MPH5309 · Work and health

Overview

This unit will cover the impacts and human cost of occupational disease and injury, occupational health and safety law, frameworks for primary prevention, workers' compensation systems, occupational rehabilitation, case studies highlighting historical achievements and challenges, international and national occupational health and safety (OHS) organizations.

Areas of study: Public health

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Analyse the human and economic cost and causes of workplace injury and death in Australia;
2. Critically appraise contemporary Work Health and Safety (WHS) data sources;
3. Describe the theoretical underpinnings of various injury models and their use within Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems;
4. Contextualise the legal framework applying to the workplace;
5. Communicate the fundamental principles of WHS practice
6. Analyse the WHS impacts of contemporary and changing work patterns and new and emerging challenges.

Workload

24 hours per week including directed and self-directed learning (including any asynchronous and synchronous tasks, prescribed activities and independent work).

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.