Project Management for the Health & Safety Professional

This two-day, hands-on course is designed to provide health and safety practitioners with the tools and techniques to plan, manage, close and evaluate a project related to the health and safety environment. Based on best-practices in project management today, participants will also examine the leadership skills required to link health and safety project management to the operational areas of his or her entire organization.

Participants will work on a "live" project from the health and safety environment and apply PM tools and processes to simulate a complete project life cycle: from initiation to closure.  Comparisons will be drawn between participants' current projects and past case studies.

Teams will be structured so that each team has participants from various work environments. The course is hands-on, with practice simulations, using forms and templates commonly used in the project management field.

The course will be based on the 4th edition of PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and Canadian best practices in the safety profession.

Expected to be a CHSC course beginning in 2011, this course will require the successful completion of an exam for credit and may retroactively be applied to the Designation. Current CHSCs may apply the course to their personal CHSC Maintenance Program.

Who Should Attend

• All those with ultimate responsibility for or expected to command H&S projects within their organization
• Consultants and other Health & Safety Professionals expected to provide leadership in H&S to business, industry, and government at all levels
• Those responsible for operations & support (e.g. HR) management with a key role in H&S

Course Content:

During this course, health and safety practitioners will learn to:

• Use the terminology and processes of modern project management;
• Define the business case for a health and safety project;
• Prepare a complete and accurate project plan for a health and safety project;
• Facilitate team discussion to learn from the experience of others;
• Use project management forms and templates for a health and safety project;
• Discuss project life cycles and the importance of milestones for project control;
• Build a project schedule with major milestones;
• Identify the interaction of a health and safety project with the day-to-day operations of an organization;
• Build a communications plan for the health and safety project to ensure its long-term success;
• Value the importance of post-project reviews and evaluating project success; and
• Value the benefits of a consistent project management methodology.

The course exam is provided to participants by email within one week of course completion. Participants have 4 weeks from the release date to complete the exam.

Course Instructors

• Tammy Green

CSSE has awarded this course 16 CHSC Maintenance Points.

You can register for this course online. Please visit our Course Registration Page.