Courses Handbook 2009

11519 (v.4) Occupational Hygiene and Chemical Safety 596


Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Individual Study: 1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Theoretical and practical understanding of the recognition, evaluation and management of occupational hygiene and related safety hazards. Workplace contaminants and stressors and their evaluation: gases and vapours, dusts, heat and noise. Preliminary survey, selection of instruments and analytical methods. A field survey: interpretation and use of results. Instrumentation and techniques. Application of monitoring. Control strategies. Statistics, material safety data sheets and strategy of survey design.Provision of information to meet legislative requirements.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 061301 Occupational Health and Safety
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 2       Y  
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 2   Y      
2009 Open University HK Trimester 1A Y        
2009 Open University HK Trimester 2A Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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