes--eventually becoming experts in illness prevention.
The program also prepares students for professional certification at the national level by the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors (CIPHI). National certification permits graduates to seek employment opportunities across Canada as a Public Health Inspector (PHI).
The curriculum is designed around eight major themes:
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First & second year courses include:
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The co-op experience includes five, four-month work terms in organizations in Ontario, Canada, and potentially abroad. To get the co-op designation students must successfully complete four of the five work terms. The first work term begins in the summer following 2nd year studies.
Public Health & Safety co-op students may find work in municipal public heath units and agencies, healthcare facilities, government, manufacturing, food companies, and education.
Co-op students should be open to relocating to improve their chances of finding work, as good job opportunities are often available in cities outside the greater Toronto area.
For more information on the Public Health & Safety program visit department site www.ryerson.ca/sophe/
| YEAR |  Fall |
 Winter |
 Summer |
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| 1st | SEMESTER 1 | SEMESTER 2 | |
| 2nd | SEMESTER 3 | SEMESTER 4 | Work Term 1 |
| 3rd | SEMESTER 5 | Work Term 2 | Work Term 3 |
| 4th | Work Term 4 | SEMESTER 6 | Work Term 5 |
| 5th | SEMESTER 7 | SEMESTER 8 | GRADUATION |
OH & S Co-op Student
The student is responsible for providing administrative, operational, research and project support to the Occupational Health Nurse and Manager of Human Resources.
Key Responsibilities:
Assist in researching, developing, and implementing occupational health & safety policies, programs and/or training
Review current OH & S policies and make revisions as recommended the Ontario Safety Association for Community & Healthcare (OSACH)
Assist in analyzing employee incidents, incident investigation and follow-up as necessary, identifying trends in employee incidents by reviewing types & locations of incidents occurring, analyzing the risk and make recommendations to eliminate hazards
Attend monthly Joint Occupational Health & Safety Committee (JOHSC) meetings and assist the committee in conducting research and making recommendations
Preparing statistical reports, maintain & inspect First Aid kits, maintain hospital-wide occupational health & safety related manuals, and complete WSIB forms / letters / requests within legislated timelines
Update / maintain information on the Parklane system including entering of incidents, new employees, status changes, terminations, recall, etc.
Assist in co-ordinating and conducting occupational health & safety orientation and training sessions and mask-fit testing for Hospital employees
Vector-Borne Disease Team - Co-op Student
Reporting to a Team Leader, you will:
Undertake larval and adult mosquito surveillance
Identify and map mosquito breeding sites using global positioning system units
Investigate complaints about potential mosquito breeding sites
Conduct active tick surveillance
Respond to telephone inquiries pertaining to Vector-Borne Disease issues and distribute within the community public health education materials related to vector-borne diseases
Student Public Health Inspector
The student will work with the Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) to provide environmental health programs according to Ministry of Health Ontario Public Health Standards and the associated Protocols and Guidelines. This will include enforcement of the Health Protection and Promotion Act, its Regulations, and any other pertinent legislation.
Responsibilities:
Provide assistance to staff PHIs as they deliver environmental health programs including: routine inspections, investigation of complaints and health hazards, educational offerings, investigation of potential disease outbreaks
Assist with the management of the beach monitoring program which requires: weekly inspection of area beaches, collection of beach water samples for bacteriological analysis, interpretation of the sample results, initiation of any follow-up action, maintenance of all records and data
Assist with the vector-borne surveillance program which requires: weekly setting and collecting of mosquito traps, interpretation of the sample results
Collection of specified food samples for bacteriological and chemical analysis. This will include interpretation of the results, initiation of corrective and/or follow-up action, follow-up sampling
After the successful completion of first year of the Science program, students with a minimum grade point average (GPA) OF 2.50 and no failed courses are welcome to apply for the Co-op option. Subject to competition students may be required to have a GPA above 2.50 to be selected.
How to Apply for Co-op
In the fall term of 2nd year (3rd semester) students will be advised via e-mail of Co-op Information Sessions where they can meet Co-op staff, current students, and the Co-op Faculty Advisor to learn more about the program and application procedures.
The application period for Co-op is now closed.
For more information on application & admission procedures contact the Co-op Faculty Advisor.
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If you have questions about academic matters such as: co-op admission requirements, requests for alternate work and academic term sequences, when to apply to get into co-op, grades for co-op work terms, work term reports etc. please contact the Faculty Advisor. |
For questions about the job application process, co-op fees, potential employers, typical co-op employment rates etc. contact the Co-op Co-ordinator. |
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Brian Clarence
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Stefan Kerry
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