Occupational Health, Safety and Quality (10 cr)

Learning outcomes

The student is able to:
- define occupational health and safety and quality management compliance requirements, best practices and apply those
- assess and manage occupational health and safety risks
- plan, assess and develop occupational health and safety as part of organisations operations
- lead and manage occupational health and safety operations

Location and time

[This field is not used at Laurea.]

Materials

1. LEGISLATION, applicable sections used (see: Finlex)
-Constitution of Finland
-Employment Contracts Act
-Occupational Safety and Health Act
-Working Hours Act
-Act on Occupational Safety and Health Enforcement and Cooperation on Occupational Safety and Health at Workplace
-Act on Co-operation within Undertakings
-Occupational Health Care Act
-Act on Equality between Women and Men
-Non-Discrimination Act
-Rescue Act
-Workers' Compensation Act
-Framework directive on occupational safety and health in the EU (not in Finlex, see EU-OSHA)

2. STANDARDS (kts. LibGuides)
-ISO31000:2018 Risk management
-ISO45001:2018 Occupational health and safety management systems
-ISO9001:2015 Quality management systems
-SFS-EN IEC 31010 Risk assessment techniques

3. LITERATURE
-The Centre for Occupational Safety. (2019). Well-being at Work Card - Guidelines for developing. NOTE: will be handed out during course
-The Centre for Occupational Safety. (2016). Occupational Safety Card; Occupational safety at a common workplace - towards proactive safety. NOTE: will be handed out during course
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Teaching methods

IMPLEMENTATION
This implementation is meant for full-time students and exchange students.
Blended learning- and online learning students should enroll to TO00BN71-3002

TEACHING GROUPS
When enrolling, you must choose a teaching group based on language.
Students in Finnish degree programmes: Blended learning - Finnish
Students in English degree programmes and exchange students: Blended learning - English

CONTENT
-Has the equivalent of four total contact days
-Has preparatory and complementary online teaching and independent studying
-Student has the opportunity to complete the Occupational Safety Card and the Well-being at Work Card during the contact sessions.
-Student groups are allocated working life partners to complete their course assignment with (with certain reservations)

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
All contact studies will take place at Leppävaara campus or elsewhere in the capital region. All online teaching and study unit communication takes place in the Canvas online learning environment, real time online meetings in MS Teams- and Zoom-rooms.

GUIDANCE AND R&D METHODS
Students must complete a learning assignment that requires e.g interviewing, observation and reporting skills in collaboration with the working life. The assignment is scheduled and it also contains guidance by lecturers and the working life partners as well if necessary.

Employer connections

Study unit has a learning assignment that is completed in collaboration with a working life partner.

Exam schedules

Note: this only has the most important dates for completion of the study unit. All teaching can be found in your Pakki calendar.

1. Accepting your place in study unit: 3.9 at 12:30-15:00

2. Mandatory presence if you wish to claim the Occupational Safety Card: 9.10 at 8-16

3. Mandatory presence if you wish to claim the Well-being at Work Card: 30.10 at 9-15

4. Return of learning assignment: 22.11

5. Debrief of learning assignment, every group must be represented: 3.12 at 12:30-15

6. Study unit exam (online)
- Scheduled exam time: week 48
- 1st retake opportunity: week 51
- 2nd retake opportunity: week 2

International connections

The study unit is suitable for exchange students.

Study unit uses partially English materials and EU-level legislation and materials,

Completion alternatives

Recognition of prior studies: if you have completed comparable studies earlier or in another university: be in touch with your head of student affairs.

If you have previously completed the now removed study unit "Occupational Safety and Personnel Security" before 2020, this grants you a recognition of 5 credits; therefore, the work load and awarded credit amount of this study unit is 5 credits.

Demonstration of competence: According to the degree regulations “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 module or study unit or another person designated by the director of the UAS unit. The assessment is carried out according to the same criteria and grading scale as that adopted for the corresponding study unit.” For further information visit Link. Complete a competence analysis (https://laureauas.sharepoint.com/sites/linken/Documents/Competence%20analysis_instruction.pdf) and send it to kaci.bourdache@laurea.fi before enrolling or as soon as possible after enrollment.

Student workload

One credit equals approximately 26.7 hours of work performed by the student; 10 cr = 267 hours.
Distribution of work is estimated to be the following:

-Contact sessions: 32h
-Preparatory and complementary online teaching and independent studying: 115h
-Learning assignment: 120h

Content scheduling

Themes worked on during study unit:
-Management of OSH
-Analysis and assessment of the risks at work
-Occupational safety, health and well-being
-Equality and non-discrimination in a workplace
-Flow, quality and productivity of work
-Investigation of accidents
-Travel safety
-Psychology of crisis situations, workplace conflicts

Methods worked on and used:
-Risk management process
-Risk evaluation- and assessment methods
-Accident investigation methods
-OSH indicators and measurement
-Reporting- and development methods
-Quality management methods

Issues researched and developed:
-Level of OSH
-Quality of work performance
-Equality and non-discrimination in a workplace
-Safety consciousness and know-how at a workplace
-Organization and management of OSH
-Crisis preparedness

Discussed concrete end products:
-Analysis and assessment of the risks at work
-Occupational safety and health policy
-Gender equality plan
-Equality plan
-Personnel and training plan (appropriate parts regarding themes of study unit)
-Well-being at work development plan

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

According to the degree regulations (section 18) “students must be present in the first contact session or notify their teacher in charge if they cannot attend. If they fail to notify the teacher of their absence in the first contact session, their enrolment will be rejected. Another student in the queue may be enrolled in the study unit in the place of the absent student.”

Study unit is primarily meant for students of Safety, Security and Risk Management degree.

Open university students have 10 places reserved
3AMK students have 10 places reserved
Exchange students have 10 places reserved

Accepting place in study unit on contact day 3.9 at 12:30-15:00