Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

11102 (v.7) Health, Safety and Hygiene 282


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. **
 

Tutorial:

1 x 4 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

This unit is an introductory unit to occupational hygiene area with aim to equip students with theoretical and practical knowledge of various occupational hygiene techniques based on current research and recent advances in this area. The topics covered include hazards in the work environment, occupational health, toxicology and epidemiology, workplace exposure standards, dusts and articulates, metals, gases and vapours, physical hazards in the work environment, noise and vibration, thermal environment and pressure, radiation (ionising and non-ionising), chemical hazards, biological hazards, controls for workplace health hazards and sources and information.
 
** 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

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

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
2006 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y     Y  
2006 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2006 BPI Intern'l Group S'pore Trimester 1A 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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