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OCHS20030 - Occupational Health, Hygiene and Toxicology

General Information

Unit Synopsis

A range of occupational health hazards in the workplace will be discussed in this unit. Areas covered include identification of occupational hygiene hazards, sampling and analytical techniques for occupational hygiene hazards, fitness for work, health surveillance, concepts of the use of biological monitoring and biological exposure indices, their relationship to workplace occupational exposure standards and the basic concepts of workplace toxicology. Relevant legislative and guidance materials as they relate to occupational health, hygiene and toxicology will be identified to provide students with options for hazard recognition, evaluation and control. All students are required to attend a compulsory residential school at the CQU Rockhampton campus. It is a requirement of this unit to have access to the CQU website and internet.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level Not Applicable
Credit Points 8
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.16666666666667
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

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).

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Residential School Compulsory Residential School
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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2025

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 1 - 2025

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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 8-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 16.666666666667 hours of study per week, making a total of 200 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 10%
2. Written Assessment 30%
3. Group Work 30%
4. Practical Assessment 30%

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

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2014 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 71.43% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 53.85% response rate.

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Resource material is detailed and useful.
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Adapt some of the resource material content to the appropriate areas in the new program.
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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. discuss the concept of wellness and health interventions and its application to the individual and workplace behaviour (Assignment 3)
  2. identify categories of occupational disease and factors that contribute to their occurrence (Assignments 2 and 3)
  3. discuss the principles of occupational toxicology (Assignment 2)
  4. apply knowledge of the biological exposure indices, related concepts and occupational exposure standards to specific situations within the workplace
  5. identify occupational hygiene hazards and describe their mechanism of action in selected workplaces (Assignments 2 and 3)
  6. identify techniques for monitoring occupational hygiene hazards in the workplace (Assignments 2 and 3)
  7. select and describe controls to minimise risk associated with occupational hygiene hazards that are based on the hierarchy of control (Assignments 2 and 3)

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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