Specialization in Occupational Health and Safety Management

What is Specialization in Occupational health and safety management?
The changes and policies generated by the International Labor Organization and the World Health Organization as well as the current legislation not only suggest the need, but also the duty to develop occupational health and safety management systems in companies focused on health promotion and prevention of work-related diseases and accidents with a management approach to facilitate the planning management organization and control of actions carried out and their impact in the business context.
The Specialization in Occupational Health and Safety Management given by The Fundación Universitaria María Cano seeks to train leading specialist in technical and management process in the Occupational Health and Safety Management System favoring the quality of life of the working populationand, therefore, the productivity of organizations, by improving the levels of competitiveness of the regions, the country, and the world.
SNIES: 111117
Title: Specialist in Occupational Health and Safety Management
Qualified record: Resolución No. 007564 del 3 de mayo de 2022
Methodology: Online
Validity: 7 years
Duration: 2 Semesters
Value 2025: $8.235.957 per semester
Number of credits: 28 credits
Professional profile:
The Specialist in Occupational Safety and Health Management graduated from the Fundación Universitaria María Cano is recognized for having management and leadership skills for the design, implementation, adaptation and evaluation of Occupational Safety and Health Systems in organizations, as well as making decisions and actions of anticipation and prevention and intervention of multifactorial problems, creating solutions, projects and innovative tools that allow the assurance of productivity, sustainability and business and social development of the country.
Addressed to
The applicant to the Specialization in Occupational Health and Safety Management of The Fundación Universitaria María Cano must be a professional in the areas of Health Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Management Sciences and Engineering who has responsibility, commitment, ethics, excellent communication skills and appropriate interpersonal relationships, which allow him/her to interact with warmth and kindness with individuals and groups, as well as teamwork, sensitivity to the uniqueness of human beings as social, spiritual and political beings, training in values that allows him/her to act with ethics and civic responsibility in society.
Occupational profile
The Specialist in Occupational Safety and Health Management of the Fundación Universitaria María Cano will be able to work as:
- Manager, Director and/or coordinator or responsible for occupational safety and health systems in public, private and mixed organizations of all economic sectors.
- Manager, Director and/or Area Coordinator of Labor Risk Administrators.
- Members of National and Regional Boards of Disability and Occupational Medical Qualification of EPS, IPS, AFP, ARL, and exceptional regimes.
- Specialized professional in the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the Ministry of Labor.
- Advisor or consultant in Occupational Health and Safety issues and in the design, implementation and control of the Occupational Health and Safety Management System.
- Auditor of occupational health and safety systems.
Admission Requirements Undergraduate Programs
Admission requirements New In-person and Virtual Undergraduate Applicant
To enter any of the undergraduate programs offered by María Cano, the new applicant must complete the following procedure:
- Fill out the online registration form
- Make the payment of undergraduate registration fees $213.022
- At the end of the registration form, upload to the platform the following documents one by one (in PDF format) as indicated at the end:
- Photocopy of the high school degree certificate or diploma, if you have not yet completed grade 11, original study certificate, issued by the school valid for no more than one month.
- Results of the ICFES tests (Saber 11), if you do not have the results you can attach the citation to the test.
- A legible photocopy of the identity document (enlarged).
- A 3×4 size photo, light blue background.
- Documents are not received physically unless required during the admission process.
- Print the registration payment form at the end of online registration or make payment through PSE.
*The Foundation reserves the right to admit and assign study schedules to students.
Curriculum
Study Plan
Content
Financial Management | 2 |
Project Management | 2 |
Strategic Management | 2 |
Management Skills | 2 |
Epidemiology in Safety and Health at Work | 2 |
Theoretical and legal foundation of Occupational Health and Safety at Work | 2 |
Research Seminar I | 1 |
Credits: 13
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management | 2 |
Working Conditions | 2 |
Occupational Health and Safety Management System | 2 |
Occupational Medicine | 2 |
Integral Risk Management | 2 |
Ergonomic and Psychosocial Conditions | 1 |
Elective | 2 |
Research Seminar II | 2 |
Credits: 15