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

    Occupational Health Management
  • Unit Code

    OHS6138
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Adelle LIEBENBERG

Description

This unit focuses on the health aspects of occupational health and safety, primarily on the prevention and management of common acute and chronic occupational diseases. Students will develop pre-employment and ongoing medical screening and biological monitoring protocols, and will integrate occupational hygiene and occupational health data to accurately assess health risks in a work environment. Ethical issues involved in biological monitoring and exposure management will be investigated.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit is delivered online and as a consequence students wishing to enrol will need to have internet access.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded OHS5138

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and integrate data to assess work-related health risks.
  2. Demonstrate a command of academic skills which include writing referencing and researching at a postgraduate level.
  3. Demonstrate professional competencies in the use of commonly used business technologies.
  4. Design, implement and manage healthy workplace interventions.
  5. Develop appropriate health surveillance protocols taking into account ethical issues.
  6. Evaluate the occurrence of occupational diseases in the workplace.
  7. Identify the complex nature of occupational diseases and barriers in their identification and diagnosis.

Unit Content

  1. Corporate Health and Using External Resources.
  2. Hazardous Occupational Health Exposures including the classification of occupational diseases.
  3. Health Data Management and Reporting.
  4. Health Risk Assessments including ethical issues related to biological monitoring.
  5. History of occupational diseases.
  6. Occupational Health Management Overview & Theoretical Aspects.
  7. Occupational Health Management in the Workplace.
  8. Pre-Employment and Ongoing Health Screening.
  9. Proactive verses Reactive Occupational Health Management (OHM).
  10. Travel and Remote Health.
  11. Workplace Infection Control.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning Management System and seminars. In this unit students investigate and practically apply health management to a variety occupational environments across Australia and internationally. Students will develop research skills by locating and critically assessing various standards for the development of health management protocols for a occupational environments in Australia and internationally. Students will, in teams, use the on line environment to problem solve and generate evidence based health management processes that are ethical and sustainable.

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
AssignmentOccupational health management briefing paper40%
ReportDevelopment of an occupational health surveillance program for a workplace, using a needs analysis process.60%

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

    Occupational Health Management
  • Unit Code

    OHS6138
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Adelle LIEBENBERG

Description

This unit focuses on the health aspects of occupational health and safety, primarily on the prevention and management of common acute and chronic occupational diseases. Students will develop pre-employment and ongoing medical screening and biological monitoring protocols, and will integrate occupational hygiene and occupational health data to accurately assess health risks in a work environment. Ethical issues involved in biological monitoring and exposure management will be investigated.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit is delivered online and as a consequence students wishing to enrol will need to have internet access.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded OHS5138

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and integrate data to assess work-related health risks.
  2. Demonstrate a command of academic skills which include writing referencing and researching at a postgraduate level.
  3. Demonstrate professional competencies in the use of commonly used business technologies.
  4. Design, implement and manage healthy workplace interventions.
  5. Develop appropriate health surveillance protocols taking into account ethical issues.
  6. Evaluate the occurrence of occupational diseases in the workplace.
  7. Identify the complex nature of occupational diseases and barriers in their identification and diagnosis.

Unit Content

  1. Corporate Health and Using External Resources.
  2. Hazardous Occupational Health Exposures including the classification of occupational diseases.
  3. Health Data Management and Reporting.
  4. Health Risk Assessments including ethical issues related to biological monitoring.
  5. History of occupational diseases.
  6. Occupational Health Management Overview & Theoretical Aspects.
  7. Occupational Health Management in the Workplace.
  8. Pre-Employment and Ongoing Health Screening.
  9. Proactive verses Reactive Occupational Health Management (OHM).
  10. Travel and Remote Health.
  11. Workplace Infection Control.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Learning Management System and seminars. In this unit students investigate and practically apply health management to a variety occupational environments across Australia and internationally. Students will develop research skills by locating and critically assessing various standards for the development of health management protocols for a occupational environments in Australia and internationally. Students will, in teams, use the on line environment to problem solve and generate evidence based health management processes that are ethical and sustainable.

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
AssignmentOccupational health management briefing paper40%
ReportDevelopment of an occupational health surveillance program for a workplace, using a needs analysis process.60%

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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