LAWS6100Workplace Health and Safety Law

Course handbook

Description

The legal and regulatory system has a decided impact upon on health and safety in the workplace. Workplace Health and Safety Law builds upon core legal skills and encourages critical and reflective engagement with the varying aims and techniques of WHS law and how the current law reflects social realities. Students have the opportunity to further develop essential problem solving and communication skills with specialized knowledge and skills for research, which will equip them for high level professional practice and further learning in this important area.

Availability

Not currently offered.

This Course was last offered in Semester 2 - 2023.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an advanced and integrated understanding of both the foundational elements of, and recent developments in, the discipline of law as it relates to workplace health and safety;

2. Employ research principles and methods applicable to the relevant body of law, and apply cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate and analyse complex information and problems to apply the law to solve those problems;

3. Use high level oral and written communication skills to interpret and transmit knowledge, skills and ideas to specialist and non-specialist audiences;

4. Demonstrate appropriate mastery of theoretical knowledge in the WHS Law area and ability to reflect critically on theory, scholarship and professional practice;

5. Plan and execute a research-based project with a high level of personal autonomy and accountability.

Content

The topics in this course include the following:

1. the employer/employee relationship as it relates to workplace safety;
2. advanced consideration of tort liability in the workplace, including Negligence and Breach of Statutory Duty;
3. the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) and related legislation;
4. Workers' Compensation;
5. issues in litigation and
6. WHS and anti-discrimination laws.

Requisite

This course is only available to students enrolled in the programs:

[12334] Juris Doctor/Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (JD)

[12340] Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[12341] Bachelor of Social Science/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[12342] Bachelor of Communication/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[12343] Bachelor of Aboriginal Professional Practice/Bachelor of Laws(Honours)

[12346] Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[12347] Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Diploma of Legal Practice

[12348] Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40036] Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40037] Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40129] Bachelor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40130] Bachelor of Development Studies/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40150] Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40188] Bachelor of Global Indigenous Studies/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40189] Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40272] Bachelor of Criminology/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40279] Bachelor of Coastal and Marine Science/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40280] Bachelor of Biomedicine/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[40290] Bachelor of Psychological Science/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[50005] Bachelor of Media and Communication/Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

[50016] Juris Doctor

Assumed knowledge

LAWS6000, LAWS6001, LAWS6002A, LAWS6002B, LAWS6003A, LAWS6003B, LAWS6004A, LAWS6004B, LAWS6005.

Assessment items

Written Assignment: 2 x written assignments

Formal Examination: Open Book Examination

Participation: Participation

Course outline

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