SAFE 804: Legal Aspects of Safety (Rhodes)

This guide will provide information and instruction that will help you find case law on a topic in safety sciences and complete your Research Project assignment. Use the links on the left side of the page to navigate through the guide and to view the resources.

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SAFE 804 Research Project:

Research Project will be completed by each student focusing on their dissertation topic (first-time students (in their first doctoral course) will tackle a current EHS issue, again, approved by Dr. Rhodes. The legal aspects of the safety, health, and environmental cases (a minimum of four well-researched cases) will be included in their project.  In other words, the project will address actual cases that have established precedents in the selected dissertation area, as well as fundamental issues of law and ethics applied to safety-related topics.

Text from SAFE804 Syllabus Fall 2025

At the end of this session, students will be able to:

• employ web and library tools to find articles in news and trade publications that discuss court cases involving safety sciences.
• execute searches in Google Scholar and WestLaw to successfully find a court case involving safety sciences.