| CODE | CLS2304 | ||||||
| TITLE | Environmental Health Management: Policy and Legislation | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for Labour Studies | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit promotes a clear understanding of the general principles of environmental health, whilst also discussing environmental health policy and its various manifestations. The unit aims to facilitate the manner in which environmental health can be protected and fostered in society, with particular reference to the workplace. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims to: - Familiarise participants with the principles of environmentally related issues in health and safety. The unit thus aims to introduce the impact of these issues on health and safety assessments and measures. - Introduce environmental economics and its link with sustainability. - Highlight relevant environmental aspects of health and safety policies, and the interrelation with environmental health policy, legislation and regulation with health and safety and public health. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Discuss the assessment of, and the relation of the following environmental issues to occupational health and safety measures: land use planning; emissions; environmentally induced conditions, vectors, pests, chemical contaminants and nuisance noise; water, pools, cooling systems and flooding; industrial solid and liquid wastes; industrial boundaries and visual environment; transport, spills and disasters; and trans-boundary pollution: the six major chemicals of concern; food safety and sanitation; the effects of atmospheric conditions on health & safety, meteorology, ambient and indoor air. - Evaluate elements of the principles of environmental economics and their relation with sustainability and their impact on health and safety during a final assessment and class discussion. - Identify and discuss during a final assessment relevant environmental aspects of health and safety policies, and the interrelation between environmental health policy, legislation and regulation with health and safety and public health. Participants should thus be able to identify and evaluate relevant policies, action plans and international co-operation (EU and WHO), the scope of ISO standards in Environmental Health Management systems, the National Radiation Structure Plans (NERSP), and the Euratom treaty articles 35 and 36. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Conduct Environmental health and safety assessments. - Utilise understanding of environmental health matters to evaluate impact of health and safety control measures on environmental matters. - Identify relevant policy, regulations and legislations. - Contribute to the control of a disaster situation. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Battersby, S. (2011). Clay's Handbook of environmental health (20th ed). Oxon: Spoon press. - Brady, J., Ebbage, A. & Lunn, R. (2011). Environmental management in organisations (2nd ed). New York: Routledge. Supplementary Readings: - Hussen, A. (2012). Principles of Environmental Economics and Sustainability: An Integrated Economic and Ecological Approach (3rd ed). New York: Routledge. - Nadakavukaren, A. (2011). Our Global Environment: A Health Perspective (7th ed). Illinois: Waveland Press. - Schettler, T., Solomon, G. & M. Valenti (2000). Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment. USA: The MIT Press. - WHO (2014). UN-water global analysis and assessment of sanitation and drinking-water (GLAAS). Retrieved from: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/glaas_report_2014/en/ |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | John Attard Kingswell Louise Spiteri |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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