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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.

News

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.

Next Webinar on AI and Occupational Disease planned for October 21st
We hope you will join us for Minerva Canada’s next webinar focused on AI and Occupational Disease. The webinar will focus on the challenges associated with the reporting and training of occupational disease and will showcase how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to address these challenges. Our speakers include Krista Thompson from the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers and Lisa Hallsworth, a Minerva Canada Board member and CEO of SDS RiskAssist. See here for more details and to register for this free webinar.

May 2025 webinar on AI very well received by huge audience
Over 250 individuals registered for Minerva’s May 27th webinar focused on Aligning AI Innovation with Ethical and Moral Perspectives. Guest speakers included Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan from the University of Calgary and Tamara Vatcher , CEO of Training Works. A recording of this webinar can be found here.

Launch of Minerva Canada’s 2026 Rising Star Award and Case Study Competition
Plans are underway to launch in early October details about submissions for our 2026 Rising Star Awards and 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 these competitions. Details will be posted shortly on this website.

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

September, 2025 : Finalists identified for 2025 Minerva Rising Star Award.
October 9, 2025 : Rising Star award ceremonies.
October, 2025 : 2025-26 Rising Star Award launched.
October, 2025 : 2025-26 Case Study Competition Launched.


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