Emerging Occupational Health Issues
Introduction
Task
Literature
Review: (Essay)
Topic:
Emerging Occupational Health Issues in (a chosen industry)
In the contemporary workplace there are a
range of emerging issues in the management of occupational health. Based on
relevant sources of occupational health information, data, statistics and/or
workplace incidence records you are required to select one emerging
occupational health issue and undertake a critical literature review, focusing
on a single organisation or industry of your choice.
The requirements for this assignment must
undertake the following tasks:
1) Introduction: outline the aims and
objectives of your review and explain why the selected emerging issue is
significant in occupational health terms in the chosen workplace/ industry.
2) Review of the relevant literature for the
chosen emerging occupational health issue. The review must compare, examine and
critically discuss the chosen workplace/ industry, concepts and/or results that
are presented in the literature. You need to consider such issues as:
• How the health hazard/risk manifests itself
at the selected industry/workplace and how it may cause harm;
• Legislative requirements relating to the
health hazard/ risk – (for Australia you need to consider the Work Health and
Safety legislation, 2011), relevant codes and guidelines and referring to
relevant Australian/ International Standards.
• Standard industry practice relating to the
elimination or minimisation of the health hazard and its effectiveness.
3) A conclusion that summarises the main
content of the discussion informed by the beginning of the process in the
introduction where you outlined the content and discussion
4) Presented in academic assignment style
format, following the APA 6th system of in-text acknowledgements and a
reference list.
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