Courses Handbook 2008

11355 (v.6) Occupational Health and Safety (Industrial Relations) 383


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
Prerequisite(s): 1643 (v.7) Human Biology 133 or any previous version
AND
1644 (v.7) Human Biology 134 or any previous version
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6494 (v.10) Injury Management and Workers' Compensation 281 or any previous version
AND
10009 (v.3) Chemistry 127 or any previous version
AND
10223 (v.2) Chemistry 131 or any previous version
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303855 (v.2) Introduction and Practice of Occupational Health and Safety 283 or any previous version
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304741 (v.2) Physics 115 or any previous version
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310112 (v.1) Safety and Environmental Health Law 265 or any previous version
Syllabus: In this unit students are introduced to the scope, and philosophical and theoretical foundations used in describing and analysing employment relationships. Examines the three main parties involved, namely government, employers and employees, and their interests in occupational health and safety. Processes and changes in establishing working relationships are investigated, along with the implications for occupational health and safety practice in the workplace. Sources and methods for resolving conflict are studied from the perspective of both formal administrative processes and the theory and skills of negotiation.
** 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*: 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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1       Y  
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Open University HK 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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