School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Occupational Hygiene Science
  • Unit Code

    OHS5118
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Adelle LIEBENBERG

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.

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. Systems of the body related to occupational factors.
  2. General mathematics required for OHS and occupational hygiene, including elementary algebra, indices, equations, basic statistics, logarithms and unit conversions.
  3. Principles of physics including noise, vibration, heat, ventilation, ionising and non-ionising radiation.
  4. 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.

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAnatomy and physiology25%
Case StudyOccupational Hygiene Maths and Statistics25%
Case StudyOccupational Hygiene Physics25%
Case StudyOccupational Hygiene Chemistry25%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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