Course Title: Work, Health, Safety & Wellbeing
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Work, Health, Safety & Wellbeing
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Flexible Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
BUSM3122 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
630H Management |
Internet |
JulDec2023 (All) |
BUSM3122 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
630H Management |
Internet |
JulDec2024 (All) |
Course Coordinator: Professor David Fan
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 0255
Course Coordinator Email: david.fan@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Building 80
Course Coordinator Availability: By email
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
This course introduces you to the key concepts and practices related to the management of workplace health, safety and wellbeing. A multidisciplinary approach is taken, which explores the contributions of disciplines including law, sociology, industrial relations and expert technical approaches, to understanding and addressing occupational injury, disease and wellbeing. The course explores contemporary issues and debates in the field and the regulation of workplace health, safety and wellbeing.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
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On successful completion of this course you will be able to:
CLO1: Analyse and apply the contribution of multiple disciplines to the understanding and impact of occupational injury and occupational disease in workplaces and the community.
CLO2: Investigate, apply and evaluate hazard and risk management principles and frameworks.
CLO3 Communicate WHS data and concepts, using written, oral and visual tools, in inclusive and culturally appropriate ways.
CLO4: Evaluate and articulate knowledge of psychosocial and wellbeing issues in the workplace.
CLO5: Analyse and apply the key concepts underpinning contemporary Work, Health and Safety theories, systems and practice within organisational contexts. A new CLO6 is proposed.
CLO6: Apply skills to enhance working in and with teams and groups
Overview of Learning Activities
You will learn through lectures, group discussion to introduce and analyse scenarios and real world applications confronting organizations and other parties in WHSW.
Overview of Learning Resources
Various learning resources are available online through MyRMIT Studies\Canvas. The lecture notes and workshop notes are posted on Canvas.
Resources are also available online through RMIT Library databases and other facilities. Visit the RMIT library website for further details. Assistance is available online via our chat and email services, face to face at our campus libraries or via the telephone on (03) 9925 2020.
Additional resources and/or sources to assist your learning will be identified by your course coordinator and will be made available to you as required during the teaching period.
Overview of Assessment
The assessment tasks, their weighting and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows:
Assessment Task 1 - 40%, Linked CLOs 1,3,4
Assessment Task 2 - 20% Linked CLOs 1,6
Assessment Task 3 - 40%, Linked CLOS 1,2,3,4,5