Course Title: Participate in laboratory/field workplace safety

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2012

Course Code: OHTH5123C

Course Title: Participate in laboratory/field workplace safety

School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences

Campus: City Campus

Program: C3209 - Certificate III in Science

Course Contact: Judith McCann

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99258366

Course Contact Email: judith.mccann@rmit.edu.au

Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Christine Andrews

christine.andrews@rmit.edu.au

Nominal Hours: 40

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.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

This unit of competency covers the ability to apply enterprise OHS policies and procedures dealing with the identification and control of hazards, working safely at all times, emergency response and contributing to the maintenance of workplace safety.

National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:	PMLOHS302A Participate in laboratory/field workplace safety
Element:	1. Identify, control and report OHS and environmental hazards 2. Conduct work safely  3. Follow incident and emergency response procedures 4. Contribute to OHS in the workplace
Performance Criteria:	Assessment Criteria 1.1 List anatomical features of major components for the selected body systems 1.2 Outline the physiological functions of the selected body systems Assessment Criteria 2.1 List symptoms of diseases specific to selected body systems 2.1 Identify current treatments of a specific disease affecting one of the selected body systems 2.2 Identify the changes which have occurred in healthy tissue/organs which have resulted in selected diseases

Learning Outcomes

Details of Learning Activities

Tutorials, on-line worksheets, group activities, class discussions

Teaching Schedule

 
 

Week	Date(Tues)	Topic/Activities/Assessments
1	17/4/12	OHS laws - Introduction
2	24/4/12	NO CLASS DUE -Assignment 1
3	1/5/12	MSDS/Chemical storage Due-Assignment 2
4	8/5/12	PPE/Biohazards/PC2 Lab
5	15/5/12	Emergency procedures Due -Assignment 3
6	22/5/11	NO CLASS Due -Assignment 4 & 5
7	29/5/12	First aid
8	5/6/12	Test
9	12/6/12	Safety audit Due -Assignment 6

 

Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

References

Other Resources

Overview of Assessment

The student must demonstrate an understanding of all learning outcomes in order to achieve competence.  Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each learning outcome in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks. Students will be assessed by written assignments and an open book exam

Assessment Tasks

Assignment 70 %
Test 30 %
A pass in both assessments tasks must be achieved
 

Assessment Matrix

Other Information

The 40 hours allowed for this unit are allocated as follows

● Class theory -8 hours
● Practical Activities - 2 hours
● Research work / report completion-28hours
● Theory Test - 2 hour
 

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