Weekly Distribution:
- Lecture: 3 hours
- Seminar: 1 hour
Methods will include case studies, lectures, classroom discussion, seminars, and reading assignments.
1. Occupational Health and Safety Legislative Framework, British Columbia occupational health and safety regulation.
2. Hazard Recognition, Unsafe Work Refusal Process, Risk Assessment and Control.
3. Physical Agents, Biological and Chemical Agents, and Psychosocial Hazards.
4. Human psychology and physiology.
5. Workplace Violence, Bullying, Aggression, and Harassment.
6. Workplace health and safety training, strategic motivation programs and safety management systems (including tracking and reporting).
7. Emergency Planning, workplace inspections, health and safety meetings, and fire drills.
8. Incident investigation, first aid requirements, and functional assessments.
9. Disability management, workplace accommodation and gradual return to work programs.
10. Workplace Wellness: Work-Family and Health Promotions Programs
11. Special topics: alcohol, smoking, drug testing, health screening, etc.
After completing this course a student will be able to:
1. Examine the moral, legal and ethical considerations of health and safety management.
2. Investigate the social and economic impacts of real world accidents.
3. Examine and categorize the safety related tasks, duties and obligations of human resource professionals.
4. Explain how to access and analyze current Safety Statistics Reports.
5. Create industry specific safety policies including proactive workplace policies to address workplace violence, aggression, and violence.
6. Calculate injury frequency and severity rates.
7. Create health and safety plans, forms and/or reports for incident investigation, employer incident reporting, functional assessment, risk assessment, workplace inspection, health and safety meeting minutes, and emergency evacuation.
8. Analyze Occupational Safety Regulations, and the role of WorkSafe BC (including the incorporation of important legislation such as Bill C-45).
9. Examine basic human psychology and physiology, and the impact of chemical and biological agents on human physiology.
10. Examine the impact of psychosocial hazards on human psychology and physiology.
11. Examine the impact of aggression, violence and harassment on human psychology and physiology.
12. Identify training options, certification options, and required training types and timing including "first aid attendant" workplace requirements.
13. Examine management information system tracking and reporting requirements.
14. Examine health and safety committee requirements, and conduct a "workplace inspection and health and safety meeting."
15. Examine employer requirements to accommodate injured employees and be able to design a "graduated return to work program."
| Term Project(s) | 15-25% |
| Term Tests and/or Quizzes | 20-25% |
| Final Examination | 20-25% |
| Cases, Assignments and/or Presentations | 20-25% |
| Participation | 0-10% |
| Total | 100% |
Notes
1. At least 50% of the total coursework must be individual work.
2. To pass the course, students must achieve a cumulative grade of 50% in all non-group assessments as well as 50% overall in the course. In other words, students must have achieved at least 50% on their cumulative individual assessments in order to be eligible to earn marks from group work.
3. Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
Required:
Kelloway, K., Gatien, B., & Francis, L. Management of Occupational Health and Safety, Nelson, latest edition.
Or any alternative textbook that has been approved by the Business department.
Custom Course Pack – to be developed by department
Courses listed here must be completed either prior to or simultaneously with this course:
- No corequisite courses
Courses listed here are equivalent to this course and cannot be taken for further credit:
- No equivalency courses