Not currently offered
Course code

OHSE6070

Units

10 units

Level

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

  1. Foundations of workplace health and safety management
  2. Evidence-based approach to workplace health and safety management
  3. Organisational safety behaviour and leadership
  4. Organisational safety climate and culture
  5. High reliability organisations and Resilience engineering
  6. 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.