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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

    Health and Safety Principles in Practice

  • Unit Code

    OHS6135

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Martyn Frank CROSS

Description

This unit focuses on the business practices and management of safety aspects of occupational (work) health and safety processes. Students will further enhance their skills in the development of occupational (work) health and safety leadership, to enable them to promote and provide strategic direction, by setting performance measures, and monitoring performance. Students study leadership, governance and management theories and evaluate their role in organisational management and governance. Unit content explores the collection, analysis and synthesis of workplace health and safety information and data, through OHS (WHS) information systems, including auditing principles. Through the creation of a professional portfolio, students evaluate and capture evidence of their professional capability development aligned to the body of knowledge required for work in their chosen field of Occupational Health and Safety.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have successfully completed either OHS6132 or OHS6205 before undertaking this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded OHS5135

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate contemporary Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) management theories, performance, and principles to build safety leadership capacity to strengthen workplace health and safety practice.
  2. Apply evidence-based interventions aimed at improving workplace health and safety practice in the workplace.
  3. Communicate with clarity and purpose the rationale for health and safety initiatives using appropriate business language to raise the profile of safety in professional contexts.
  4. Apply self-management skills by evaluating and building awareness of workplace health and safety professional associations to support professional development planning.

Unit Content

  1. Management of workplace health and safety at the corporate level.
  2. Contemporary workplace health and safety, and environmental management program and practices .
  3. Workplace health and safety performance measurement.
  4. Health and safety professional in practice, including the development of an OHS business case.
  5. Collect, analyse and synthesise workplace health and safety information and data through OHS (WHS) information systems.
  6. Professional certification capability & development .
  7. Communication and the management of workplace health and safety information.
  8. Workplace health and safety management models incorporating modern management practices.
  9. Leadership in workplace health, safety policies, procedures, practices and governance.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning opportunities include case study discussion and analysis, where students apply knowledge to evaluate authentic workplace situations and work collaboratively to formulate and communicate appropriate solutions. Case studies will be drawn mainly from the resources, oil and gas, sectors and the priority industries outlined in the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022 will be utilised to demonstrate industry best practice.

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
AssignmentDeveloping an OHS Business Case50%
PortfolioProfessional Portfolio (including Group-work).50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Dunn, C. E., & Thakorlal, S. (2014). Australian Master Work Health and Safety Guide. (2nd ed.). North Ryde, NSW: CCH Australia. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/895759292?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.

  • Unit Title

    Health and Safety Principles in Practice

  • Unit Code

    OHS6135

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Martyn Frank CROSS

Description

This unit focuses on the business practices and management of safety aspects of occupational (work) health and safety processes. Students will further enhance their skills in the development of occupational (work) health and safety leadership, to enable them to promote and provide strategic direction, by setting performance measures, and monitoring performance. Students study leadership, governance and management theories and evaluate their role in organisational management and governance. Unit content explores the collection, analysis and synthesis of workplace health and safety information and data, through OHS (WHS) information systems, including auditing principles. Through the creation of a professional portfolio, students evaluate and capture evidence of their professional capability development aligned to the body of knowledge required for work in their chosen field of Occupational Health and Safety.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have successfully completed either OHS6132 or OHS6205 before undertaking this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded OHS5135

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate contemporary Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) management theories, performance, and principles to build safety leadership capacity to strengthen workplace health and safety practice.
  2. Apply evidence-based interventions aimed at improving workplace health and safety practice in the workplace.
  3. Communicate with clarity and purpose the rationale for health and safety initiatives using appropriate business language to raise the profile of safety in professional contexts.
  4. Apply self-management skills by evaluating and building awareness of workplace health and safety professional associations to support professional development planning.

Unit Content

  1. Management of workplace health and safety at the corporate level.
  2. Contemporary workplace health and safety, and environmental management program and practices .
  3. Workplace health and safety performance measurement.
  4. Health and safety professional in practice, including the development of an OHS business case.
  5. Collect, analyse and synthesise workplace health and safety information and data through OHS (WHS) information systems.
  6. Professional certification capability & development .
  7. Communication and the management of workplace health and safety information.
  8. Workplace health and safety management models incorporating modern management practices.
  9. Leadership in workplace health, safety policies, procedures, practices and governance.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning opportunities include case study discussion and analysis, where students apply knowledge to evaluate authentic workplace situations and work collaboratively to formulate and communicate appropriate solutions. Case studies will be drawn mainly from the resources, oil and gas, sectors and the priority industries outlined in the Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012-2022 will be utilised to demonstrate industry best practice.

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
AssignmentDeveloping an OHS Business Case50%
PortfolioProfessional Portfolio (including Group-work).50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Dunn, C. E., & Thakorlal, S. (2014). Australian Master Work Health and Safety Guide. (2nd ed.). North Ryde, NSW: CCH Australia. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/895759292?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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