308217 (v.1) Risk and Safety Management 660


Area: Graduate School of Business
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
** 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. **
 
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: Provision of an overview of risk and the processes for its management, with particular emphasis on safety management. Examination of the 'duty of care' responsibilities in organisations in relation to uncertainty, probability, chance, hazard, risk, danger, crisis and safety, and guidance on the use of this terminology. Identification of processes for the identification of hazards, estimation and treatment of risk, and consideration of their limitations. Consideration of safety management systems, theory of accident causation and organisational accidents, and the contribution of human factors to accident causation.
 
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Field of Education: 080301 Business Management
Funding Cluster: 02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*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
2005 Perth City Campus Trimester 3 Y        
2005 Miri Sarawak Campus Trimester 1 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