Health and Environment Dalhousie University

Overview

Dalhousie University 's Health and Environment programme offers a wide range of courses and certificates that will help develop skills in creating a safer and healthier workplace for employees.

Certificates and programmes

• Certificate in Building Positive Workplace Cultures

Learn how to actively enhance your workplace relationships and culture using the principles of Positive Psychology. Backed by the latest dynamic research, you’ll gain the skills to influence change in your organization.

• Certificate in Ergonomic Programme Management

An ergonomic programme for your workplace is a sound investment. If you're responsible for an occupational health and safety programme or an ergonomics programme, this online certificate is for you. 

• Certificate in Sustainable Energy Technologies

As the world fights the climate crisis, let’s embrace renewable energy, smart cities and the clean technologies that are shaping our future. Taking three online self-paced courses, you’ll learn how energy systems work and where they can be successfully deployed. You’ll also explore the economic implications, policy directions, and how they will integrate with the Internet of Things (IoT).  

Standalone courses

While all our courses can be taken individually or as part of a certificate, we also offer standalone courses.

• Assessing Organizational ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Metrics

This course is designed to introduce learners to the new discipline and framework that approaches investment more sustainably by including the review of Environmental, Social and Governance indicators into risk and profitability assessments. 

• Corporate Social Responsibility

This online, self-paced course will teach you what Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is and the growing importance and expectations of corporate citizenship. You’ll learn about responsible investing, sustainability reporting, benchmarking performance and factors to consider when creating a CSR that will work for your organization.  

• Green Project Coordination

This course is designed for professionals seeking to adjust their attitude towards the innovations and responsibilities in the environmental dimension. Learners can expect to identify comprehensive green projects, accurate indicators, methods, and objectives, to allocate resources efficiently towards green initiatives.

• Foundations in Sustainability

The overall goal of the course is to produce educated, engaged, and agentic global citizens. Learners will leave with an in-depth, comprehensive, thorough understanding of sustainability.

• Mitigating Environmental Footprints and Climate Change

This course is designed to empower learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify, address, and mitigate the multiple effects of climate change within organizations. 

Environmental health and safety courses

• Chemical Spill Response

This course will cover responsibilities, prevention, spill kit contents, spill assessment, and spill response.

• Biosafety Principles and Practices

This course provides a foundation to understand the risks related to working with biohazardous materials, as well as an overview of the practices and procedures to work safely.

• Ergonomics

This interactive course presents and applies ergonomic fundamentals to empower learners to mitigate their exposure to ergonomic risk factors during participation in daily living activities, whether at work or away from work.

• Fire Safety

This course will provide the learner with an introduction to fire safety.

• Incident Investigation

This course covers essential techniques and methodologies for securing accident scenes, gathering crucial evidence, and identifying human errors. 

• Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee Training

This course will give participants the knowledge needed to successfully initiate the formation of a Joint Occupational Health and Safety Committee.

• Laboratory Safety

This course is designed for all individuals working in laboratories and will cover the major elements of laboratory safety, giving the participant a strong general foundation to understand the risks associated with working in a laboratory.

• Occupational Health and Safety

This course offers learners an overview of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act of Nova Scotia. 

• Respiratory Protection

This course will introduce the learner to respiratory protection. 

• Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) 2015

This course will cover all the major elements of the WHMIS 2015 requirements giving the participant a strong general foundation to understand the risks associated with working with or around chemicals. 

Courses for health providers

• Emergency Medical Services System Design

Get ready to take the lead in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system management. In this course, you’ll explore what drives effective system design, examine key internal and external factors, and learn how to manage people and evaluate performance. You’ll also discover how to strengthen your system’s readiness for disasters and emergency response.

• Public Relations and Marketing in EMS

In today’s challenging EMS environments, you need strategies that go beyond simply reacting. This course helps you plan proactive public relations so you can turn crises into opportunities. You’ll also learn essential marketing strategies to navigate market pressures and strengthen your organization’s impact.

Free courses for caregivers and seniors

One in four Canadians serves as a caregiver for family, making family caregivers the largest care arm in Canada. These two free competency-based courses are designed for health and social care providers who want to incorporate family caregivers into their practice, community, and network.

Free courses for caregivers:

• Caregiver-Centered Care Level 1

• Caregiver-Centered Care Level 2

Programmes and courses for seniors:

• Healthy Aging course: Designed for older Canadians and caregivers, our Healthy Aging course is free, online, and easy to navigate. This course offers trustworthy advice and best practices for healthy aging.   

• Seniors’ College Association of Nova Scotia: SCANS provides affordable learning opportunities for older adults who are 50+. Members can choose to attend an unlimited number of courses throughout the year on topics ranging from the Ukraine-Russia conflict to Scottish Gaelic for beginners. SCANS offers flexible hybrid courses, as well as in-person courses across Nova Scotia that promise an engaging learning environment for older adults.