OHSE Management Systems
PostgraduateACU-OHSE6022023
Course information for 2023 intake
Learn how to plan, develop and implement an OHSE management system. See how to use the system to manage risk, educate users and investigate accidents.
Highlight the methods you can use to encourage safer human behaviour in an organisation.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
OHSE Management Systems
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Appraise principles of causation in workplace incidents through the application of appropriate OHSE models
- Assess an organisation’s OHSE management system against applicable legislation and standards, nationally and globally, and make recommendations for improvement
- Propose and justify changes in safety leadership and culture practice to organisation stakeholders based on a critical review of how safety leadership and safety culture is impacting OHSE management systems and the common good
- Apply OHSE practice skills of peer collaboration and communication to best manage responses to OHSE incidents and effectively communicate this to various stakeholders
- Apply the process of critical reflection to professional judgements made when responding to OHSE incidents
- Introduction to Systematic OHSE Management
- Accident Causation
- Introduction to Systematic OHSE Management and its impact on the common good.
- Incident Causation
- Incident Response and Investigation
- OHSE Management Systems I
- OHSE Management Systems II
- Contractor Safety Management Systems
- Safety and the Supply Chain
- Organisational Culture and Control for OHSE
- OHSE Leadership
- Resilience Engineering, Safety II and Safety Differently
- The place of safety management systems – current thinking, future trends, and controversies
This Unit employs a learning and teaching strategy that combines active learning (engaging with online lecture videos, reading, writing and case studies to analyse, synthesise and problem solve) and peer learning methods (engaging with peers and the lecturer via online tools to collaborate, query and elaborate). Live online classrooms will be offered at regular intervals throughout the teaching period to allow students synchronous access to their lecturer and peers at defined times. Use of applied case studies and scenarios with reference to legislation and standards as well as national and international contexts are used to facilitate applied action learning.
Three assessment items are required in this unit, all of which are based on a case simulation that will unfold during the teaching period. To pass this unit, students are required to achieve an overall mark of at least 50% and must make an attempt at all three assessment items. The assessment tasks for this unit are designed for students to demonstrate their achievement of each learning outcome.
- Business Report (30%)
- Board Report (35%)
- Video of Board Presentation (35%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
ACU-OHS602 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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