Workplace Health and Safety

Subject LAWS70053 (2011)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2011.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 7 (Graduate/Postgraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2011:

June, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable


Timetable can be viewed here. For information about these dates, click here.
Time Commitment: Contact Hours: The total class time is between 24 and 26 hours.
Total Time Commitment: Not available
Prerequisites: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Corequisites: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Recommended Background Knowledge: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Non Allowed Subjects: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Core Participation Requirements: Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.

Coordinator

Mr Peter Rozen

Contact

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Email law-masters@unimelb.edu.au or phone +61 3 8344 6190.

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Subject Overview:

Principal topics will include:

  • The problem of work-related injury and disease
  • The history of the legal regulation of health and safety at work
  • Standard setting under the Australian occupational health and safety statutes
  • State enforcement of the occupational health and safety legislation
  • Workers’ rights under the Australian occupational health and safety statutes
  • Workers’ compensation schemes in Australia
  • The rehabilitation of injured workers
  • The role and impact of the common law duty to provide a safe workplace.
Objectives:

A student who has successfully completed this subject should:

  • Be able to apply, at an advanced level, the legal principles of Victorian occupational health and safety law in problem-solving exercises
  • Be able to analyse emerging and contemporary issues in Victorian and Australian occupational health and safety law and scholarship
  • Appreciate the industrial relations, economic and social contexts of injury and disease at the workplace, and its regulation
  • Be able to use historical, theoretical and practical perspectives to evaluate the way in which law can be used to prevent and compensate for illness and injury at work, and to rehabilitate workers suffering work-related illness and injury
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the development of Victorian and Australian occupational health and safety law in an international context.
Assessment:

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Prescribed Texts: Core subject materials will be provided free of charge to all students. Some subjects require further texts to be purchased. Visit the Melbourne Law Masters website for more information about this subject.
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.
Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date

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