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Minor in Agricultural Safety and Health

The minor in agricultural safety and health is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the occupational safety and health issues associated with production agriculture. The program familiarizes students with the primary injury and illness control methodologies of behavioral persuasion and motivation, engineering design, and regulation or enforcement and their related strengths and weaknesses of effecting injury and occupational illness rates among agricultural populations. Additionally, students will develop an understanding of how to develop a safety risk management plan for a farm or other agricultural related business.

Required Courses for Agricultural Safety and Health Minor
Courses Hours
TSM 421
TSM 422
TSM 425
3
3
3
A minimum of 3 credit hours is required from the following courses:
TSM 293 1-4
TSM 295 or ABE 396 1-4
TSM 496 1-4
A minimum of 6 credit hours selected from:
CHLH 101, 244, 274, 304, 469, 474, 540 3
EOHS 400, 421 3
FSHN 480 3
HDFS 105 3
HRE 415, 585 4
KIN 262 3
PSYC 100, 103, 358, 456 3-4

A minimum of 18 hours and a 2.5 GPA is required for enrollment in this minor.

Courses in the minor cannot be completed Credit/No-Credit.

Agricultural Safety and Health Minor Advising information available from:
Dr. Robert Aherin
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
336 AESB
raherin@illinois.edu
333-9417