Educate Employers on Healthier, Safer Work Practices
Join a dynamic field that makes the workplace a safer place when you become an occupational safety and health specialist. With your Occupational Safety and Health Bachelor of Science from University of Houston-Clear Lake, you'll develop skills to anticipate, recognize and evaluate potential hazards. Through hands-on assignments and real-world experiences, you'll be equipped with the knowledge needed to make the workplace safer for employees as well as the community and environment. Choose between our industrial hygiene and safety specializations to align with your desired career path.
Safety Specialization
Focuses on anticipation, identification and evaluation of hazardous conditions and practices. Geared more towards engineering and physics aspect of safety, ergonomics and management of occupational safety and health programs and regulations.
Industrial Hygiene Specialization
Involves anticipation, recognition, evaluation, prevention and control of workplace environmental factors or stresses that may impair health or cause significant discomfort for individuals. Geared more towards assessing workplace stressors.
All UHCL undergraduate degree plans in industrial hygiene and safety are endorsed by ABET, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. They're also approved by the Institute for Safety and Health Management, and taught by skilled faculty who are fully certified in the field of industrial hygiene and safety.
Land a Rewarding Career While Fulfilling a Regional Need
With successful completion of your degree, you'll be qualified for a variety of lucrative jobs in the occupational health and safety fields. Most graduates of programs with the industrial hygiene or safety specializations find immediate post-graduate employment with oil and gas companies, OSHA, manufacturers, construction companies or chemical plants. Nationally, the Gulf Coast is a leading employer of health and safety professionals. Equipped with the knowledge and practice you will receive with the Occupational Safety and Health B.S. from UHCL, your professional options include occupational health and industrial specialist, hygienist or researcher.
September 2025
University of Houston - Clear Lake
2700 Bay Area Boulevar,
HOUSTON,
Texas,
77058, United States
Applicants who have attended an institution located outside the United States must: Possess the equivalent of a U.S. high school/secondary diploma.
Proof of English Language Proficiency
Your minimum scores must be: 550 on the paper-based TOEFL exam; 79 on the TOEFL (iBT) exam; 6.0 on the IELTS exam, 53 on the PTE exam; or, You can successfully complete level 112 in the ELS Intensive English Language program; Duolingo Test Score of 105 or higher which is dependent on requirements of individual programs.
Mungkin ada beberapa persyaratan IELTS yang berbeda, tergantung jurusan yang kamu ambil
