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. Conducting 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	Central External
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1		Y
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 2		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