PUP415 Occupational Health
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| Unit code: | PUP415 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,236 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PUP415 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Adem Sav | adem.sav@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Although the association between health and occupation has been recognised for centuries, the extent of the impact of work on health and health on work has not been addressed adequately. As approximately one third of a person's life is spent at work, it is not surprising to note that occupation-linked diseases, injuries, and deaths are receiving greater attention. It is no longer accepted that death, life-shortening, and disablement are an acceptable risk to be faced by working people. This unit focuses on the current and emerging agents in the workplace capable of adversely affecting the health of workers, as well as human response to toxic and imperilling environments. Occupational Health covers identification, prevention and management of risks to health in the workplace, the disease process, occupational rehabilitation and health & wellbeing surveillance, psychosocial health, and management in the workplace.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify, understand, and reflect on occupational health hazards
- Name dominant occupational diseases, including their origin and classification, and describe their causation, pathogenesis, diagnosis, management and prevention
- Describe and apply the principles of occupational health to wellbeing and occupational rehabilitation
- Understand and describe social determinants of health
- Identify, assess and document potential novel occupational health hazards.
Content
Major topics include: principles of occupational health; exposure to physical, chemical, biological and psychological hazards at work; classification of occupational diseases; pathogenesis of occupational disease; common occupational diseases: musculoskeletal disorders, occupational cancer, occupational infectious diseases, occupational respiratory diseases, occupational skin diseases; psycho-social health issues and social determinants of health; health surveillance and management in the workplace; occupational rehabilitation; health & wellbeing.
Learning Approaches
The unit is delivered fortnightly in lecture mode. The lectures are recorded on the Learning Management System (LMS) for online students. An online tutorial will be offered as advised on LMS. Student groups and an online forum will allow peer exchange. Online self-assessment items will be made available on LMS. The unit helps build professional identity and ability through engagement with industry and professional contexts. It also employs relevant mindsets to adapt, innovate and be enterprising in a disrupted and changing world of work. The unit helps engage you in discussions, debates, role plays, and case scenarios that allow you to directly experience, examine, and critically reflect on personal and professional cultural perspectives.
You will have access to various resources, including the Student Success Group and Library, and group and individual consultations are available to support learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessment will be spaced throughout the semester to provide the opportunity for feedback on learning at key points. Students will be provided with feedback on their submissions. In addition to the feedback provided in response to each of the assessment items, further feedback will occur in online/class discussions.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment items are designed to measure students' attainment of the learning outcomes stated above. The assessment items are designed to encourage learning and enable students to apply concepts and principles to real world settings.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Analytical Report
As an Occupational Health professional, this assessment item requires you to research and reflect on a specific emerging occupational hazard. You will prepare an analytical report on this hazard, using an extensive range of publications, including peer-reviewed literature. This report will be presented to senior management to inform control interventions around the hazard.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: End of Semester Examination
You will undertake an end-of-semester exam covering content from week 1 to week 13, including lectures/tutorials and other reading materials.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Aw TC, Gardiner K, Harrington JM. Pocket Consultant. Occupational Health.5th ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing; 2007.
Other
Access to a webcam and headsets will benefit student participation in web conferences.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks in this unit except for those associated with substantial computer-based work. Students should ensure that they take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work.
A headset and microphone combo are recommended when participating in online tutorials.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PU65 Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
- Apply advanced theoretical and technical knowledge and skills to current and emerging issues and opportunities in occupational health and safety promotion and management.
Relates to: Analytical Report, End of Semester Examination - Apply critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making and technical skills and incorporate diverse perspectives to evaluate and generate sustainable solutions to complex problems in occupational health and safety.
Relates to: Analytical Report, End of Semester Examination - Interpret and tailor written and oral communication styles and strategies to inform diverse audiences about complex knowledge and ideas in occupational health and safety.
Relates to: Analytical Report - Work independently or within teams with integrity, ethicality, objectivity and impartiality to plan, manage and complete projects and disseminate knowledge within a culturally safe and socially inclusive environment.
Relates to: Analytical Report
PU80 Master of Health, Safety and Environment
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of an advanced body of theoretical and practical knowledge and emerging challenges within the fields of occupational and environmental health/management
Relates to: Analytical Report, End of Semester Examination - Demonstrate advanced skills and abilities to describe, appraise and apply the major tools and systems of OHS and EH practice and research to identify and manage complex problems
Relates to: Analytical Report, End of Semester Examination - Integrate and synthesise complex knowledge and apply critical and reflective thinking to advance the discipline’s body of research.
Relates to: Analytical Report, End of Semester Examination - Work independently and in teams to interpret and communicate complex scientific, legal and psychosocial data and present it in a format that is easy to understand
Relates to: Analytical Report - Enact and apply ethical, culturally safe, socially inclusive principles with self, people, and organisations in diverse contexts.
Relates to: Analytical Report
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | PUP415 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
Although the association between health and occupation has been recognised for centuries, the extent of the impact of work on health and health on work has not been addressed adequately. As approximately one third of a person's life is spent at work, it is not surprising to note that occupation-linked diseases, injuries, and deaths are receiving greater attention. It is no longer accepted that death, life-shortening, and disablement are an acceptable risk to be faced by working people. This unit focuses on the current and emerging agents in the workplace capable of adversely affecting the health of workers, as well as human response to toxic and imperilling environments. Occupational Health covers identification, prevention and management of risks to health in the workplace, the disease process, occupational rehabilitation and health & wellbeing surveillance, psychosocial health, and management in the workplace.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify, understand, and reflect on occupational health hazards
- Name dominant occupational diseases, including their origin and classification, and describe their causation, pathogenesis, diagnosis, management and prevention
- Describe and apply the principles of occupational health to wellbeing and occupational rehabilitation
- Understand and describe social determinants of health
- Identify, assess and document potential novel occupational health hazards.
Content
Major topics include: principles of occupational health; exposure to physical, chemical, biological and psychological hazards at work; classification of occupational diseases; pathogenesis of occupational disease; common occupational diseases: musculoskeletal disorders, occupational cancer, occupational infectious diseases, occupational respiratory diseases, occupational skin diseases; psycho-social health issues and social determinants of health; health surveillance and management in the workplace; occupational rehabilitation; health & wellbeing.
Learning Approaches
The unit is delivered fortnightly in lecture mode. The lectures are recorded on the Learning Management System (LMS) for online students. An online tutorial will be offered as advised on LMS. Student groups and an online forum will allow peer exchange. Online self-assessment items will be made available on LMS. The unit helps build professional identity and ability through engagement with industry and professional contexts. It also employs relevant mindsets to adapt, innovate and be enterprising in a disrupted and changing world of work. The unit helps engage you in discussions, debates, role plays, and case scenarios that allow you to directly experience, examine, and critically reflect on personal and professional cultural perspectives.
You will have access to various resources, including the Student Success Group and Library, and group and individual consultations are available to support learning.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Assessment will be spaced throughout the semester to provide the opportunity for feedback on learning at key points. Students will be provided with feedback on their submissions. In addition to the feedback provided in response to each of the assessment items, further feedback will occur in online/class discussions.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment items are designed to measure students' attainment of the learning outcomes stated above. The assessment items are designed to encourage learning and enable students to apply concepts and principles to real world settings.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Analytical Report
As an Occupational Health professional, this assessment item requires you to research and reflect on a specific emerging occupational hazard. You will prepare an analytical report on this hazard, using an extensive range of publications, including peer-reviewed literature. This report will be presented to senior management to inform control interventions around the hazard.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: End of Semester Examination
You will undertake an end-of-semester exam covering content from week 1 to week 13, including lectures/tutorials and other reading materials.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Aw TC, Gardiner K, Harrington JM. Pocket Consultant. Occupational Health.5th ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing; 2007.
Other
Access to a webcam and headsets will benefit student participation in web conferences.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks in this unit except for those associated with substantial computer-based work. Students should ensure that they take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work.
A headset and microphone combo are recommended when participating in online tutorials.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PU65 Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
- Apply advanced theoretical and technical knowledge and skills to current and emerging issues and opportunities in occupational health and safety promotion and management.
Relates to: Analytical Report, End of Semester Examination - Apply critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, decision-making and technical skills and incorporate diverse perspectives to evaluate and generate sustainable solutions to complex problems in occupational health and safety.
Relates to: Analytical Report, End of Semester Examination - Interpret and tailor written and oral communication styles and strategies to inform diverse audiences about complex knowledge and ideas in occupational health and safety.
Relates to: Analytical Report - Work independently or within teams with integrity, ethicality, objectivity and impartiality to plan, manage and complete projects and disseminate knowledge within a culturally safe and socially inclusive environment.
Relates to: Analytical Report
PU80 Master of Health, Safety and Environment
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of an advanced body of theoretical and practical knowledge and emerging challenges within the fields of occupational and environmental health/management
Relates to: Analytical Report, End of Semester Examination - Demonstrate advanced skills and abilities to describe, appraise and apply the major tools and systems of OHS and EH practice and research to identify and manage complex problems
Relates to: Analytical Report, End of Semester Examination - Integrate and synthesise complex knowledge and apply critical and reflective thinking to advance the discipline’s body of research.
Relates to: Analytical Report, End of Semester Examination - Work independently and in teams to interpret and communicate complex scientific, legal and psychosocial data and present it in a format that is easy to understand
Relates to: Analytical Report - Enact and apply ethical, culturally safe, socially inclusive principles with self, people, and organisations in diverse contexts.
Relates to: Analytical Report