Graduate Certificate in Workplace Occupational Health Systems and Programmes

The Graduate Certificate in Workplace Occupational Health Systems and Programmes is offered as a part-time Graduate Certificate (GC) that comprises 12 units, which can be stacked toward the Master of Public Health.

This GC focuses on the principles behind occupational health policy constructs at the workplace and enterprise-level programmes that address workplace occupational health.

Courses

Workplace Safety and Health

Dates: 05 – 09 January 2026, Monday to Friday
Time: 8.00am – 6.00pm (SGT)
SSG Course Code: TGS-2024041981

Workplace health is vital for public well-being, especially in Singapore, where 70% of residents are working. This course provides an overview of Workplace Safety and Health (WSH), focusing on risk control and preventing work-related illnesses and accidents. Students evaluate strategies for promoting workplace safety, ensuring compliance with legislation. They develop skills to assess hazards, implement controls, and understand legal requirements, preparing for real-world WSH challenges.

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Public Health at the Workplace

Dates: 12 January – 13 April 2026, Every Monday
Time: 6.00pm – 9.00pm (SGT)
SSG Course Code:TGS-2024041982

In the last hundred years, the role of the workplace in public health has evolved to encompass the continuum of health of the individual worker and to support greater public health efforts (such as pandemic and chronic disease control). This course allows students to apply public health strategies and considerations to manage health issues and related challenges in the workplace setting. Students will learn about the issues that influence both the health of the worker and the worker’s ability to work in different settings, and the approaches to addressing these issues.

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Enterprise Occupational Health Practice 

Dates: 16 January – 17 April 2026, Every Friday
Time: 6.00pm – 9.00pm (SGT)
SSG Course Code: TGS-2024041983

Workplace health is an important part of Public Health. Workplace and Occupational health professionals often functions within the Enterprise space. Workplace (also known as Entreprise) is an essential element of the public health system. The employers, but also employees, make at work a huge number of decisions which have an influence on the quality of living and working environment. Good practice in workplace health is a process of continuous improvement of health, environment and safety and inside and outside of an enterprise. The health and safety of the working population is crucial to the health of society as a whole. Improving the health and safety of the working population contributes to improving the health of the whole community.

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Learning Objectives

  1. Apply the fundamental approaches and principles of WSH in order to conduct workplace occupational safety and health assessment.
  2. Explain the relevant legislation about WSH to interested parties and employers.
  3. Explain the importance of workplace health promotion and how it will benefit employers and employees
  4. Identify and explain how various Occupational Health & Safety Systems, the role of OH clinics and the business perspectives of workplace health are important for sustainable and working programmes to stakeholders.
  5. Apply appropriate principles and frameworks to minimise human error, investigate OHS incidents and develop a safety culture at the workplace.
  6. Evaluate the emergency medical and pandemic preparedness of a workplace; and the role of the workplace in infectious and chronic disease control.
  7. Appraise key public health systems at the workplace.
  8. Describe and apply the linkages of the determinants and the approaches to safeguard the health and fitness of the working population.

Admission Requirement

  • Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience
  • Candidates with other qualifications and experience may be considered on a case-by-case basis, subject to approval.

Application

  • Application closes on 03 November 2025
  • For course fees and application-related enquiries, please email lifelonglearning@nus.edu.sg
  • For more information on this programme, please contact us at sph_cpe@nus.edu.sg.
  • The maximum candidature period is 3 years. Interested in a graduate certificate but want to start small? Dive into a course first and accumulate units towards your certificate.

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