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Study graduate certificate business & management online with Australian Catholic University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

The Graduate Certificate in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental (OHSE) Management provides students with basic technical competencies in OHSE theory and practice. The course comprises four units that will prepare you for an entry-level position in OHSE. The Graduate Certificate in OHSEM is a pathway program to the Graduate Diploma in OHSEM and Master of OHSEM, both of which are accredited courses that provide students with the educational requirements to seek certification as an OHS Professional.

Get to know the essential OHSE legislation, systems, and terminology that form the basis of safe workplaces. You’ll look at common hazards in the workplace, determine risk and controls. Strive for wellbeing and health at work.

Graduate Certificate in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Management

Gain enhanced professional recognition and marketability to advance your career. The Graduate Certificate in Business Administration gives you an overview of key business functions while also providing the foundation for a generalist management qualification in the Master of Business Administration.During this course you will be introduced to important management disciplines such as finance, communications, marketing, and business organisation. And you will get the opportunity to apply your new knowledge to your organisation via assessments. All our units are embedded with the United Nations sustainable goals.If you wish to advance your qualification further, the Graduate Certificate in Business Administration articulates into the graduate diploma or Master of Business Administration. It also provides a pathway to further postgraduate study if you have not completed a bachelor’s degree.

A starting point for your postgrad management studies and career progression. You’ll explore finance, business communication, and organisational behaviour from a leadership perspective. Graduate ready for roles in management or study towards your MBA.

Graduate Certificate in Business Administration

The ACU Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education is to empower students to become capable and responsive educators of health professionals. Students will be supported in the learning of foundational theories, models and perspectives of learning and teaching with an emphasis on learning and practice development in workplaces. Students will explore the importance of constructive alignment in curriculum development, assessment strategies and evaluation of programs. The focus of this course will be to advance evidence-based learning and teaching activities and programs, coordinate collaboration among the health professions, and provide high quality learning experiences with the overall intention of enhancing safe and quality patient care. This course is designed for health care professionals seeking a pathway into health professional education. On successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education, graduates should be able to: describe learning and teaching perspectives, knowledge and skills required for health educators to provide quality learning and teaching opportunities that meets the needs of contemporary health professional education; apply specialist best-practice knowledge and skills to develop, implement, evaluate and communicate educational strategies that address, respond to, and align with educational priorities, approaches and technologies within the workplace; integrate the principles and perspectives of contemporary theories of workplace learning, to develop and implement culturally safe and inclusive curriculum design and assessment practices.

Learn the foundational theories of adult education that apply to health professionals. You’ll cover curriculum design, assessment, and evaluation. Strive to deliver inclusive learning opportunities in health settings.

Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education

This unit covers the Australian legal system, including the fundamental concepts of common law; the doctrine of judicial precedent, statutory Interpretation, law making processes and court systems. It covers the constitutional separation of powers for the Commonwealth and State and Territory jurisdictions and how the state-based Work Health and Safety and Environment laws function in the wider legal system.

Shape your understanding of how OHSE law operates.Question the fundamentals of common law, judicial precedent and the legal system. See where these concepts cross into the domain of work health and safety. Identify breaches of OHSE legislation.

OHSE Law in Practice

Being able to undertake and interpret research is an increasingly important skill in many roles within business. subject will help you develop these skills by teaching you about a range of (quantitative and qualitative) research designs that are applicable for business, the methodological, practical and ethical considerations involved in executing those research designs, and how research design choices powerfully shape the nature and validity of research findings. In doing so, this subject aims to help you make more informed research design choices and to more critically assess research findings.

Research Methods

Management’s understanding and ability to ensure best practice in corporate governance and risk management are seen as being of critical importance to an organisation. This subject provides an introduction to the theoretical, conceptual and ethical issues which impinge on the way in which corporate directors and managers work, solve problems and interact with their employees, shareholders, clients, government and statutory agencies, and the community at large. The nature of governance will be examined against a background of how ethical perspectives influence decision-making. Risk management will be examined in detail given its vital role in corporate governance.

Discover the qualities that effective corporate directors and managers demonstrate. Examine concepts that underpin corporate governance. You’ll define what makes an organisation socially responsible, and understand how to manage risk in an organisational context.

Corporate Governance and Risk Management

The workplace encompasses advanced risks to worker health, safety, and the environment including chemical process hazards and cybersecurity risks that must be managed. In addition, recovery after workplace incidents involves rehabilitation to return the person, the workplace and/or the environment to a state as close as possible to the pre-event state and incident analysis to prevent the event occurring again. This requires unique and advanced knowledge, skills and abilities for OHSE professionals. In this subject the importance of key concepts of incident analysis, worker rehabilitation and environmental impact management are critically analysed and applied. You will have the opportunity to explore, discuss and apply skills in process safety, cybersecurity, applied incident analysis models and methods, workers compensation and return to work processes, environmental impact analysis and to communicate information about these to organisational stakeholders. This subject aims to provide you with the necessary knowledge, understanding and applied skills in incident analysis and mitigation, remediation of work associated harm to people and the environment using an evidence-base to support your practice as OHSE professional.

Advanced Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Management

Knowledge of specific physical hazards encountered in workplaces as well as skills in determining associated risk exposure and harm reduction, are critical components of OHSE professional practice and their responsibility to the common good, the environment and society. In this unit students will learn how exposure to hazards such as noise, thermal comfort, hazardous chemicals, confined spaces, infectious agents, asbestos, electricity, plant, and hazardous wastes may impact workers&#39; and others&#39; health, and the environment.

Investigate physical hazards in the workplace and address approaches for dealing with them. On your checklist are chemicals, asbestos, noise, electricity and confined spaces. You’ll assess risk levels and compile strategies and intervention methods.

Physical Hazards in Occupational Environments

Leaders and managers in health care are expected to have a range of skills necessary to meet the challenges involved in leading their staff through a diverse and dynamic workplace environment. These challenges include: the evolving use of digital technologies in healthcare, ensuring patient safety, managing staff productivity, performance and retention as well as taking lead responsibility for quality improvement and cost efficiencies. Meeting these challenges requires effective skills that guide and shape practice improvement through facilitative processes that promote staff engagement, empowerment and retention, support team cohesion and collaboration and are more likely to result in a safe and high quality healthcare environment. Facilitative leadership, coaching and mentoring is based on mutual respect, trust and value alignment resulting in collective responsibility for patient safety, and fosters innovation in practice by promoting creativity and critical thinking.This unit aims to prepare students with facilitative leadership, coaching and mentoring skills that are required to build their capacity to apply a systems approach in facilitating, coaching and mentoring staff in working effectively together for the common good in a variety of healthcare settings.

Engage and empower staff in health care environments. You’ll study techniques in mentoring and coaching and build skills to put them in practice. Foster continuous improvement in healthcare settings. Build capacity, motivate, and support staff to evolve.

Facilitative Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring

Understanding, using and interpreting statistics is crucial to health science research and practice, particularly in monitoring health outcomes and decision-making processes about interventions. This unit will develop students&#39; knowledge of fundamental statistical concepts, such as descriptive and inferential statistics, common statistical tests and statistical methods frequently used in health science research. This will include hypothesis testing, estimation, associations, modelling relationships and prediction using different methods such as regression analyses. Throughout the unit, students will consolidate their understanding of statistical theory through its application to practice. While there are some formulae and computational elements to the unit, the emphasis is on interpretation and concepts. Besides the theoretical material, this unit will also enable students to run basic analyses using common statistical software. Using this software, students will analyse simulated health science data sets and then interpret the results obtained. This unit aims to extend students&#39; statistical understanding and analytical expertise, which can then be applied to practice through critical appraisal statistical methods used in health science research.

Explore fundamental statistical concepts and use common statistics software. You’ll learn how statistics are used in health science research and practice. Gain skills to interpret health-related data. Make confident decisions based on evidence.

Biostatistics for Health Sciences

Adverse events and poor quality care can have a significant impact on health care costs and health system sustainability. This subject is essential for future leaders in health care who need to have specialised knowledge and skill in applying effective quality measures in a digital environment to administer culturally safe health services across a variety of healthcare contexts.In this subject, students will explore the emergence of the quality movement and accreditation and safety standards that have been progressively driven by consumer expectations around safe, quality care, in preparing to become effective health care administrators. This foundational knowledge is required to enable interpretation and evaluation of paper based and digitally supported, quality and safety processes and to develop a repertoire of quality improvement tools used to create strategies that improve quality and safety processes.The aim of this subject is to ensure that students can effectively promote quality and safety leading to better health outcomes as well as cost efficiencies in a variety of health care settings. Managing health care in this way ensures that safe, quality care is a transformative process of continuous improvement that respects the dignity of individuals and contributes to the common good.

Quality and Safety in Health Care

This unit provides an in-depth study of the theory and context on Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship. It will explore several dimensions surrounding business opportunity creation and growth, in corporate and start-up environments, underpinned by the questions, concerns and decisions made by entrepreneurs. The dimensions explored will cover conceptualisation, innovation, strategy, operations, financing, management and marketing in forming sustainable businesses that generate wealth for both individuals and society.

Entrepreneurship

This subject provides students with necessary knowledge and skills needed to key business decisions relative to financing, investment and dividend are made. Students will need to understand the concepts of risk and return, raising funds through issuing shares and bonds, investment evaluation, dividend policy, cost of capital, capital structure, leverage, and working capital management. Students will also need to compare and contrast the role of finance managers in financing and investment decisions faced by all firms. You will further develop skills in analysing and developing strategies for making business decisions to generate sustainable shareholder value.

A core MBA subject that sets out key financial management skills and knowledge. Prepare for business decision making, drawing on topics including ethics and common good, risk and return, and financing through debt and equity capital.

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