Course Title: Apply Occupation Health and Safety Procedures

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5148

Course Title: Apply Occupation Health and Safety Procedures

Portfolio: BUS

Nominal Hours: 20.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
OHTH5227C	City Campus	TAFE	650T TAFE Business	Face-to-Face or Internet

Course Contact: Jatinder Pal Warraich

Course Contact Phone: +61-3-99251335

Course Contact Email: jatinder.warraich@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

In this course the students will learn about health and safety issues in the working environment when dealing with computer hardware. This course is co-delivered with Operate Computer Hardware, Connect Hardware Peripherals and Connect Internal Hardware Components which map most of the elements/topics covered by Cisco’s HP IT Essentials-I and CompTIA’s 2003 A+ Core Hardware Exam.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Apply Occupation Health and Safety Procedures ICAITU004C OHTH 5227C
Operate Computer Hardware ICAITU005C COSC 5747C
Connect Hardware Peripherals ICAITS014C COSC5746C

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	ICAITU004C Apply Occupation Health and Safety Procedures
Elements:	Determine Occupational Health and Safety (OH & S) issues relating to immediate work environment
	Document and disseminate Occupational Health and Safety requirements
	Provide basic ergonomic advice

Learning Outcomes

See details under elements of competency.

Overview of Assessment

Assessment may incorporate a variety of methods including technical requirements documentation, homework and in class exercises, on-line tests, practical problem solving exercises and practical tests. Students are advised that they maybe be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.

Final examination is close book on-line test.
More detailed information about RMIT grading will be provided in class.