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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Hygiene 3: Control
  • Unit Code

    OHS6162
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Adelle LIEBENBERG

Description

This is one of three practical units specializing in occupational hygiene. In this unit students will develop skills in the design and assessment of controls for physical, chemical and biological hazards in the workplace. The unit focuses on the use of the hierarchy of control, with a special emphasis on engineering controls, as well as administrative measures and personal protective equipment (PPE). These skills are fundamental for practitioner wanting to undertake roles in the field of occupational hygiene. Students are required to utilise and synthesize a range of information sources including scientific literature legislation, standards and guidelines, when making decisions about the outcomes of an assessment. They will have the opportunity to use a range of the occupational hygiene equipment in the field.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

All students will be required to participate in a 3 day workshop held at Joondalup campus to develop practical skills.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST5162

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the hierarchy of controls to reduce a person’s exposure to health hazards.
  2. Perform control method assessments using a range of equipment and monitoring techniques.
  3. Critically analyse the effectiveness of workplace exposure controls in collaboration with other professionals.
  4. Formulate appropriate interventions to improve the effectiveness of workplace control measures based upon monitoring results and an evaluation of data.

Unit Content

  1. Hierarchy of control.
  2. Dilution ventilation
  3. Exhaust ventilation
  4. Ventilation assessment techniques
  5. Control measures for physical Hazards including noise, vibration, thermal, light & radiation
  6. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  7. RPE and HPD FIt Testing
  8. Indoor air quality
  9. Biological control measures
  10. Control banding.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

In this unit, students complete learning modules online and are required to participate in online tutorials and discussion groups. There is a compulsory 3 day workshop to be attended on campus at a specified time, where students will refine their practical skills in the assessment of ventilation and noise controls. Students will produce a report on the practical findings of the hazard control assessment activities undertaken during the intensive on campus workshop.

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 StudyHierarchy of control case analysis 30%
TestOnline test30%
ReportHazard control monitoring and evaluation40%

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 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. 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, 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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Hygiene 3: Control
  • Unit Code

    OHS6162
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Adelle LIEBENBERG

Description

This is one of three practical units specializing in occupational hygiene. In this unit students will develop skills in the design and assessment of controls for physical, chemical and biological hazards in the workplace. The unit focuses on the use of the hierarchy of control, with a special emphasis on engineering controls, as well as administrative measures and personal protective equipment (PPE). These skills are fundamental for practitioner wanting to undertake roles in the field of occupational hygiene. Students are required to utilise and synthesize a range of information sources including scientific literature legislation, standards and guidelines, when making decisions about the outcomes of an assessment. They will have the opportunity to use a range of the occupational hygiene equipment in the field.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

All students will be required to participate in a 3 day workshop held at Joondalup campus to develop practical skills.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST5162

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the hierarchy of controls to reduce a person’s exposure to health hazards.
  2. Perform control method assessments using a range of equipment and monitoring techniques.
  3. Critically analyse the effectiveness of workplace exposure controls in collaboration with other professionals.
  4. Formulate appropriate interventions to improve the effectiveness of workplace control measures based upon monitoring results and an evaluation of data.

Unit Content

  1. Hierarchy of control.
  2. Dilution ventilation
  3. Exhaust ventilation
  4. Ventilation assessment techniques
  5. Control measures for physical Hazards including noise, vibration, thermal, light & radiation
  6. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  7. RPE and HPD FIt Testing
  8. Indoor air quality
  9. Biological control measures
  10. Control banding.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

In this unit, students complete learning modules online and are required to participate in online tutorials and discussion groups. There is a compulsory 3 day workshop to be attended on campus at a specified time, where students will refine their practical skills in the assessment of ventilation and noise controls. Students will produce a report on the practical findings of the hazard control assessment activities undertaken during the intensive on campus workshop.

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 StudyHierarchy of control case analysis 30%
TestOnline test30%
ReportHazard control monitoring and evaluation40%

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 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. 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, 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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