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| Chapter | Title | Author | Current Version | Learning Objectives | Chapter Resources | Archived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Foreword, acknowledgments | youHonours Page | 3rd Edition May 2024 Archived | View Chapter | ||
| 1.2 | Contents | 3rd Edition May 2024 | View Chapter | |||
| 1.3 | Synopsis of the OHS Body of Knowledge | 3rd Edition May 2024 | View Chapter | |||
| 2 | Introduction | Pam Pryor | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| The OHS Professional | ||||||
| 3 | The Generalist OHS Professional: International and Australian Perspectives | Pam Pryor David Provan Tristan Casey Xiaowen Hu | 2021 | Chapter 3 LO | View here | |
| Global concepts | ||||||
| 4 | Work | Mike Rafferty and Sally Wright | In development | View Chapter | ||
| 5 | Safety | Sidney Dekker | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 6 | Health | David Beaumont | 2021 | View Chapter | ||
| The Human | ||||||
| Biology and Physiology | ||||||
| 7.1 | The Human: As a Biological System | Kelly Johnstone, Keith Adam, Mike Capra and Joanne Crawford | 2021 | View Chapter | ||
| Psychology | ||||||
| 8.1 | The Human: Basic psychological principles | Carlo Capponechia | In development | View Chapter | ||
| 8.2 | The Human: Basic principles of social interaction | Bill Pappas, Carlo Capponechia and Eleanor H. Wertheim | In development | View Chapter | ||
| Socio-political context | ||||||
| 9.1 | Socio-political Context for OHS in Australia | Liz Bluff | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 9.2 | Work Health and Safety Law in Australia | Neil Foster, Barry Sherriff, Eric Windholtz, Leo Ruschena | 2020 | View Chapter | ||
| The Organisation | ||||||
| 10.1 | The Organisation | Michael Griffiths, Debra Burlington | 2020 | View Chapter | ||
| 10.2.1 | Organisational Culture: A Search for Meaning | David Borys | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 10.2.1B | Appendix Organisational Culture: Thematic analysis of data from interviews and focus groups | 2014 | View Chapter | |||
| 10.2.2 | Organisational Culture: Reviewed and Repositioned | David Borys | 2020 | View Chapter | ||
| 10.3 | Governance and OHS | Planned Chapter | ||||
| Systems | ||||||
| 12.1 | Systems | Paul M Salmon, Gemma J.M. Read, Adam Hulme | 2023 | View Chapter | ||
| 12.2 | OHS Management Systems | Nektarios Karanikas, Pam Pryor | 2021 | View Chapter | ||
| 12.3.1 | Rules and procedures | David Provan, Andrew Rae | 2020 | View Chapter | ||
| 12.3.2 | Document Usability | Klaus Hofer | 2020 | View Chapter | ||
| 12.4 | Contractor management | Planned Chapter | ||||
| 12.5 | OHS performance evaluation | Planned Chapter | ||||
| 12.6.1 | Investigations | Geoff Dell, Yvonne Toft, Ivan Cikara, David Skegg and Shevaun Dell | 3rd Edition 2024 | View Chapter | ||
| 12.6.2 | Guide to Investigations | Geoff Dell, Yvonne Toft, Ivan Cikara, David Skegg and Shevaun Dell | 3rd Edition May 2024 | View Chapter | ||
| 13 | Managing process safety | Trish Kerin | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| Hazards | ||||||
| 14 | Foundation Science | Pam Pryor and Mike Capra | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 15 | Hazards as a Concept | Pam Pryor | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 16 | Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders | David Trembearth and Joanne Crawford | 2021 | View Chapter | ||
| 17.1 | Chemical Hazards | Susanne Tepe, Dino Pisanielle and Terry Elms | 2023 | View Chapter | ||
| 17.2 | Health effects of Hazardous Chemicals | Mike Capra and Scott Hahn | 2023 | View Chapter | ||
| 17.3 | Dusts, Fumes & Fibres | Linda Apthorpe, Dr Shahnaz Bakand, Dr Jennifer Hines, Leanne Treadwell, Jane Whitelaw | 2023 | View Chapter | ||
| 17.4 | Process Hazards (Chemical) | Trish Kerin | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 18 | Biological Hazards | Amanda Jones | 2021 | View Chapter | ||
| 19 | Psychosocial hazards | Kïrsten A Way | 2020 | View Chapter | ||
| 20 | Fatigue | Jessica L Paterson, Sally A Ferguson and Drew Dawson | 2020 | View Chapter | ||
| 21 | Bullying and violence | Carlo Caponecchia, Kïrsten A Way | 2021 | View Chapter | ||
| 22.1 | Occupational Noise | Beno Groothof | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 22.2 | Vibration | Beno Groothof | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 23.1 | Electricity | Leo Ruschena | 2021 | View Chapter | ||
| 23.2 | Electricity Appendix - Arc Flash | Brett Cleaves | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 24 | Ionising Radiation | Martin L Ralph | 2021 | View Chapter | ||
| 25 | Non-Ionising Radiation – Electromagnetic | Leo Ruschena and Martin L Ralph | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 26 | Thermal environment | Ross DiCorleto | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 27 | Gravitational hazards | Neil Adams | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 28 | Mechanical Plant | Roger Lim, Tony Payne | 2020 | View Chapter | ||
| 29 | Mobile plant | Gloria Kyriacou Morosinotto | Under review | View Chapter | ||
| 30 | Vehicles and occupational road use | Rwth Stuckey | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| Risk | ||||||
| 31.1 | Risk | Jean Cross | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 31.2 | OHS risk and decision making | Carmel Bofinger, Jan Hayes, Chris Bearman, Derek Viner | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| Causation | ||||||
| 32 | Models of causation: Safety | Yvonne Toft, Geoff Dell, Karen K Klockner and Allison Hutton | Under review | View Chapter | ||
| 33 | Models of causation: Health determinants | Wendy Macdonald | Under review | View Chapter | ||
| Control | ||||||
| 34.1 | Prevention and intervention | Leo Ruschena | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 34.2 | User-Centered Safe Design approach to control | Tim Horberry, Robin Burgess-Limerick, Neil Storey, Matthew Thomas, Leo Ruschena, Margaret Cook, Chad Pettitt | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 34.3 | Health and safety in design | Australian Institute of Health and Safety | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 34.4 | Design of work | Lisette Kanse and Laura Fruhen | 2022 | View Chapter | ||
| 35 | Mitigation of health impacts | Australian Institute of Health and Safety with Australian New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 36 | Emergency management | Andrew Stanbury | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| Practice | ||||||
| 37.1 | Introduction to ‘practice’ as a concept | Under review | View Chapter | |||
| 37.2 | A problem-solving model of OHS practice | Pam Pryor and Susanne Tepe | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| 37.3 | OHS professional practice for the 2020s | Planned Chapter | ||||
| 37.4 | Workers Working from Home | Pam Pryor and David Provan | 2020 | View Chapter | ||
| Professional attributes | ||||||
| 38.1 | Working in organisations | Planned Chapter | ||||
| 38.2 | Organisational Learning | Planned Chapter | ||||
| 38.3 | Ethics and Professional Practice | Australian Institute of Health and Safety | 2019 | View Chapter | ||
| Professional skills | Planned Chapter | |||||
| 39.1 | The OHS professional as a ‘critical consumer’ of research | Andrew Rae, Anne Statham and Pam Pryor | 2023 | View Chapter | ||
| 39.2 | The OHS Professional as a workplace researcher | Planned Chapter | ||||