Occupational Health and Wellbeing

• • Significance of occupational health and wellbeing, human factors and ergonomics
  • Organise, analyse, and synthesis information arising from product and task analysis: physical & environmental, cognitive/human factors, organisational
  • Human, organisation, performance and systems analysis
  • Manual tasks: calculate risks for musculoskeletal disorders (acute and cumulative), risk management, participatory ergonomics and design strategies
  • Office workstation ergonomics issues
  • Human information processing, shift-work and fatigue and OHSE
  • Psychosocial hazards, occupational stress and the wellbeing of employees
  • Psychosocial hazards resulting in workplace bullying & occupational violence and healthy workplaces
  • Technology, work design principles, tools & methods and human diversity
  • Integration of occupational health & safety with good work design and other business unit activity
  • Planning workplace wellness strategies for diverse individual needs
  • Fundamentals of return to work considerations and its impact on employees and business sustainability

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• ACU-OHS612 (Not currently available)

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

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.

Three assessment items are required in this Unit. To pass this unit, students are required to achieve an overall mark of at least 50% and must make an attempt at all three assessment items.

• Discussion Forum Activities (25%)
• Workplace Risk Analysis (40%)
• Video presentation (35%)