SLE720 - Risk Assessment and Control

Unit details

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Enrolment modes:

(Online, X)

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Previously coded as:

SBH715

Unit chair:

T Thornton

Prerequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

SBH732, SQE722, SEV710

Contact hours:

Please refer to the Unit Guide for any details regarding the contact hours

Note:

This unit is a wholly online unit; there will be no face to face teaching.
Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications.

Content

This unit is to be delivered in a modular approach.  Students will complete a common core that provides students with an understanding of risk assessment and management principles.  Following this common core, students will, based on their enrolments select one of the following modules: environment and occupational hygiene.

 

Students will discuss selection of the module with the course coordinator.

 

Environment

This module provides a combination of theory and practical case studies, designed to provide students with the understanding and hands-on experience necessary to identify and address risks to healthy environments. This module includes: Case studies of urban, industrial, agricultural and/or natural environments at risk; the role of techniques such as indices of environmental health, epidemiology, toxicology and statistics in evaluating environmental and health concerns - data analysis and interpretation - the limitations associated with the various risk assessment techniques; approaches to risk management through policy, legislation, planning and management; risk management principles and planning; appropriate risk avoidance and minimisation for the case studies utilised; integration of risk management with environmental management principles.

 

This module is designed to enable environmental objectives to be identified and implemented within a broad range of industry sectors in line with ecological sustainability principles. Tools such as life cycle analysis and risk assessment, used to measure environmental performance will be described and opportunity provided to utilise these in the development of a site specific environmental management system. Systems that assist organisations meet environmental management requirements that are used internationally and within Australia will be examined as will the potential to link in with other management systems commonly used within organisations.

 

Occupational hygiene

This module uses a simulated (multimedia) workplace to provide experience of conducting a walk through survey, undertaking a risk assessment, communicating the results, designing an exposure monitoring exercise, and designing a control strategy including engineering and non-engineering controls.

 

Engineering

This module will enable students to understand risk issues associated with enterprises, understand the links between the environment and economics, understand how innovation and sustainable development may impact on each other, apply the principles of sustainable development within an enterprise, and recognise the benefits, and the costs, associated with risk management and sustainable development. The topics addressed include risk management, ecologically sustainable development, green design, economics and sustainability, and population and sustainability.

Assessment

Four online assignments (25% each) 100%

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*Student Contribution Rate**Student Contribution Rate***Fee rate - Domestic Students Fee rate - International students
$1006$1006$1006$2355$2779

* Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2010
** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2009
*** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2008
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.