OHSE6070
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
Effective management of workplace health and safety risks is an important in driving organisational performance This course equips students with advanced knowledge and skills to do this effectively in a changing context of work through an evidence-based approach. They also learn to evaluate workplace health and safety management
Availability
Not currently offered.
This Course was last offered in Semester 1 - 2021.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Integrate conceptual and theoretical knowledge and principles of organisations and human motivation to plan workplace health and safety management interventions
2. Apply evidence-based workplace health and safety management solutions to evaluate and improve performance
3. Analyse and evaluate organisational safety behaviour and leadership for improving workplace health and safety
4. Provide advice on how organisational climate and culture initiatives can be integrated with high reliability and resilience engineering strategies to improve an organisation's safety culture
5. Assess and evaluate workplace health and safety management interventions and strategies
Content
- Foundations of workplace health and safety management
- Evidence-based approach to workplace health and safety management
- Organisational safety behaviour and leadership
- Organisational safety climate and culture
- High reliability organisations and Resilience engineering
- Evaluating workplace health and safety management
Assessment items
Literature Review: Review on Workplace Health and Safety Management
Online Learning Activity: On line Discussions
Presentation: Presentation on Workplace Health and Safety Management
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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