Opportunities and challenges to integrating occupational safety, health, and well-being education into the United States undergraduate curricula.
Background: To meet the demands and future of work in their field, Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) leaders in the United States call for curricula expansion; however, a complementary approach is to broaden the disciplines receiving OSH training. Objective: Provide examples and a discussion of h...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 82; no. 4; pp. 1213 - 1224 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec2025
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