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 there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Health Management
  • Unit Code

    OHS6138
  • Year

    2023
  • 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.

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyOccupational Health Management Case Study30%
AssignmentOccupational health management briefing paper30%
ReportDevelopment of an occupational health surveillance program for a workplace, using a needs analysis process.40%

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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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 Health Management
  • Unit Code

    OHS6138
  • Year

    2023
  • 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.

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 School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyOccupational Health Management Case Study30%
AssignmentOccupational health management briefing paper30%
ReportDevelopment of an occupational health surveillance program for a workplace, using a needs analysis process.40%

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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