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.

Congratulation to winners of the Minerva 2025 Case Study Competition
Students from Lambton College, Seneca College and Western University were winners of the 2024-25 Minerva Canada case study competition and announced during a panel discussion with them at the recent Conference Board of Canada conference. A recording of the panel discussions is here.

Minerva Launches its 2025 Webinar Series on April 2, 2025
Minerva’s well attended webinar program in partnership with the Conference Board of Canada continues again in 2025 with the theme of Building a Safer Future – Empowering Health and Safety with AI in the Workplace.
Join us on April 2nd from 1:00-2:00 PM ET for our first webinar this year to hear more from our 2 speakers – Michael Carter from St. Lawrence College and Justin Bastedo from Sadie. More details on it along with a registration link to this free webinar can be found here.

Minerva 2025 Rising Star award submissions
Minerva Canada will continue this year with its very successful Rising Star Awards. The nomination and submission process for Minerva Canada’s 2025 Rising Star award is currently underway. You’ll find details including the online registration, nomination, submission form by clicking Nominate for the Minerva Rising Star award here. Nominations close on May 2nd. Winner will be announced during the Canada’s Safest Employers awards dinner in Toronto on October 9th.

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

February 24, 2025 : Launch date of Minerva Rising Star award competition.
February 28, 2025 : Launch of Minerva’s new online courses on Minerva, HSPS Storefronts.
March 19, 2025 : Minerva Panel Discussion with Case Study Competition finalists.
April 2, 2025 : Minerva webinar : Empowering Health and Safety with AI.
May 2, 2025 : Final date for Rising Star submissions.
May 2025 (TBA) : Learning Forum at the University of Windsor Faculty of Engineering.

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