UnitLevel 5Postgraduate

PHI5309 Occupational health and safety

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

PHI5309 Occupational health and safety is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. It isn't offered in 2024. It has no prerequisites.

Credit points
6
Offered in 2024
Not offered
Assessment
Exam 20%
and 3 other tasks

The 2027 handbook has no page for PHI5309. This is its 2024 entry, the latest one.

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Requisites

Before PHI5309

Prohibitions

You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.

After PHI5309

No unit lists PHI5309 as a prerequisite in the 2024 handbook.

Enrolment rules

Must be enrolled in a postgraduate course at Monash Indonesia.

Equivalent units

The same content under another code. Only one of them counts.

Overview

This unit will cover the impacts and human cost of occupational disease and injury, occupational health and safety law, frameworks for primary prevention, workers' compensation systems, occupational rehabilitation, case studies highlighting historical achievements and challenges, international and national occupational health and safety (OHS) organizations.

Offerings in 2024

The 2024 handbook lists no offerings for PHI5309.

Assessment

  • Quiz
    20%
  • Infographic (1 page, including graphics)
    20%
  • Open book exam (1 hour)
    20%
  • Workplace Report (2400 words)
    40%

Learning outcomes

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

  1. 1

    Analyse the human and economic cost and causes of workplace injury and death in Australia;

  2. 2

    Critically appraise contemporary Work Health and Safety (WHS) data sources;

  3. 3

    Describe the theoretical underpinnings of various injury models and their use within Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems;

  4. 4

    Contextualise the legal framework applying to the workplace;

  5. 5

    Communicate the fundamental principles of WHS practice;

  6. 6

    Analyse the WHS impacts of contemporary and changing work patterns and new and emerging challenges.

Workload and teaching

  • Teaching approachOnline learning

4 hours per week including directed and self-directed learning (scheduled classes, prescribed activities and independent work).

For full details of the teaching approach to this unit, please refer to Moodle.

Learning resources

Required resources

See Moodle for details about required resources.

Contacts

Chief Examiners
Professor Dragan Ilic

Common questions

What are the prerequisites for PHI5309?

PHI5309 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.

When is PHI5309 offered?

PHI5309 has no offerings listed in the 2024 handbook.

Does PHI5309 have an exam?

Yes. The exam is worth 20% of the final mark, alongside 3 other tasks.

More details

Credit points
6
Level
5
Study level
Postgraduate
Faculty
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational unit
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Type
Coursework
EFTSL
0.125
Student contribution
SCA Band 2
Study abroad
Available
Handbook years
20232024