Postgraduate - UnitMPH5222 - Assessment and control of workplace hazards

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Alfred Hospital Second semester 2014 (Day) Alfred Hospital Second semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr D Glass

Synopsis

How to recognise, evaluate and control hazards in workplaces arising from substances, sound, radiation and micro-organisms. Principles and practice of occupational hygiene including the use of simple instruments, ventilation, personal protective equipment and workplace substances laws. Hygienic standards and their various forms and notations. The difficulties of assessing prior exposures for medico-legal and epidemiological purposes

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

identify and analyse significant patterns of hazards and risks to health from work in Australia;
communicate fluently using appropriate terminology to describe chemical, physical and microbiological hazards;
identify common hazards and apply appropriate techniques for exposure measurement;
using evidence based information, effectively communicate strategies for the identification of occupational hazards and risks and the development of appropriate controls;
implement and evaluate common interventions used to control simple workplace risks; and
identify when further expertise is required to measures and/or control workplace hazards.