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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Environmental Health Law and Compliance

  • Unit Code

    HST2114

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Edmore MASAKA

Description

This unit introduces students to the Australian legal system at federal, state and local levels. The law enforcement role of Environmental Health Officers will be covered in detail, including serving of legal notices and prosecution.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

To be delivered either on campus or on-line through lectures and tutorials.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply environmental health legislation.
  2. Apply principles of natural justice in administrative decision making.
  3. Describe basic government functions and principles of law.
  4. Describe the history of approaches to environmental health law in an Australian context.
  5. Describe the legal, governmental and administrative frameworks within which the environmental health system operates.
  6. Recognise the limitations and constraints of the legal system as it applies to environmental health.

Unit Content

  1. Communicable disease control legislation and regulations.
  2. Environmental health laws and regulations.
  3. Food laws and regulations.
  4. Gathering and preserving evidence.
  5. Introduction to the Australian legal system and levels of government.
  6. Principles of justice and administrative decision making.
  7. Public Health law in Australia.
  8. The tools for regulation (legislation, courts and administration).

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Internal Lectures, case studies, small group activities, guest lecturers and discussions. External E-learning course work and activities are provided through MyECU and supported by a tutor.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentEssay20%
Case StudyEnvironmental health case study30%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentEssay20%
Case StudyEnvironmental health case study30%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Reynolds, C. (2011). Chapters 1-12. Public and Environmental Health Law (p. 496). The Federation Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/730047544
  • Reynolds, C. (2004). Public health law and regulation. Annandale, N.S.W.: The Federation Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/57251250?databaseList=638

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Environmental Health Law and Compliance

  • Unit Code

    HST2114

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Edmore MASAKA

Description

This unit introduces students to the Australian legal system at federal, state and local levels. The law enforcement role of Environmental Health Officers will be covered in detail, including serving of legal notices and prosecution.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

To be delivered either on campus or on-line through lectures and tutorials.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply environmental health legislation.
  2. Apply principles of natural justice in administrative decision making.
  3. Describe basic government functions and principles of law.
  4. Describe the history of approaches to environmental health law in an Australian context.
  5. Describe the legal, governmental and administrative frameworks within which the environmental health system operates.
  6. Recognise the limitations and constraints of the legal system as it applies to environmental health.

Unit Content

  1. Communicable disease control legislation and regulations.
  2. Environmental health laws and regulations.
  3. Food laws and regulations.
  4. Gathering and preserving evidence.
  5. Introduction to the Australian legal system and levels of government.
  6. Principles of justice and administrative decision making.
  7. Public Health law in Australia.
  8. The tools for regulation (legislation, courts and administration).

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Internal Lectures, case studies, small group activities, guest lecturers and discussions. External E-learning course work and activities are provided through MyECU and supported by a tutor.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentEssay20%
Case StudyEnvironmental health case study30%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentEssay20%
Case StudyEnvironmental health case study30%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Reynolds, C. (2011). Chapters 1-12. Public and Environmental Health Law (p. 496). The Federation Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/730047544
  • Reynolds, C. (2004). Public health law and regulation. Annandale, N.S.W.: The Federation Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/57251250?databaseList=638

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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