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

    Leadership in Workplace Health and Safety
  • Unit Code

    OHS6215
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Marcus Paul CATTANI

Description

This unit provides a framework for leading the design and implementation of Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) systems and organisational culture development in an organisation. The Unit provides students with an understanding of organisation’s response to WHS legal obligations with a focus on the role of senior managers and senior WHS managers. The Unit provides an understanding of the benefit of linking operational and safety leadership to address the organisation’s risk profile.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Argue the importance of various workplace organisational culture models and their impact on workplace health and safety.
  2. Apply a leadership management framework to decrease the risk of incidents in workplaces.
  3. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of due diligence and corporate governance in relation to workplace health and safety
  4. Examine an organisational workplace health and safety risk profile to enable the development of an injury prevention strategy.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to workplace health and safety leadership.
  2. Core concepts of leadership.
  3. Organisational culture.
  4. Managing teams.
  5. Stakeholder engagement.
  6. Workplace health and safety management systems.
  7. Safety and health hazard management.
  8. Planning and performance measurement.
  9. Emergency management.
  10. Governance and due diligence.
  11. Occupational workplace health and safety leadership in practice.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-line modules, e-learning activities, tutorials and readings

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
ParticipationDiscussion of case studies and completion of weekly reflective questions10%
ProjectProject- Workplace safety leadership50%
TestOnline test40%

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

    Leadership in Workplace Health and Safety
  • Unit Code

    OHS6215
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Marcus Paul CATTANI

Description

This unit provides a framework for leading the design and implementation of Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) systems and organisational culture development in an organisation. The Unit provides students with an understanding of organisation’s response to WHS legal obligations with a focus on the role of senior managers and senior WHS managers. The Unit provides an understanding of the benefit of linking operational and safety leadership to address the organisation’s risk profile.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Argue the importance of various workplace organisational culture models and their impact on workplace health and safety.
  2. Apply a leadership management framework to decrease the risk of incidents in workplaces.
  3. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of due diligence and corporate governance in relation to workplace health and safety
  4. Examine an organisational workplace health and safety risk profile to enable the development of an injury prevention strategy.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to workplace health and safety leadership.
  2. Core concepts of leadership.
  3. Organisational culture.
  4. Managing teams.
  5. Stakeholder engagement.
  6. Workplace health and safety management systems.
  7. Safety and health hazard management.
  8. Planning and performance measurement.
  9. Emergency management.
  10. Governance and due diligence.
  11. Occupational workplace health and safety leadership in practice.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-line modules, e-learning activities, tutorials and readings

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
ParticipationDiscussion of case studies and completion of weekly reflective questions10%
ProjectProject- Workplace safety leadership50%
TestOnline test40%

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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