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 Toxicology
  • Unit Code

    OHS6178
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Martyn Frank CROSS

Description

This unit will explore advanced concepts of Occupational Toxicology including the assessment of health risks associated with exposures to chemicals in the workplace. Students will investigate toxicology from two different perspectives. The first from an occupational viewpoint where students examine toxic responses associated with exposures in specific occupational cohorts. The second perspective examines organ specific toxicity as this relates to agent specific toxic responses.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed OHS5118.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST5178.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Conduct human health risk assessments using toxicological principles, to determine the effects of hazardous substances on worker and community health.
  2. Evaluate toxicity testing procedures and data to predict the consequences of worker exposure to hazardous substances.
  3. Predict the toxicokinetics of various hazardous substances and the impact on different organs and systems of the body.
  4. Apply health risk assessment outcomes to be able to formulate control strategies to protect workers and the community from exposure to hazardous substances.

Unit Content

  1. General occupational toxicology considerations.
  2. Absorption, distribution and excretion of toxins.
  3. Biotransformation of toxicants.
  4. Hazardous substances encountered in the workplace
  5. Health risk assessment.
  6. Toxicology of organs and systems.
  7. Testing procedures: including carcinogenesis, mutagenesis, developmental toxicology, lactation.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-line modules and tutorials supported by prescribed texts and discussion groups.

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
AssignmentFundamentals of Toxicokinetics20%
AssignmentHealth Risk Assessment30%
Literature ReviewLiterature review of the response/s of a target organ to toxic substances50%

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

    Occupational Toxicology
  • Unit Code

    OHS6178
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Martyn Frank CROSS

Description

This unit will explore advanced concepts of Occupational Toxicology including the assessment of health risks associated with exposures to chemicals in the workplace. Students will investigate toxicology from two different perspectives. The first from an occupational viewpoint where students examine toxic responses associated with exposures in specific occupational cohorts. The second perspective examines organ specific toxicity as this relates to agent specific toxic responses.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed OHS5118.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST5178.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Conduct human health risk assessments using toxicological principles, to determine the effects of hazardous substances on worker and community health.
  2. Evaluate toxicity testing procedures and data to predict the consequences of worker exposure to hazardous substances.
  3. Predict the toxicokinetics of various hazardous substances and the impact on different organs and systems of the body.
  4. Apply health risk assessment outcomes to be able to formulate control strategies to protect workers and the community from exposure to hazardous substances.

Unit Content

  1. General occupational toxicology considerations.
  2. Absorption, distribution and excretion of toxins.
  3. Biotransformation of toxicants.
  4. Hazardous substances encountered in the workplace
  5. Health risk assessment.
  6. Toxicology of organs and systems.
  7. Testing procedures: including carcinogenesis, mutagenesis, developmental toxicology, lactation.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-line modules and tutorials supported by prescribed texts and discussion groups.

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
AssignmentFundamentals of Toxicokinetics20%
AssignmentHealth Risk Assessment30%
Literature ReviewLiterature review of the response/s of a target organ to toxic substances50%

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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