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.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Hygiene Science
  • Unit Code

    OHS5118
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Jacques de Villiers OOSTHUIZEN

Description

This unit covers various aspects of anatomy, physiology, physics, chemistry and mathematics as they relate to the practice of workplace/occupational health and safety and occupational hygiene. The unit is designed for students who enter the program without an undergraduate degree in science.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

On-line

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Use general mathematics to calculate and analyse OHS statistics and occupational hygiene data.
  2. Apply the basic principles of physics related to the assessment of noise, vibration and radiation in an occupational context;
  3. Apply basic principles of chemistry underpinning the safe use of chemicals in the workplace and the quantification of airborne concentrations of contaminants.
  4. Evaluate the relationship between the workplace environment and its interaction on human physiology.

Unit Content

  1. General mathematics required for OHS and occupational hygiene, including elementary algebra, indices, equations, basic statistics, logarithms and unit conversions.
  2. Principles of physics including noise, vibration, heat, ventilation, ionising and non-ionising radiation.
  3. Principles of chemistry including nomenclature, properties of gases, liquids, dusts, vapour pressure and the gas laws, calculations related to airborne concentrations and commonly used methods of chemical analysis.
  4. Systems of the body related to occupational factors.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-line delivery of modules

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestMaths and statistics10%
TestPhysics10%
TestChemistry10%
AssignmentAnatomy and physiology20%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

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.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Hygiene Science
  • Unit Code

    OHS5118
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Jacques de Villiers OOSTHUIZEN

Description

This unit covers various aspects of anatomy, physiology, physics, chemistry and mathematics as they relate to the practice of workplace/occupational health and safety and occupational hygiene. The unit is designed for students who enter the program without an undergraduate degree in science.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

On-line

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Use general mathematics to calculate and analyse OHS statistics and occupational hygiene data.
  2. Apply the basic principles of physics related to the assessment of noise, vibration and radiation in an occupational context;
  3. Apply basic principles of chemistry underpinning the safe use of chemicals in the workplace and the quantification of airborne concentrations of contaminants.
  4. Evaluate the relationship between the workplace environment and its interaction on human physiology.

Unit Content

  1. General mathematics required for OHS and occupational hygiene, including elementary algebra, indices, equations, basic statistics, logarithms and unit conversions.
  2. Principles of physics including noise, vibration, heat, ventilation, ionising and non-ionising radiation.
  3. Principles of chemistry including nomenclature, properties of gases, liquids, dusts, vapour pressure and the gas laws, calculations related to airborne concentrations and commonly used methods of chemical analysis.
  4. Systems of the body related to occupational factors.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-line delivery of modules

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestMaths and statistics10%
TestPhysics10%
TestChemistry10%
AssignmentAnatomy and physiology20%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination50%

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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