Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Compliance

Organisation over 20 weeks

Four 5-week blocks (4 weeks of classes, 1 week of assessment). The two course units are taken unchanged from the original degree: same content, same assessments.

• Blocks 1 and 2 (weeks 1 to 10): SST 412 — Occupational Health and Safety: Legal Framework and Risk Assessment
• Blocks 3 and 4 (weeks 11 to 20): ENV 413 — Environment: Law, Classified Installations and Environmental Management

SST 412 - Occupational Health and Safety: Legal Framework and Risk Assessment

To give the future QHSE manager a command of the Senegalese occupational health and safety framework and of the risk assessment approach on which any prevention policy is based.

Learning outcomes

• Identify the employer's occupational health and safety obligations in the applicable texts and organise regulatory monitoring of them.
• Identify hazards and assess the occupational risks of a real work situation.
• Prioritise prevention measures and formalise them in a monitored action programme.
• Situate the role of internal and external prevention actors.

Content

• Loi n°97-17 du 1er décembre 1997 portant Code du travail (Labour Code): provisions on hygiene and safety, to be studied on the text itself. Monitoring: new Code du travail (projet de loi n°15/2026), adopted by the Assemblée nationale (National Assembly) on 18 August 2026, promulgation not verified.
• Decrees of 15 November 2006 on occupational health and safety: n°2006-1251 (work equipment), n°2006-1252 (physical ambient factors), n°2006-1253 (occupational medical inspection), n°2006-1255 (resources for intervention by the Inspection du travail [Labour Inspectorate]), n°2006-1256 (employers' obligations regarding workplace safety), n°2006-1258 (occupational health services) and n°2006-1261 (general hygiene and safety measures in establishments of all kinds); whether they remain in force after the promulgation of the new Code du travail is to be checked.
• Actors: employer, management, workers and their representatives, occupational health services, Inspection du travail, CSS (prevention of and compensation for occupational accidents and diseases); provisions of the applicable collective agreement, including the CCNI (national inter-professional collective agreement) of 30 December 2019, to be looked up in the text.
• Risk assessment approach: work situations, hazards, exposure, rating, hierarchy of prevention measures (elimination of the hazard, substitution, collective protection, organisational measures and training, personal protection as a last resort), action programme and follow-up.
• Priority risks to be examined in the target sectors: thermal and noise environments, manual handling, falls from height, machinery, chemicals, dust, psychosocial risks.
• Employment of disabled workers and adaptation of their workstations (provisions to be looked up in the text of loi d'orientation sociale n°2010-15 du 6 juillet 2010 [Social Orientation Act]).
• Small units and the informal sector: simplified and graduated assessment approaches.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (40%): annotated register of the obligations applicable to a given activity. Field project (60%): risk assessment of a work situation and prioritised prevention programme.

ENV 413 - Environment: Law, Classified Installations and Environmental Management

To train learners in the environmental compliance of a site and in designing an environmental management system, based on the Senegalese Code de l'environnement (Environmental Code) and the ISO 14001:2026 standard.

Learning outcomes

• Identify an activity's environmental obligations under loi n°2023-15 portant Code de l'environnement and its implementing texts.
• Determine whether an installation falls under the classified installations regime and draw the consequences for the operator.
• Conduct the environmental analysis of a site: aspects, impacts, significance.
• Apply the requirements of the ISO 14001:2026 standard to an organisation and assess its compliance.

Content

• Loi n°2023-15 du 2 août 2023 portant Code de l'environnement: general structure of the text; décret n°2025-227 du 31 janvier 2025 implementing certain of its provisions, to be read in the official text.
• Classified installations regime (art. 44 and 45 of loi n°2023-15); classification list set by order (arrêté), to be consulted in the official source.
• Environmental assessment of projects and monitoring obligations: provisions to be studied in the text of loi n°2023-15 and its implementing texts.
• Environmental analysis: aspects and impacts under normal, abnormal and emergency conditions, significance criteria, life-cycle perspective.
• Requirements of the ISO 14001:2026 standard, studied on the text of the standard; compliance obligations and evaluation of compliance.
• Issues in the sub-region: waste, wastewater, emissions and dust, soils, water resources, coastal erosion, adaptation to climate change.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (40%): regulatory classification sheet for an installation. Field project (60%): environmental analysis of a site and register of compliance obligations.

Career opportunities

Occupational risk prevention coordinator, site environmental compliance officer.

At your own pace: the self-paced pathway

In a class, this certificate takes 20 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.

Admission

Bachelor's degree in science, engineering or management, or experience in a safety or environmental programme assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.

The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Quality, Health, Safety and Environment, within a period set by the certificate regulations.