SAFE09021 2019 Risk, Management and Technical Safety

Analyse management theory and select appropriate management strategies for use in current OSH work environments.

Integrate OHS knowledge, principles, and theories to evaluate and identify organisations' OSH requirements.

Evaluate workplace hazards, assess occupational risks, and propose appropriate risk control strategies.

Devise solutions to prescribed OHS problems implementation

Apply cognitive ergonomic principles to facilitate the communication of effective planning, decision making, and change management within an organisation.

Apply ergonomic design principles for safe place of work, safe systems of work, and safe machinery tools and equipment in accordance with Irish OHS Legal requirements.

Evaluate factors and characteristics within the organisation which affect occupational loss.

The students will be exposed to a blend of learning activities e.g. online lectures (via adobe connect or similar), independent learning and directed learning. This approach is expected to address various student learning needs. Moodle will be used to upload educational material (e.g. powerpoint presentations, recordings of online lectures and supplementary reading material) and a means of assessment (e.g. quizzes, uploading assignments and journals). The online delivery will be blended with workshops to bring the learners together to facilitate group learning.

Regular formative assessments may be undertaken via Moodle, and assignments delivered as per module requirements. Students may be assessed individually or in group environments with a strong emphasis on continual improvement and skill building.  Students will work on a project to integrate their knowledge in a workplace setting.  They will also produce a video submission to communicate their learning to a prescribed audience.

Repeat assessment, where relevant, will involve assignment and/or examination that provides evidence that the student has met the subject and topic learning outcomes to the required standard.

Analyse management theory and select appropriate management strategies for use in current OSH work environments.

• The changing nature of business theories and their evolving relationship with the changing world of OSH
• Reflection on OSH in practice and how effective managers reflect on their own practice.

Integrate OHS knowledge, principles, and theories to evaluate and identify organisations’ OSH requirements

• Fire, Machinery and Electrical safety principles and theories along with emergency planning requirements
• Risk matrices,hierarchy of controls, general principles of prevention

Evaluate hazards, assess occupational risks, and propose appropriate risk control strategies.

• Inspection, audits, documents
• Different work environments = different hazard types & different risks, different injuries/illnesses
• Construction methods and associated hazards

Devise solutions to prescribed OHS problems implementation

• Attitude towards safety in the work environment and plans to overcome adversities
• Monitoring systems

Communicate effective planning, decision making, and change management within an organisation.

• Effective planning, decision making and resource management through information and knowledge dissemination
• Looking at resistance to change and how to overcome barriers through effective communication methods
• Effective communication strategies and how to communication to a wide variety of audience on a range of topics

Design safe systems of work in accordance with Irish OHS Legal requirements and

• Legal requirements for safe systems
• Application of safe systems of work to an organisation
• Safe systems in a variety of prescribed workplace settings

Evaluate factors and characteristics within the organisation which affect occupational loss.

• Management strategies and organisational behaviour
• Safety culture and its influences on an organisation
• Loss and its effect on an organisation