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Work Health and Safety
Postgraduate | GRF-EHR706 | 2022
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Identify hazards in the workplace. Pore over the Work Health and Safety Act. Learn the four-step risk management procedure designed to protect workers from work hazards.Build a strong theoretical foundation for your health and safety studies.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Work Health and Safety
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will have:
- an appreciation of the key elements of a WHS management system
- an understanding of the main parts of the model Work Health and Safety Act
- the ability to apply the four steps in the risk management procedure to protect workers from hazards at work
- an understanding of the main types of hazards at work
- an appreciation of process of eliminating or controlling the risk to health and safety at work.
- Introduction
- OHS management systems
- Legal framework
- Risk management process
- Workplaces environment
- Manual handling
- Noise
- Plant
- Psychosocial hazards
This subject was previously known as IRL160.
This subject provides you with a practical and theoretical understanding of health and safety in Australian workplaces. The subject examines the legal obligations in the workplace and risk management. You will have an opportunity to transfer theoretical knowledge to practice by undertaking analysis of a workplace, a practical exercise which will also require you to consider the theoretical aspects of the Workplace Health & Safety problems that you discover.
- Online Discussion (15%)
- Written Assignment 1 (35%)
- Written Assignment 2 (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2022 - Postgraduate Single Subjects
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2022 - Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE
PostgraduateUNE-PRO-GCE