Environmental Risk Management (5 cr)

Learning outcomes

The student is able to:
- define environmental risk management compliance requirements, best practices and apply those
- define environmental threats and analyse their impact to organisations’ operations
- assess and manage environmental risks
- create environmental risk management procedures and guidelines

Location and time

[This field is not used at Laurea.]

Materials

All material needed for studying is in the Canvas workspace or linked there.

Teaching methods

This is a fully automated implementation that will be carried out independently from 1.6.2024 to 31.12.2024. Self-direction is required. The study unit does not include meetings or working in pairs or groups. You will study in a Canvas learning environment which includes learning material and assingments/tests. You will not receive individual feedback for assignments: feedback is based on checking the accuracy of the exams after the they have been returned.

Exam schedules

The course is completed according to the student's own schedule between 1.6.2024 and 31.12.2024.

The course must be completed and the final assignment returned by December 31. by 23:59 to pass the course. Exceptionally, you do not need to confirm your place in the course.

During the summer holiday in July and during the New Year holidays, no assessments are recorded. Completed credit requests made by the end of the semester are recorded for the past semester, those made by 31.12. for the autumn semester, and those made by 31.7. for the spring semester.

However, if you are not going to complete the study, inform the teacher in charge.

International connections

The study unit is suitable for exchange students.

Completion alternatives

All students are entitled to demonstrate their competence. The recognition and accreditation of prior competence is initiated by the students themselves. The competence is recognised and accredited by the teacher responsible for the studies or another person designated to the position. The assessment is carried out according to the same assessment criteria and, as a rule, same grading scale as that adopted for the corresponding study unit or module. The student is entitled to apply for accreditation of prior competence regardless of where, how and when the competence has been acquired. The student may also seek accreditation of competence to be acquired on the job as part of their degree (work-based learning). The student is responsible for demonstrating and verifying their competence and for providing sufficient information.

Demonstration of competence for the entire study period is carried out through Tradenomikoulutus - Demonstrations of skills - Canvas. Using the basis found in the workspace, the student prepares a competency analysis and returns it to the course folder. Competence analyzes are processed once a month. If the previous competence covers part of the competence goals of the study course, the student must contact the teacher of the study course.

Enrollment to Canvas-workspace: https://canvas.laurea.fi/enroll/RPWH7N
Info for SSRM-students: https://canvas.laurea.fi/courses/855/pages/ohjeistus-turvallisuuden-ja-riskienhallinnan-opintojen-osaamista-nayttaville-slash-instructions-for-demonstrations-of-competence-in-ssrm?module_item_id=352814

Student workload

The study course contains 135 hours of work done by the student, which means an average of about 8 hours/week divided over the entire duration of the study course. Pay special attention to the scheduling of this course in your calendar, because the tasks do not have separate deadlines, but the student is independently responsible for the timing that suits their calendar.

Content scheduling

The course consists of an orientation and five modules on different subject areas. Modules 1-4 consist of an online lecture, review questions, an assignment and a midterm exam. In the last module, a final task that brings together the subject areas is prepared.

Each module has tasks and at the end there is a short exam, which, if passed, allows you to move on to the next module. At the end of the course, there is still a final assignment that gathers all subject areas.

The course modules are
- Key regulation
- Environmental management and risk management
- Sustainable development
- Chemical safety and emissions

Evaluation scale

H-5

Qualifications

Before enrolling to this study unit, you should have adequate competence of safety, security and risk management, which you can acquire for example by completing study unit HT00BN79 Basics of Corporate Safety, Security and Risk Management (10 cr) or TO00BS57 Basic Theory of Corporate Safety, Security and Risk Management (5 cr) at Open University of Applied Sciences

Further information

The study unit corresponds to the requirements of Bachelors level education.

The quality of the study unit implementation has been assessed and the self-evaluation report is available in Canvas.

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