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

The Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental (OHSE) Management provides students with advanced technical competencies in OHSE theory and practice. The course comprises eight units that will prepare you for a professional-level position in OHSE. The Graduate Diploma in OHSEM is a pathway program to the Master of OHSEM, and is an accredited course that provides students with the educational requirements to seek certification as an OHS Professional.The Graduate Diploma and Masters of Occupational Health Safety and Environmental Management are programs that are accredited with the Australian OHS Education Accreditation Board. This means students who graduate from these degrees will be deemed to have met the OHS qualification content requirement for certification at the OHS professional level (administered by the Safety Institute of Australia).

Build a thorough understanding OHSE legislation and systems. Study change management and its link to improving OHSE performance. Touch on advanced topics including chemical hazards and cybersecurity risks.

Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Management

This is a 20 credit point subject in which students work with appointed supervisors on a piece of applied research related to their business specialisation. It is an individual program of supervised research which contributes significantly to a student’s knowledge and capabilities in an area of professional practice.

Research Project

This subject reflects on the nature of ethical leadership and socially responsible organisations. The aim of this unit is to contribute to the development of ethical leaders with a commitment to the advancement of the common good. Increasingly, effective leaders and organisations understand that ethics are an integral component of sound business and organisational functioning. This unit seeks to develop reflective leaders with independent, critical thinking, equipped to apply practically relevant subsidiarity principles and ethical leadership practices in contemporary workplaces. Ethical and moral frameworks that guide ethical decision-making in organisations will be critically examined.

Explore leadership styles, motives and practices of ethical leaders. Strategise towards a socially responsible corporate culture. Develop a moral framework to support ethical decision-making and navigate workplace challenges. Commit to the common good.

Ethical Leadership

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

This unit covers the topics related to occupational health and wellbeing in organisations, emphasizing the principles of good work design and the practical means to integrate occupational health and safety, health promotion, wellness, work design, and productivity. Topics cover common occupational health hazards such as manual tasks and the interaction of risk factors (environmental health exposures), office-based work environments and sedentary work behaviours, and psychosocial hazards (occupational stress, workplace bullying, occupational violence, and shift-work and fatigue), as well as basic but integrated principles for human factors; ergonomics; workplace wellness, health, and wellbeing programs; and return to work.

Achieve an advanced understanding of occupational health and wellbeing’s role in modern workplaces. Classify physical and mental health issues. Unpack ergonomics and fatigue. Establish the core principles of good work design and OHS integration.

Occupational Health and Wellbeing

This unit will help students understand practical OHSE data characteristics, applications and limitations. It will also assist students to interpret and make recommendations from third party research and reports. Students will develop skills in influencing decision makers through the persuasive interpretation of empirically grounded data, such as leading and lagging indicators of OHSE performance, and alignment with organisational culture and values and understand ethical practice for OHSEM.

Compare various approaches to occupational health, safety and environment management.
Learn how to lead OHSE teams. Identify ways to bolster performance at all organisational levels. Focus on communicating with influence and management system audits.

Improving OHSE Performance

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

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

This Unit employs a learning and teaching strategy that combines active learning (engaging with online lecture videos, reading, writing and case studies to analyse, synthesise and problem solve) and peer learning methods (engaging with peers and the lecturer via online tools to collaborate, query and elaborate). Live online classrooms will be offered at regular intervals throughout the teaching period to allow students synchronous access to their lecturer and peers at defined times. Use of applied case studies and scenarios with reference to legislation and standards as well as national and international contexts are used to facilitate applied action learning.

Learn how to plan, develop and implement an OHSE management system. See how to use the system to manage risk, educate users and investigate accidents.
Highlight the methods you can use to encourage safer human behaviour in an organisation.

OHSE Management Systems

This is an introductory subject that introduces students to the principles of Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental (OHSE) management. It provides an introduction to the main areas of focus for an OHSE manager, including concepts and current thinking related to hazard and risk, work design, the conceptual structure underpinning OHS professional practice and the legislative and organisational context for practice, all of which are addressed in greater detail in subsequent subjects.

Tally the responsibilities of the occupational health, safety and environment manager. Become aware of common OHSE hazards and risks. Test the conceptual frameworks that guide best practice. Keep up to date with legislation and industrial law.

Principles of OHSE Management

In this unit students will learn key marketing concepts including market orientation, customer acquisition, market offering and design, market environmental scanning, positioning, brand management and the customer experience. Students will examine the role of ethics, law and societal marketing in developing social understanding in a marketing context. Students will examine current marketing practice in a diverse range of marketing contexts and will be introduced to the marketing functions required to establish competitive positioning and manage marketing decisions in the firm. This unit will provide students with the skills to effectively evaluate, manage and design the marketing function and to contribute to a firm&#39;s future marketing direction through applying modern marketing thought.

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