The application of marketing concepts to occupational health and safety in an Australian University
- Authors: Giles, Murray
- Date: 1993
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The dissertation examines the legal, financial and social responsibilities that Universities have in complying with minimum occupational health and safety performance standards.The marketing principles and techniques identified in this project may assist Occupational Health and Safety managers to enhance the service provided.
- Description: Masters of Applied Science, Occupational Health and Safety
A cost analysis of accidents and injuries in the open cut coalmining industry
- Authors: Esson, Ken
- Date: 1992
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: Following a study of back injuries in the Queensland Coal Industry, there arose several questions that needed further research. One of these was the cost of accident and injuries, and the impact of this cost would have on an organisation. The project's research involved a comprehensive study of literature pertaining to the cost of accidents and injuries. This included both insured and uninsured costs. The following four classifications of accidents were researched; first aid treatments; first aid doctor treatments; lost time injury cases; and equipment accident damage cases. A coal mine was selected for the pilot study and, data was collected on the four classifications over a complete year. This means a year that has no out standing accident cases or liablilities. The research was then considered to determine its support for the acceptance or rejection of the hypothesis whic postulates that the current methods used to analyse the cost of accidents or injuries in the coal mining industry are inadequate. As a result of the above condsiderations, a number of key points are put forward in support of the acceptance of the hypothesis. The research established costs both insured and uninsured for the four classifications under review. Then a calculation of a weighted ratio of uninsured costs was made. The paper concludes by making certain recommendations and supporting the need for further research into accident costing within the coal mining fraternity.
- Description: Masters in Applied Science in Occupational Health and Safety
An evaluation of the effectiveness of one brain stress defusion and kinesiology techniques with children who experience reading difficulties
- Authors: Selkirk, Rosemary
- Date: 1992
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: This research project investigated whether 'one brain' techniques would prove effective with children who experience reading difficulties when adapted for use with small groups of primary school children.
Lifting devices used by hospital staff; their relationship to the handling of patients
- Authors: Lean, Leonard
- Date: 1991
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: This paper investigates the utilisation of lifting devices by hospital staff, in relation-ship to the handling of patients and the reasons for this. A survey was conducted at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide during June and July 1989 using a questionnaire which returned 54% (n=110) completed returns. The results showed a lack of available lifting devices; 16.4% (n=18) of health care respondents had no lifting devices available in their work area while 14.5% (n=16) of respondents had only one lifting device. Where lifting devices were available, 63.6% (n=70) of respondents used the lifting devices less than three times in the week prior to the survey. 24.6% (n=27) of respondent health care workers were of the opinion that lifting devices were not very appropriate for patient handling tasks and 12.7% (n=14) of respondents found the devices difficult to use. 22.7% (n=25) of respondents indicated insufficient room for the use of the devices. 19.1% (n=21) of respondents consider the floor plan layout in which they to be utilised obstructive. 24.5% (n=27) were of respondents found that the lifting devices were not very mobile. 24.6% (n=27) of respondents considered that the setting-up time of the lifting devices took too long and 18.2% (n=20) were of the opinion that the devices were located too far away from the workplace for quick and convenient access. Strong emphasis in the literature review is placed on Common and Statute Law of the employer's "Duty of Care" to the health care workers. The main recommendation is that users need to have input into the design of the equipment. Also, user require initial training and require on-going refresher training in the use of lifting devices for patients. Supervision of users of lifitng devices is essential.
- Description: Thesis (Master of Applied Science )
Occupational stress identified in occupational, health and safety practitioners
- Authors: Thatcher, Anthony
- Date: 1991
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science, Occupational Health and Safety
Pesticide labels : can they be understood by end-users, in order to use them safely
- Authors: Seide, Pa
- Date: 1991
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: "This paper explored the occupational health effects of pesticide use and found evidence that workers are at risk of both acute and chronic adverse health effects, the extent of which largely depends on work practices employed. The label is the focus of the communication system used to inform workers about the hazards and safe handling procedures."
- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science
Presentation media for occupational health and safety training : conveying the message or losing the meaning
- Authors: Mitchell, Thomas
- Date: 1991
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science, Occupational Health and Safety
Temporal and environmental influences on seed protein accumulation in soybean seeds
- Authors: Sykes, Geoffrey
- Date: 1991
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: Masters Degree of Applied Science
A quantitative risk assessment of laboratory fume cupboards at Monash University
- Authors: Tillman, C.J.
- Date: 1990
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: "In this work, a quantitative risk assessment procedure for laboratory fume cupboards has been developed using estimates of frequency (probabilty x exposure) and severity."
- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science, Occupational Health and Safety
The sharing of safety information between hospitals in the state of Victoria
- Authors: Greene, K. H.
- Date: 1989
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: "This study uses two examples of occupational health and safety problems encountered in nine major hospitals to illustrate that hospitals fail to identify, evaluate and share information adequately. The two safety examples used are 1. Needle-stick incidents 2. The potential for injuries associated with floor cleaning methods."
- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science, Occupational Health and Safety
A differential scanning calorimetry study of some metal 2,4 pentanedionates
- Authors: Murray, John
- Date: 1987
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: The sublimation enthalpy of beryllium (II), aluminium (III), chromium (III), iron (III), cobalt (III), nickel (II), copper (II), oxovanadium (IV) and zirconium (IV) 2,4 -pentanedionate complexes has been determined by vacuum Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), subsequent to benzoic acid being proposed as calibrant for this technique. In conjunction with existing thermochemical data for these complexes, metal-ligand homolytic bond dissociation energies are calculated and are rationalized in terms of the ionic size of the coordinated meta and the crystal field stabilization energies for the complex. Old and new methods for the determination of sublimation enthalpy are reviewed and the present data collectively reveal the versatility and precision of DSC fort the direct determination of sublimation enthalpies of metal complexes. The new sublimation enthalpy data presented for metal 2-4- pentanedionate complexes effectively ends the controversy associated with the previously reported corresponding data/
- Description: Master of Applied Science
A polarographic study of lignin reactions in soda pulping liquors
- Authors: Burton, Peter
- Date: 1986
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: Oxidation-reduction reactions between carbohydrates, lignin and quinone additives in Pinus radiata soda pulping liquors have been investigated. A reduction peak at -0.72 V (Vs SCE) was observed using differential pulse polarography when Pinus radiata wood is heated in alkaline solution in the presence of oxygen, and has been shown to result from the oxidation of lignin structures. The results of this study indicate that the electroactive species present in Pinus radiata soda pulping liquors is an oxidation product, resulting from the formation of phenoxy radicals and /or quinone methides. Although reduction potentials for anthraquinone, carbohydrates and the electroactive lignin structure fit the general redox mechanism propsed for accelerated delignification, the species observed by polarography in this study has been shown not to be involved in the main pulping reactions due to its low concentration.
- Description: Master of Applied Science
The use of crosslinked casein for the removal of heavy metals from wastewater
- Authors: Wilson, Stephen
- Date: 1986
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: This project studies the heavy metal cation adsorption of crosslinked casein, to assess its viability as an alternative means of removing heavy metal ions from the wastewater produced by mining and manufacturing processes.
- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science
A study of sulphur xanthates in relation to their role in froth flotation of sulphide minerals
- Authors: Honeyman, Ronald
- Date: 1980
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: Potassium alkyl xanthates are commonly used as collectors in the flotation of sulphide minerals. Much research has been directed to the formulation of mechanisms responsible for the hydrophobicity of the sulphide minerals in xanthate flotation. Alkyl dixanthogen plays an important role in this mixed-potential mechanism, and is regarded as the species which imparts hydrophobicity to the mineral surface. Winter has recently suggested that sulphur xanthates, which are chemically very similar to alkyl dixanthogen, may play a significant role in the processes rendering the sulphide minerals hydrophobic during froth flotation. The aim of this investigation was to develop techniques for the separation and identification of sulphur xanthates at very low levels of conecentration. Techniques employed were Molecular Emission Cavity Analysis Spectroscopy and High Performance Liquid Chromatography. It was possible to extract the sulpur xanthates from simulated flotation liquors, separate the individual species, and determine them to a level of 0.05 ppm in the liquor. Aklyl sulphur dixanthates were found to disproportionate in methanol solution.
- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science
MECA spectroscopy and its application to an investigation of the aquatic environment
- Authors: Cowell, Kenneth
- Date: 1978
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: This report details the use of the MECA spectrophotometer to establish levels of sulphur, phosphorus and heavy metal contamination in Lake Burrumbeet
- Description: Master of Applied Science
Chemistry of bis(O-ethyldithiocarbonato)cadmium(II) and flotation properties of aminodithiocarbonates
- Authors: Griffiths, Philip
- Date: 1976
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: Masters of Applied Science