Course Title: Manage work health and safety

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2016

Course Code: OHTH5909C

Course Title: Manage work health and safety

School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences

Campus: City Campus

Program: C5357 - Diploma of Remedial Massage

Course Contact: Joshua Davies

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4333

Course Contact Email: joshua.davies@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

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

This unit is co-delivered with HLTINF004/NURS5360 Manage the prevention and control of infection

Course Description

         

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish, maintain and evaluate work health and safety (WHS) policies, procedures and programs in the relevant work area, according to WHS legislative requirements.

This unit applies to workers who have responsibility for WHS as part of their role, including workers with obligations under WHS legislation, persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs), or their officers (as defined by relevant legislation).


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

HLTWHS004 Manage work health and safety

Element:

1. Establish work health and safety practices

Performance Criteria:

 

1.1       Access and interpret legislation, regulations, code of conduct and workplace policies and procedures for WHS

1.2       Develop procedures for ongoing hazard             identification, and assessment and control of             associated risks

1.3       Ensure risk controls and hazard-specific             procedures are consistent with the hierarchy of             control and are monitored to support compliance             with legislative and regulatory requirements

1.4       Identify requirements for expert WHS advice, and      request this advice as required

 

 

Element:

2. Facilitate consultation, cooperation and communication

Performance Criteria:

2.1       Develop and provide consultative WHS activities to provide advice in relation to work health and safety issues

2.2       Monitor processes for ensuring that workers have an opportunity to contribute feedback on health and safety issues

2.3       Document outcomes of consultation and communicate to workers

2.4       Develop and implement processes to ensure that             responsibilities and duties are documented and             accountability processes are in place

2.5       Implement and monitor training programs to ensure identified WHS training requirements are addressed, including induction process

 

 

Element:

3. Monitor compliance with risk control processes

Performance Criteria:

3.1       Develop WHS record-keeping policies and             procedures and provide information to workers

3.2       Monitor hazard, incident and injury reporting processes to meet legislative requirements and to inform future prevention strategies

3.3       Evaluate WHS record-keeping policies and procedures for compliance with legislative requirements

 

Element:

4. Evaluate and maintain WHS

Performance Criteria:

4.1       Determine WHS priorities in consultation with work group

4.2       Develop a WHS action plan taking account of priorities and training needs

4.3       Identify potential barriers to improvement

4.4       Establish processes to monitor achievement against the plan and update plans as required


Learning Outcomes



Details of Learning Activities

 

All class learning materials, notes and other key learning resources can be accessed via myRMIT

at www.rmit.edu.au/learninghub.

A combination of activities will support student’s learning in this course, such as:

• Face-to-face &/or online lectures to cover theoretical and practical concepts for each topic in

the course

• Students will learn to apply their skills and knowledge to work integrated learning (WIL) in the

student & clinical practice environment, during simulations and classroom based learning

• Work experience &/or placements observation of performance in the workplace will be a

valuable part of your learning experience

• Tutorial activities (individually and in teams) to discuss, debate, critique and consolidate your

ideas and extend your understanding around key concepts within specific topics

• Online discussions and activities to support and collaborate with other students in your course

and debate and discuss ideas

• Utilise and develop critical research and cognitive skills to find credible sources of health

information

• Self-directed study time (eg. readings or activities around theory) to enhance and strengthen

your knowledge and understanding of theoretical concepts

• To further facilitate learning students are strongly encouraged to use a range of communication

tools between themselves and their course instructor as well as between themselves and fellow

students by using the online learning platform

• It is strongly recommended that students partner up with fellow students in order to practice

assessment, treatment and palpation techniques

 


Teaching Schedule

Manage Workplace Health and Safety                                      HLTWHS004/OHTH5909C

Manage the Control and Prevention of Infection                  HLTINF004/NURS5360C

RMIT Wk

Date

Class & Activities

7

8/2/16

Looking at legislation, regulation and codes of practice

8

15/2/16

Hazard identification: WHS and infection control

9

22/2/16

Hierarchy of control and its application to WHS and Infection control

10

29/2/16

Where to start with processes and procedures

11

7/3/16

Ways of measuring effectiveness

 

 


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources


Overview of Assessment

This unit is part of an integrated program.
You must demonstrate Performance and Knowledge Evidence of the unit in order to be deemed competent.
Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks.
You may be assessed by:
• Oral or written questioning
• Oral presentations
• Assignments and projects
• Direct observation of actual work practice
• Presentation of a portfolio of evidence which may comprise documents, and/or photographs and/or video and/or audio files
• Work-based activities
• Third-party feedback from a work supervisor/employer
Primary assessment involves on-going practical and applied assessment in a clinical workplace or simulated environment such as a supervised student clinic or at a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) placement activity.
 
Competency based training requires you to be in attendance in order for assessment to be undertaken.
 
Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or online discussions, through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.
 
All Assessment tasks should be performed or submitted by their due dates.
If due to illness or other unforeseen circumstance, you are unable to attend on the due date of an assessment (e.g. test, examination, oral, etc.) OR you do attend, but your performance has been affected, you may submit an APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL CONSIDERATION within 2 working days of the due date. If Special Consideration is granted, you will be given the opportunity to complete/repeat the assessment task at a later date. For advice on this application please visit www.rmit.edu.au/students/specialconsideration  or speak to your Program Coordinator.
If due to illness or other unforeseen circumstance, you are unable to submit by the due date  (e.g. assignment, report, project etc.):
•         you may submit an APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF ASSESSABLE WORK for an extension of time of up to seven (7) calendar days or less. This must be lodged with the Program Coordinator 1 working day before the original due date. If granted, you will have the opportunity to submit up to 7 days later than the original due date. For advice on this application please visit www.rmit.edu.au/students/assessment/extension  or speak to your Program Coordinator.
Or:
•         you may submit an APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL CONSIDERATION within 2 working days of the due date. If Special Consideration is granted, you will be given the opportunity to submit the assessment task more than 7 days after the original due date. For advice on this application please visit www.rmit.edu.au/students/specialconsideration  or speak to your Program Coordinator.
 
You are expected to prepare all assignments and other written work in a professional manner. More information on general academic study and writing skills can be found on the “Learning Lab” http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/learninglab/. All work submitted for assessment must be submitted electronically unless otherwise advised.
 
Students must keep a copy of all submitted assessments including electronic copies.
Harvard style is used for all referencing and for bibliography.
 RMIT University has a strict policy on academic integrity and plagiarism and. Please refer to the website for more information on this policy. www.rmit.edu.au/students/academic-integrity
 If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Disability Liaison Unit if you would like to find out more.
 Your rights and responsibilities as a student can be found at http://www1.rmit.edu.au/students/rights-and-responsibilities 
This course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies and procedures which are described and referenced at www.rmit.edu.au/students/assessment
 Credit transfer and RPL
Credit transfer is available to students who have already completed the same or similar courses. Recognition of prior learning is available to students who have relevant prior skills or experience. Please refer to http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=8u7jborsx9dy 
 
Assessment Tasks
The skills to be assessed within this unit replicate real work skills within the industry.
 
1. Clinic skills checklist  
  
2. Workbook


 Assessment Matrix
The assessment mapping demonstrates alignment of assessment tasks with the relevant unit of competency and with the performance evidence, knowledge evidence and assessment conditions for each unit.

 

ASSESSMENT METHODS/TYPES OF EVIDENCE:

 

 

Interview/ Verbal Questioning

Self-Reflections

Assignment/ Project

Case Study or Role Play

Third Party Verification

Workplace Performance

Research or Report

Portfolio of Evidence

Written Tasks

 

 

 

 

 

NATIONAL UNIT CODE : HLTWHS004

NATIONAL UNIT NAME :Manage work health and Safety (release 2)

RMIT CODE: OHTH5909C

Co-Delivered with: HLTINF004/NURS5360 Manage the control of infection

Elements

Performance Criteria

Related Assessment Tasks

Assessment Method/

Types of Evidence  

1.       Establish work health and safety practices

1.1    Access and interpret legislation, regulations, code of conduct and workplace policies and procedures for WHS

Workbook

Assignment/Project

1.2    Develop procedures for ongoing hazard identification, and assessment and control of associated risks

Workbook

Assignment/Project

1.3    Ensure risk controls and hazard-specific procedures are consistent with the hierarchy of control and are monitored to support compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements

Workbook


Assessment Tasks

 

Task 1 Due date: 4/3/16

  • Case study responses (researched at home and discussed in class) for3 x Workplace Health and Safety
  •                                
  • 3 x Infection Control and
  • Task 2a Due date: 10/3/16Task 2b Due date: 18/3/16Task 2c Due date 18/3/2016
  • Review and finalisation of policy to be implemented for both Workplace Health and safety and Infection Control. These two documents are to be uploaded to blackboard.
  • You will implement control measures including training of colleagues in newly proposed procedures (developed by you) for infection control and work health and safety. This will be marked via a Skills Observation Log in clinic.
  • Group project – Identify a risk or hazard in the student clinic for Workplace Health and Safety and Infection control. Conduct a risk assessment for each and develop control measures to manage and reform the workplace around these two workplace risks. These two documents are to be uploaded to blackboard.

 


Assessment Matrix

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