Course Title: Manage work health and safety
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2021
Course Code: OHTH5909C
Course Title: Manage work health and safety
School: 174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5357 - Diploma of Remedial Massage
Course Contact: Laura Yeomans
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4289
Course Contact Email: laura.yeomans@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Kesh Bassi
kesh.bassi@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
This unit is clustered 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
Please refer to the Elements of Competency above.
Details of Learning Activities
This course will be a combination of online and face to face delivery. Students are expected to read the class slides prior to all sessions, this then will allow for any questions to be addressed and an online forum to be developed.
• 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
Teaching Schedule
WHS – Infection Control | |
Week |
Class Topics |
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1 On campus |
Introduction to course Roles and responsibilities of employers and employees Hazards within the workplace Work Health and Safety Legislation Industry Codes of practice Duty of care Safety and Emergency signage Hazardous manual tasks Infection control procedures |
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2 Webinar |
Workplace risks |
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3 Webinar |
Follow workplace policies and procedures |
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4 Webinar |
Identifying reports and hazards Preventing transmission Workplace policies and procedures Identifying and reporting incidents and injuries OH&S Laws Hierarchy of control PPE equipment |
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5 On campus |
Meeting reviews and observations |
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6 On campus |
Portfolio feedback and observations |
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7 |
Assessment submissions |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
To be deemed competent you must demonstrate an understanding of all aspects required of the competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure your achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.
Assessment Task 1 - Case Study
Assessment Task 2 - Group project
Assessment Task 3 - Clinic checklist
Assessment Tasks
Assessment 1: Clinic observation checklist - Refer to canvas for due date
To satisfy the requirements for these units of competency, the student must successfully complete this assessment in the Remedial student clinic. The student will be assessed on their ability to identify, monitor, and review infection control prevention and management of work health and safety policy and procedures in accordance with RMIT clinic guidelines.
Assessment 2: Portfolio assignment - refer to Canvas for further details
The student will be assessed on their ability to demonstrate an understanding of infection control prevention and the management of work health and safety.
Students are to complete all the parts of the project and the questions in Section B of this assessment.
Part A: Provide guidance on health hazards
Part B: Identify Health Hazards and determine Risk
Part C: Policies and Procedures
Part D: Incident and accidents
Assessment 3 - Knowledge assessment - Refer to canvas for due date
The purpose of this assessment is for the student to demonstrate their underpinning knowledge in relation to work health and safety and infection control practices.
By the end of this assessment, the student should be able to demonstrate an understanding of:
- Work health and safety practices
- Infection prevention and control frameworks
- Hazard identification and risk control processes
- Consultation practices
- Compliance requirements
- Evaluating and maintaining WHS and infection control
Assessment Matrix
Other Information
Important information regarding Assessment Tasks:
Resubmissions are not automatic and will only be approved at the discretion of the Program Coordinator, after consultation with the teacher and each individual assessment may only be resubmitted once.
All students will be contacted with 7 days by their course coordinator in regards to resubmission completion dates.
Please note an opportunity to repeat clinical placement is not guaranteed and will be at the discretion of the Clinical Coordinator/Program Manager.
EXTENSION OR SPECIAL CONSIDERATION
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 5 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.
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