TM5540 - Occupational Health

Credit points:	03
Year:	2008
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Discipline of Public Health & Tropical Medicine

This subject focuses on the practice of occupational health within national and international frameworks. It explores the impact of the occupational environment on health, including public health, and reviews various occupational health hazards in industry. Possible strategies for the management of occupational health issues are also examined.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the history and basis for practice of occupational health in Australia within the global context, including relevant legislation and guidelines;
• Understand the impact of the occupational environment on health, including public health;
• Understand the various types of occupational health hazards in industry;
• Understand the causation and methods of prevention for various important industrial injuries and diseases;
• Appreciate and apply various strategies for the management of occupational health issues, including hazard identification, risk assessment, risk control and review.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Availabilities
External, Study Period 2
Census Date 05-Sep-2008
Coordinator:	Professor Peter Leggat
Contact hours:	60 hours - On-line
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU and Printed materials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50% - 100%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.