PHI5309 Occupational health and safety

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.