Engineering curriculum safety education

When asked if they have taken any constmction health and safety courses or have received constmction safety education as part of their courses during their imdergraduate education, 69% of the respondents answered No, 30% answered Yes, and 1 % did not answer this question. This reflects a deficiency of constmction health and safety education in the current engineering curriculum in the surveyed MENA coimtries. 

When inquired about the need for more construction health and safety education at the university level, 85% of the surveyed practitioners reported Yes, 6% indicated No, 8 % answered Don t know, and 1 % did not answer the question. The large proportion of respondents that agreed that there is a need for more safety education emphasized the importance of incorporating construction safety in the engineering curriculum. 

Note the term a common body of knowledge. In the process of researching and writing Chapter 5, Academic and skill Requirements for the Practice of Safety, I concluded that the Curriculum Standards for Baccalaureate Degrees in Safety, jointly pubMshed by the Academic Accreditation Council of the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, estabhsh a rigor of education that adequately prepares one to enter the safety profession. 

Activity of the Board of Certified Safety Professionals and the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) over many years resulted in the arrangements made with ABET to accredit safety science degree programs that met ABET requirements. It is a mark of status and recognition for a university to meet those requirements and obtain accreditation. An audit team visits the school for the initial accreditation and on a 5-year schedule thereafter if continued certification is sought. Recommendations are made by the audit team, if necessary, for continuous improvement in the curriculum and the educational objectives for the program. 

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