Overview
In this problem based unit, you will be faced with a range of hazards, learning to apply both current problem solving approaches and a systems oriented approach to analysis with common systematic principles. The learning process is focused on specific hazards, chosen because they represent important issues in occupational health today and in the future. You will be expected to be able to extend your knowledge of the process to tackle new issues, although these may be issues that you have not previously dealt with. You will learn advanced approaches to the treatment of hazards and risk management, including knowledge of managing risk where a hazard cannot be eliminated. You will also learn the nature of illness and injury, as well as the pathogenesis to organs of the body caused by occupational exposure to a broad range of hazards. After graduation, you will be able to apply the problem solving and systems oriented approaches taught in this unit to contemporary employment settings, in particular to solving hazards not previously known to you.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Successful completion of 48 credit points.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback
Some students found group work challenging.
Develop tight student contract that must be used by groups from the outset of group work. This contract should specify the processes that will be used by the group to agree workloads and allocation of grades against individual KPIs.
Students were allowed to nominate their own groups so that they could work with people they knew. This seemed to work well for these groups.
- Analyse actual occupational health cases and demonstrate individual initiative and effective problem solving in occupational health.
- Apply a systems approach to complex problem solving in occupational health. thereby acquiring an ability to extend the reach of managing risk in diverse settings.
- Apply the principles of critical assessment of severity and urgency in occupational health.
- Identify the real problems in occupational health, including indoor and outdoor environments.
- Apply knowledge of paths of exposure and pathogenesis to the principles of monitoring of place and person.
- Describe the nature of illness and injury associated with occupational exposure to certain hazards.
Not applicable
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||
| 2 - Portfolio - 70% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Portfolio - 70% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
r.kift@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction to Course
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Occupational toxicology
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Risk management and exposure
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Chemical hazards 1-Dusts and particulates
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Chemical hazards 2-Chemical contaminants
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Biological hazards
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Control of Hazards- Chemical and biological
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Physical hazards 1- Noise, vibration and lighting
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Physical hazards 2- Radiation and temperature
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Control of Hazards- Physical
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Other exposures
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Course Summary
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1 Written Assessment
Group Written Assignment 1
Details
Your lecturer will provide a real problem that involves one specific Hazard as a case study. You will identify the Hazard and use the 7 step process below to fully evolve a plan for understanding and dealing with the hazard.
The steps in the Process should include 7 Tasks:
1. Describing the Hazard
2. Defining the Pathogen involved and Route of Exposure
3. Outline the Pathogenesis, which is the Causal Mechanism of Disease or Injury to Exposed Persons, with reference to one or two peer reviewed articles.
4. Monitoring of Place and Persons for Potential and Actual harm by the Pathogen
5. Describe relevant Legislation, Codes and Standards which apply to this Pathogen
6. Discuss issues of Compliance based on legislation, codes and ethics
7. Propose Implementation of Elimination or Control of the Pathogen
Use an approach that demonstrates the principle of Exposure and Health Effect. As you consider the Hazard, the first three steps you need to look at are important to show your understanding of the problem. In step 4, you will explore the possible ways to monitor the presence of the Pathogen and possibly monitor the persons exposed. Finally in steps 5 to 7 you will wrap up the issues of Legislation, Compliance, Ethics and Control.
Write a concise report, in response to the question set in Assignment 1. The report should be written as a Consultant might write to a Client, and therefore is technical writing. It should be addressed to the client, and should have a content flow and headings that are appropriate for such a report. The Lecturer will give examples of Technical Writing in lectures and supportive documents posted on the Course Moodle site.
Week 5 Friday (7 Apr 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Assignment 1. Due on Friday 8 April 2015 at 18:00 AEST
Week 6 Friday (21 Apr 2017)
All assignment returned 14 Days after submission
Assignment Word count: 2000 words
Assignment 1 accounts for 30% of the course grade
Assessment Criteria
This assessment will be graded with the following criteria:
- Correctly identifies the Hazard, the Pathogen and route of exposure (10%)
- Explains exposure and effect, and describes the nature of the Pathogen and its effect, on Human Health, with reference to one or two good quality peer reviewed articles (30%)
- Describes the principles and objectives of monitoring the Pathogen in Place and Person (20%)
- Outlines relevant Legislation and Codes (5%)
- Discusses issues of Compliance (5%)
- Describes the plan for Elimination of or Control of the Pathogen (10%)
- Report structure and presentation (20%)
- Analyse actual occupational health cases and demonstrate individual initiative and effective problem solving in occupational health.
- Apply the principles of critical assessment of severity and urgency in occupational health.
- Identify the real problems in occupational health, including indoor and outdoor environments.
- Apply knowledge of paths of exposure and pathogenesis to the principles of monitoring of place and person.
- Describe the nature of illness and injury associated with occupational exposure to certain hazards.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Portfolio
Portfolio Assignment
Details
For the Portfolio Assignment the lecturer will set a larger problem that involves two or more specific Hazards. You will identify the Hazards, and use the 7 Step process to evolve a plan for understanding and dealing with each of the hazards.
The steps in the Process followed for each Hazard should include 7 Tasks:
1. Describing the Hazards
2. Defining the Pathogens involved and Routes of Exposure
3. Outline the Pathogenesis, which is the Causal Mechanism of Disease or Injury to Exposed Persons, with reference to one or two peer reviewed articles for each Pathogen
4. Monitoring of Place and where appropriate, Persons, for Potential and Actual harm by each Pathogen
5. Describe relevant Legislation, Codes and Standards which apply to each Pathogen
6. Discuss issues of Compliance based on Legislation, Codes and Ethics for each Pathogen
7. Propose Implementation of Elimination or Control of each Pathogen
You should use an approach that demonstrates the principle of Exposure and Health Effect. As you consider each Hazard, the first three steps you need to look at are important to show your understanding of the problem facing you for each of the Hazards. In step 4, explore the possible ways to monitor the presence of each of the Pathogens and if possible, monitor the persons exposed. Finally in steps 5 to 7 you should wrap up the issues of Legislation, Compliance, Ethics and Control.
Then write a comprehensive report, in response to the question set in the Portfolio Assignment . The report should be written as a Consultant might write to a Client, and therefore is technical writing. As a report it should be addressed to the client, and should have a content flow, and headings, that are appropriate for such a report. The Lecturer will give examples of Technical Writing in lectures and supportive documents posted on the Course Moodle site prior to the submission date.
Week 10 Friday (19 May 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 12 Friday (2 June 2017)
Portfolio Word count: 3000 - 4000 words
Portfolio accounts for 70% of the course grade
Assessment Criteria:
This assessment will be graded with the following criteria:- Correctly identifies the Hazards, Pathogens and routes of exposure (10%)
- Explains in detail exposure and effect, and describe the nature of Pathogens and their effects, whether Chemical, Physical or Biological on Human Health, with reference to two good quality peer reviewed articles, for each Pathogen (30%)
- Describe the principles and objectives of monitoring each Pathogen in Place and, if possible, Person (20%)
- Outline relevant Legislation, Codes, and Standards (5%)
- Discuss issues of Compliance (5%)
- Describe the plan for Elimination or Control of each Pathogen (10%)
- Report structure and presentation (20%)
- Apply a systems approach to complex problem solving in occupational health. thereby acquiring an ability to extend the reach of managing risk in diverse settings.
- Identify the real problems in occupational health, including indoor and outdoor environments.
- Apply knowledge of paths of exposure and pathogenesis to the principles of monitoring of place and person.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
