Institute of Social Sciences

Department of Interdisciplinary Occupational Health and Safety

General Description

Foundation

The Department began to offer postgraduate education in 2017 affiliated with the Institute of Sciences.

Degrees Offered

Master’s Degree in Design and Construction Management (Non-Thesis)

Cycle

Second Cycle / EQF 7 (Master’s Degree)

Admission and Registration Requirements

To apply for the programme, candidates must hold a bachelor’s diploma. The ALES is not required for non-thesis master’s degree programmes. Graduates of the Faculty of Engineering, Medicine, and the Department of Biology, Physics, and Chemistry of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Department of Architecture, those who graduated as teachers from the Faculty of Technical Education, graduates of the Faculty of Technology; those who hold a bachelor’s degree and have at least 5-year experience in the Department of Occupational Health and Safety at institutions which apply the Occupational Health and Safety systems; those who hold the associate degree in the Occupational Health and Safety Programme and then obtained the bachelor’s degree in a department other than those mentioned above can apply for the Interdisciplinary Occupational Health and Safety. Graduates of the Faculty of Open Education, and the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences may also apply for this non-thesis interdisciplinary Programme; however, to apply for the Class B Specialty Exam, the candidates who graduated from these faculties must hold an associate degree in Occupational Health and Safety in accordance with the Regulation on Terms of Reference and Education of Occupational Safety Specialists, unless they are graduated from the Department of Engineering or Architecture, or their job titles are technical education teachers, physicists, chemists, or biologists.

Recognition of Prior Learning

In accordance with Article 10 of the Regulation on Beykent University’s Postgraduate Education and Training, students are admitted to the programmes at Institutes through horizontal transfer provided that they meet the requirements for horizontal transfer, which are determined by the Academic Board upon the Institute Administrative Board’s decision, and the Head of the Department’s opinion. Students submit a letter of application by means of which they request to be exempt from certain courses within the same postgraduate programme of Beykent University as the courses of the postgraduate programme of another university they had enrolled in before. Their application including the course contents and transcripts will be evaluated upon the Institute Administrative Board’s decision, considering the opinion of the Head of the Department, and the Board will decide which courses the students took will be awarded credits for the courses they must take within the Programme they have recently enrolled. The courses students took at the university they attended may be recognised as the elective or compulsory courses with the Institute Administrative Board’s approval.

If the prior learning is recognised, credits and letter grades of the courses the students passed successfully at their prior higher education institution are transferred in accordance with Article 19 of the Regulation on Beykent University’s Postgraduate Education and Training. Courses are transferred to the students’ transcripts, which state the equivalents in the course plan of the Programme they are enrolled, and include the original name, code, credit of the courses, as well as the grades received from the courses. Thus, the students will be exempt from the courses on condition that the total credits of the courses taken transferred cannot constitute 70% of the total courses required in the programme.

Competence Requirements and Rules

1 and a half years, 2 terms in each year, 15 weeks in each term, 90 ECTS in total.

Programme Description

The Programme aims to cultivate individuals into future Occupational Safety Specialists who use the limited sources such as human, capital, machine, and energy in a most efficient way to help the organisations achieve their objectives, as well as aiming to cultivate student into graduates who are equipped with the knowledge of the basic concepts of Occupational Health and Safety and the skills in practising those concepts, and who will participate in activities helping them increase the employees’ levels of health and capacities.

Our main principle is to cultivate our students into professionals who have the efficient learning skills, are equipped with the ability to think critically, and have the thirst for lifelong learning and acquiring skills, as well as being beneficial to the humanity and society, and responsible, and able to practise the modern business methods. The Programme is not only restricted to the Occupational Health, but also focuses on the working environment, risk assessment and management, construction site safety, fire safety transportation safety, workplace hygiene, assessment of noise, vibration, indoors, and air pollution, precautions against chemical and biological hazards, protection of employees’ health, etc.

The Programme collaborates with the Department of Medicine, Biology, Educational Sciences, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Physics, Civil Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Management Engineering, and the Faculty of Law.

Learning Outcomes

Within the scope of the Programme, students are cultivated into scientists equipped with the expert knowledge of protecting and improving employees’ health, reducing the risks of occupational diseases and workplace accidents. The graduates will have acquired the knowledge and the skills of:

  • Performing risk assessments regarding health and safety at work specific to the profession.
  • Defining the basic steps.
  • Conducting a walk-through survey.
  • Defining the factors harmful to the health, and hazards.
  • Make evaluations regarding the environment.
  • Assessing the employees’ state of health.
  • Developing protection strategies at the workplace.
  • Evaluating current occupational health and safety systems.
  • Being able to make disaster and emergency plans.

Career Opportunities

To apply for the Class B Specialty Exam and obtain their certificates, our graduates must hold an associate degree or a bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety, unless they are graduated from the Department of Engineering or Architecture, or their job titles are technical education teachers, physicists, chemists, or biologists. They can work as Occupational Safety Specialists at workplaces which are in a hazardous or less hazardous sector.