Introduction to this program

The establishment of this Bachelor program is based on the cooperation of the following units under the School of Health Science: Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Occupational Safety, Health, and Medicine Research Center, and Occupational, Environmental, and Food Safety Research Center. The cooperation includes teaching, research staff, and equipment. The research topics are developed with fire-fighting organizations, domestic and international research institutes, and enterprises. The participation, as mentioned above, provides students a multi-disciplinary study environment and a variety of opportunities for practice. Those efforts will create excellent human resources and services required by society.

This program aims to foster the professionals for fire-fighting. These professionals know fire-fighting, hazard prevention, management practices, or investigation of fire-scene. For the students who are interested in the industrial application, this program also provides an academic module for industrial safety management.

The curriculum of this program will help students own the certificates of fire-fighting equipment administrator, occupational safety and health administrator, and industrial safety technician. This program also actively guides the students to take the national official examinations and to become an official in fire-fighting or industrial units. The graduate students can also participate in the planning, design, construction, supervision, and research in a fire-fighting or industrial safety enterprise. They may as well become a professional of occupational fire-fighting or safety management in other enterprises.

This program also takes great effort to enhance the foreign language and information ability of its students, encourage the students to take part in the industrial-academic cooperation program, and improve the connection between theory and practice.