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MPH5309

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 24 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Coordinator(s)

Dr David Goddard

Offered

Monash Online

  • Teaching Period 2 2016 (Online)

Synopsis

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.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Analyze and contextualize the human and economic cost and causes of workplace injury and death in Australia.
  2. Identify contemporary OHS data sources, and evaluate and explain their merits and limitations.
  3. Describe and evaluate the theoretical underpinnings of various injury models and their use within OHSMS.
  4. Analyze and contextualize the legal framework for OHS and occupational injury management and its application to OHS practice.
  5. Identify, contextualize and evaluate the fundamental principles of OHS practice including application of risk management programs, occupational rehabilitation, injury management and total worker health programs in complex environments.
  6. Analyze and contextualize the OHS impacts of contemporary work patterns emerging challenges.

Assessment

Online tasks (50%)
Assignment (2,500 words + 1 page proposal) (50%)

Workload requirements

24 hours per week for 6 weeks.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr David Goddard

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Public health

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in course 4529.