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Oakland University is pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. Aaron J. Bird (Posted November 2007)

Oakland University is pleased to announce that Dr. Aaron J. Bird has joined our Occupational Safety & Health program faculty.  Aaron earned his B.S. in Mathematics from Fairmont State College, his M.S. in Occupational Hygiene and Safety and his Ph.D. in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from West Virginia University. 

Prior to joining OU Dr. Bird worked at CD-adapco in Plymouth, Michigan as an Application Support Engineer supporting that company’s commercial computational fluid dynamics software users.  Prior to CD-adapco Aaron worked at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for six years as Research Industrial Hygienist and a Research Physical Scientist.

In addition to teaching in both the B.S. and M.S. safety and health degree programs at OU, Aaron will serve as faculty advisor for our American Society of Safety Engineers Student Section of the Greater Detroit Chapter.  Dr. Bird has an impressive research and publication record in peer-reviewed journals and has presented at regional and national professional conferences.  He is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, American Industrial Hygiene Society, National Safety Council, and Michigan Industrial Hygiene Society.

Oakland University IHS/OSH Majors Eligible for GSP Designation (Posted August 2007)

The Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) established the Graduate Safety Practitioner (GSP) designation and pathway to becoming a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) in early 2006.  When first implementing the GSP, the BCSP limited participation to June 2006 graduates of ABET accredited safety-related program and those graduating after that time.  Because the GSP launch went smoothly, the BCSP approved allowing certain previous graduates of ABET accredited programs to seek the GSP status with BCSP through a one-time, retroactivity period ending December 31, 2007.

This retroactive period for GSP status means that any Oakland University IHS/OSH major who graduated after October 1, 2003 is eligible for the GSP designation.  For more details and application procedure, please see the BCSP website at www.bcsp.org.

OU MSSM Degree Program (Posted May 2006)

The Oakland University Master of Science in Safety Management is the first of its kind in Michigan. Download the brochure. (PDF)

OU OSH Program Accredited (Posted October 2005)

The Oakland University Bachelor of Science degree program in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) has been accredited by the Applied Science Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc., the recognized accreditor of college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. read more