Diploma in Applied Science (Environmental Services and Management)

Municipal Solid Waste Handling

This module provides participants with an overview of the operations of handling, collection, storage, and recycling of municipal solid waste. It covers the skills and knowledge needed to oversee the operations from the planning of the collection route to logistics and manpower deployment.

Municipal Solid Waste Treatment and Disposal

This module introduces participants to the fundamental principles underlying different types of treatment and disposal techniques for municipal solid waste. It covers key issues in the operation and maintenance of treatment facilities, and the benefits of value products from the treatment.

Recycling and Resource Recovery

This module provides an overview of the different recycling and resource recovery methods used in solid waste management. It covers concepts such as circular economy, material and energy flow management and analysis, and waste-to-energy.

Urban Ecology and Biodiversity

This module is an interdisciplinary field of study that helps participants recognise the natural processes that take place on Earth and the environmental challenges faced by humanity. It covers fundamentals such as soil, water cycle, ecosystems, and biodiversity.

Environmental Operations Project / On-Job-Training

In this module, participants will embark on a project on waste management or cleaning services. Participants will have the opportunity to work with companies or on in-house projects to examine and improve existing processes or practices in the environmental services sector.

Health and Hygiene

In this module, participants will learn about the principles and practices of hygiene with a focus on hygiene promotion. Participants will understand how hygiene education and promotion can be executed in order to help people change their behaviour to use better hygiene practices and prevent health risks.

Sanitation Standards and Practices

In this module, participants will learn about the principles, practices, and standards of sanitation in relation to the protection of public health. It covers the understanding of the science underlying the various cleaning techniques and their application on different surfaces and materials.

Sustainability Project / On-Job-Training

In this module, participants will be involved in a project on sustainability management, on how organisations manage financial, social, and environmental risks, ensuring that their business can continue to operate, regardless of obstacles such as resource shortages, environmental disasters, and social and political events.

Integrated Pest Management

In this module, students will learn about the morphology and biology of five main pests and vectors found in Singapore, namely mosquitoes, flies, rodents, cockroaches, and rat fleas. They will then examine existing regulations and approaches to controlling and managing these pests and vectors.

Environmental Communication and Outreach

This module helps participants understand and apply the theories and principles of communication as well as cultural considerations to ensure that the messages are effectively conveyed. Participants will learn to develop outreach plans and strategies and effectively communicate their ideas to raise public awareness in environmental conservation.

Environmental Statistical Methods

The module introduces participants to basic statistical analysis based on fundamental statistics concepts to describe characteristics of large datasets as well as graphical trends, regressions, and correlations between data variables.

Climate Change and the Environment

This module examines the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on the natural environment and considers how society and existing technologies might be employed to control the sources and responses to deal with the impacts.

Environmental Law and Policy

This module provides participants with knowledge and understanding of the main principles of environmental law and policies, as well as the values which underpin them. It covers environmental management system, auditing, risk assessment, and environmental policy and law, such as the Environment Protection and Management Act, and Energy Conservation Act, as well as their subsidiary legislations.

Essentials of Human Resource Management

This module introduces participants to the relationship between human resource management and the organisation’s business strategy. Participants will gain an appreciation of how the various HR functions are interlinked for the smooth operation of the business.

Conversion Technologies

In this module, participants will learn about the main conversion technologies, such as thermal, thermochemical, biochemical, and chemical conversion. Each conversion technique can be applied to specific biomass waste streams and result in specific energy products.

Hazardous Waste Management

This module provides participants with the knowledge of hazardous waste treatment and disposal. It covers hazardous waste identification, basic properties of hazardous waste, classification of hazardous waste, hazardous waste generation and characteristics, hazardous waste storage and transport, hazardous waste treatment, and disposal methods.

Environmental Assessment and Management System

This module provides an overview of managing and accessing the environment through the introduction of assessment tools and systems. It examines various assessments required to quantify environmental standards, such as life cycle assessment, environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, ecological valuation, and risk assessment.

Environmental Analytics

This module teaches participants about the importance of good data quality in data mining and apply appropriate data cleansing and transformation techniques to organise and prepare data for analysis. Participants will learn to process the data using the business intelligence software, Tableau, and effectively use it to generate results on interactive graphics.

Project Management

This module equips participants with a clear understanding of the role played by a project manager and introduces the various components of managing a project. It covers Human Resource Management, Quality Management, Communication Management, and Change Management.

Project Scheduling

In this module, participants will learn the different approaches to successfully map out and execute the essential components of a project management plan. It covers several areas of specialisations such as Work Breakdown Structure, project management software applications such as Microsoft Excel, Time & Resource Management, Progress Management, Project Evaluation, and Project Closure.

Business Continuity Management

This module equips participants with an overview of the requirements of ISO 22301:2012 BCM. Incidents can disrupt an organisation at any time, and by applying ISO 22301, it will ensure that organisations can respond and continue their operations.

Environment, Health and Safety Audit and Applications

This module equips participants with the knowledge and skills to lead an organisation in developing a Workplace Safety and Health Management. It entails reviewing the organisation’s current Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) policy, risk management plan, objectives and programmes.

Capstone Environmental Services Project

In this module, participants will gain knowledge and skills through facilitated case studies and a capstone project, which helps to enhance occupational and personal competencies in the workplace.

Environment, Health and Safety Management

This module covers the examination of environmental, health, and safety challenges in the workplace. It introduces different hazards, as well as their classifications, communications, and the standards set by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).