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

On-line

Materials

Juholin, Elisa: Communicare (2017) https://laurea.finna.fi/Record/laurus.90185
Linking to electronic LibGuides materials: http://libguides.laurea.fi/linkit_e-aineistoihin/etusivu

Teaching methods

Due to Corona situation all teaching is on-line.
The implementation is intended for full-time students in English and Finnish. Teaching is for both groups in English.
Full-time students enroll for this implementation.

Exam schedules

To be completed later.

International connections

The study unit is suitable for exchange students.

Completion alternatives

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.

To be completed later

Student workload

One credit equals approximately 26.7 hours of work performed by the student.

Content scheduling

To be completed later.

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.”