What is Minerva Canada Safety Management Education Inc.?

A non-profit volunteer-run organization, Minerva Canada, aims to be a global leader in health and safety management education by influencing the curriculum of post-secondary institutions to ensure that future business leaders create healthier and safer workplaces.
The only organization of its kind, it:

advocates for increased inclusion of health and safety concepts in business and engineering curricula
educates the educators by providing business and engineering professors and instructors in universities and colleges with practical, curriculum-ready tools and initiatives
forges partnerships with governments, associations and accreditation boards
connects educators with Canada’s business enterprises to learn what industry seeks from new graduates entering the workforce and how health and safety management concepts are being applied in the workplace.

Several of Minerva’s resources and activities are provided free of charge to educators, financially supported by our roster of blue-chip corporate, organizational and government sponsors.

Latest News

Minerva Launches its four new online management Health and Safety certificate courses
Focus of these new Minerva courses will benefit managers, supervisors and/or safety professionals, advisors as well as academia in post secondary schools. There are basic and advanced courses for managers. supervisors as well as for safety practitioners and academia. A listing of modules in each of the four courses can be seen here.
Any of these courses can be accessed on the Bluedrop Skills Pass platform – see here.

Launch of 2025-26 Case Study Competition
Minerva Canada has launched its 2025-26 Case Study competition. All post-secondary students in Canada as well as students who have graduated in the last two years from a post-secondary student and now in the workplace are eligible to participate in this competition. See herefor the Case Study, Rules/Regulations and the Online registration, Submission form. Submissions are due no later than January 12, 2026.

October 21st Webinar well attended and received
Minerva’s October 21st on AI and Occupational Disease Prevention was very well received with over 140 in attendance. Our speakers included Krista Thompson from the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers and Lisa Hallsworth, a Minerva Canada Board member and CEO of SDS RiskAssist. Wendy Tobin, another Minerva Board member, moderated the discussions. See here for a recording of the webinar.

Announcement of the 2025 Minerva Canadas Rising Star winner, Launch of 2026 Rising Star Awards
We congratulate Adam Calderhead, a safety coordinator with Vets Sheet Metal Ltd., for receiving the Minerva Canada Rising Star Award at the Canada Safest Employers Awards dinner on October 9th in Toronto. We also congratulate the other eight Excellence Awardees who competed as finalists for our Award. More information about the 2025 awards can be found here.
Details for participating in the 2026 Minerva Canada Rising Star Award will be provided shortly here.

Sign In on the Minerva storefront to access Minerva’s online Health and Safety courses
Interested students, professional association members, and employees whose school or organization does not have a Minerva licensing agreement can now access any of Minerva’s 9 online courses - the four Minerva courses 100-400, the introductory course and the four new management certificate courses can be accessed onlineon the Minerva Storefront located on the Bluedrop platform.
A listing of all courses and modules can be seen here.
The process is simple to register for the training – select the course, create an account and pay online, and then start training at your own time and convenience. A certificate is issued upon completion of the training. More details on course fees, discounts, and registration can be found here.
Minerva’s financial sponsors are provided with free access to the courses for a certain number of their employees.
Please contact Minerva Canada at minerva@safetymanagementeducation.com to discuss licensing arrangements and course fees.

Health and Safety Professionals Canada partners with Minerva Canada
Minerva Canada is pleased to partner with the Health and Safety Professionals Canada (HSPC) in delivering its 9 online Health and Safety courses to its members. A listing of all courses and modules can be seen here. See here for more details and how to register. HSPC members will receive a 20% discount on all courses and receive the fourth course free if they decide to work for the H&S certificate by successfully completing all four courses. HSPC members interested in registering for a course should email helpdesk@csse.org to receive their exclusive discount code. Non-HSPC members can also register for the online courses..

Upcoming Events

November, 2025 : 2025-26 Rising Star Award launched.
January 11, 2026 : Minerva participation at Intercollegiate Business Student Competition, Queen’s University.
January 12, 2026 : Final date for Case Study Submissions.
February 2026 : Panel Discussion with Minerva Case Study Competition Finalists, Winner announcements.
April 2026 : TBD - Rising Star submission.

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