This course is not currently offered, please contact the school or faculty of your program.

Course description

This course provides an overview of occupational health and safety as it relates to the Australian working environment. The course will commence with an overview of the legal framework for OHS and continue on to explore some of the key contemporary issues in OHS including: work-related illness and disease, hazardous substances, workplace violence and harassment, plant and machine guarding, working at heights, and OHS in emerging industries. This course had the previous code of HMST6617 which can be viewed in the archived area within the Course and Program site http://www.uq.edu.au/study/archive/index.html