Risk, management and law
Dr B Hocking
2 hours per week over 14 weeks
Synopsis This subject aims to demonstrate the individual, group and societal responses to occupational and environmental disease and includes risk perception, risk acceptance and risk communication, unions and employer organisations, environmental interest groups, worker's compensation, common law negligence, product safety, occupational health and safety law, environmental protection law, and state, national and international OHS organisations.
Assessment Multiple-choice questions: 50%
* 2000-word assignment:
50%
Prescribed texts
Occupational Health and Safety Act (Vic.)
Environmental Protection Act (Vic.)
Quinlan M and Bohle P Managing occupational health and safety in Australia Macmillan, 1991
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