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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Food Safety
  • Unit Code

    HST3182
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Yves Bernard Garry DINE

Description

In this unit students will learn how to identify, evaluate and control health risks associated with the consumption of contaminated food. Unit content includes an overview of food legislation, food borne disease and introductory level food microbiology. Students will learn how to monitor and control food risks using a systematic preventative approach and develop skills in auditing, licensing and control of food premises.

Equivalent Rule

Unit previously coded HST3186

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate food safety to diverse population stakeholders, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to explain how to minimise the spread of food-borne illness.
  2. Apply the principles of risk assessment to food safety issues in food premises to assess compliance with appropriate standards.
  3. Develop appropriate control options for identified hazards and risks in food premises to evaluate food safety requirements.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to food hygiene and food poisoning
  2. Introduction to food microbiology
  3. Food poisoning and infection
  4. Food contamination
  5. Food spoilage and preservation
  6. Food handlers and food borne disease
  7. Design and control of food premises
  8. Cleaning, disinfection and pest control
  9. Food legislation
  10. Monitoring and control, including Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP).

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning activities provide the opportunity for students to evaluate contemporary case studies and discuss possible solutions with others, to stimulate critical thinking and problem solving abilities. Learning materials are supplemented with guest lectures from industry professionals. Students will develop a food safety plan and learn how to communicate food related health information to diverse audiences.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationFood Safety Issue presented for diverse audiences30%
AssignmentFood Safety Plan30%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationFood Safety Issue presented for diverse audiences30%
AssignmentFood Safety Plan30%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Food Safety
  • Unit Code

    HST3182
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Yves Bernard Garry DINE

Description

In this unit students will learn how to identify, evaluate and control health risks associated with the consumption of contaminated food. Unit content includes an overview of food legislation, food borne disease and introductory level food microbiology. Students will learn how to monitor and control food risks using a systematic preventative approach and develop skills in auditing, licensing and control of food premises.

Equivalent Rule

Unit previously coded HST3186

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate food safety to diverse population stakeholders, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to explain how to minimise the spread of food-borne illness.
  2. Apply the principles of risk assessment to food safety issues in food premises to assess compliance with appropriate standards.
  3. Develop appropriate control options for identified hazards and risks in food premises to evaluate food safety requirements.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to food hygiene and food poisoning
  2. Introduction to food microbiology
  3. Food poisoning and infection
  4. Food contamination
  5. Food spoilage and preservation
  6. Food handlers and food borne disease
  7. Design and control of food premises
  8. Cleaning, disinfection and pest control
  9. Food legislation
  10. Monitoring and control, including Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP).

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning activities provide the opportunity for students to evaluate contemporary case studies and discuss possible solutions with others, to stimulate critical thinking and problem solving abilities. Learning materials are supplemented with guest lectures from industry professionals. Students will develop a food safety plan and learn how to communicate food related health information to diverse audiences.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationFood Safety Issue presented for diverse audiences30%
AssignmentFood Safety Plan30%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationFood Safety Issue presented for diverse audiences30%
AssignmentFood Safety Plan30%
ExaminationEnd of Semester Examination40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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