Course Title: Follow health, safety and security procedures
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2007
Course Code: OHTH5323C
Course Title: Follow health, safety and security procedures
School: 345T Creative Media
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4112 - Certificate IV in Screen
Course Contact : Adam Lovell
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4976
Course Contact Email:adam.lovell@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 15
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
In this course, students will learn the skills and knowledge required to maintain safe working practices in a range of industry contexts.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
CUFSAF01B Follow health and safety and security issues |
Element: |
Deal with emergency situations |
Performance Criteria: |
· Recognise emergency and potential emergency situations and determine and take required action within scope of individual responsibility |
Element: |
Follow workplace procedures on health, safety and security |
Performance Criteria: |
· Comply with health, safety and security procedures in accordance with organisational policy, relevant legislation, insurance requirements and safety plan where appropriate |
Element: |
Maintain personal safety standards |
Performance Criteria: |
· Use appropriate safety clothing, footwear and personal protection equipment |
Element: |
Provide feedback on health, safety and security |
Performance Criteria: |
· Identify occupational health and safety issues requiring attention |
Learning Outcomes
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Details of Learning Activities
In addition to formal lectures, students will have the chance to critique the hazards of previous students’ productions; to join a tutorial about five major hazard categories, and prepare a portfolio of OH and S documents.
Teaching Schedule
Week 1 - orientation.
Week 2 - OH and S legal framework: acts, regulations, and codes of practice; definition of hazards and risks.
Week 3 - Role of OH and S safety advisers, and safety officers; categories of hazard, case study: manual handling, electricity.
Week 4 - documents in OH and S, including induction, safety plan, incident reports. Case studies: noise.
Week 5 - Categories of controls: engineering, administrative (procedural), PPE> Hierarchy of controls.
Week 6 - Case studies: aviation, and underwater hazards. Hazards to eyes. Review of course.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
References will be supplied in class.
Overview of Assessment
A report listing two hazard/risk situations from past films and videos.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment 1 - Worth 20%. Due week 2. Report on fire hazard in designated RMIT floor (location)
Assessment 2 - Worth 30%. Due week 4. Portfolio of 3+ documents of OH and S from a chosen organisation,
Assessment 3 - Case study from private research. Worth 50%. Your writing (not down loaded). Details of a past real accident of location - stage or TV or film. Please add a sentence on lessons learned from the accident you report.
Assessment Matrix
Not applicable
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