Overview
This unit will provide students with the basis for explaining the evolution of accident investigation methods and practice. On completion, students will be able to explain the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of key theoretical accident causation models and apply the models to accident scenarios.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2018
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Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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Continue with online Zoom tutorials in the next offering of this unit.
- Analyse the evolution of accident investigation methods and practice.
- Use accident causation models to establish accident causation factors.
- Apply accident causation models to contemporary accident case studies.
- Evaluate the application and effectiveness of accident causation models.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to accident phenomenology.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development of the intermediate practitioner.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | ||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||
| 3 - Practical Assessment - 20% | ||||||
| 4 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Practical Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 4 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
Additional Textbook Information
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.munn@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction and Course overview
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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The accident phenomenon
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The accident phenomenon cont.
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Evolution of Accident Investigation and Prevention
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Theoretical accident causation models
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Theoretical accident causation models cont.
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Theoretical accident causation models cont.
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The Tapestry of Failure
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Safety II and the Accident Phenomenon
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Case Study
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Case Study
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Review and Reflection
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In order to pass this unit, students must attain 50% overall, and meet the minimum mark specified for each assessment.
1 Online Quiz(zes)
Students will be required to complete two online discussion quizzes in Moodle covering material related to the evolution of accident investigation methods and practice.
There is no additional submission requirement for this assessment as students' responses to the discussion quiz will be graded on line.
This assessment task represents 10% of the course grade.
2
Other
Week 5 Monday (2 Apr 2018) 9:00 am AEST
Vacation Week Friday (13 Apr 2018)
Grades will be applied based on the number of correct responses.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to accident phenomenology.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development of the intermediate practitioner.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
Students will write a short 'thinking' paper positing a point of view to describe why accidents are still occurring after more than 100 years of "modern" approaches to accident prevention.
Your paper should be a maximum of 1500 words and your arguments should be supported by appropriate citations from the literature and applicable case studies. Your work should be correctly referenced using an appropriate academic referencing method such as Harvard author/date. A list of references used should be included at the end of your paper.
Your paper must NOT be written in the first person.
The grade for this Assessment Task accounts for 20% of the total assessment for this course.
Week 6 Monday (16 Apr 2018) 9:00 am AEST
Week 7 Friday (27 Apr 2018)
As a general rule assessment criteria for all assessment items include
1. (90%) Content—includes the accuracy, relevance and application of key concepts, analysis, argument, language and grammar used in answering a question or report (see marking criteria for individual requirements).
2. (10%) References—includes the provision of a reference list and the application of the Harvard style for referencing information, data, tables or images sourced for the assignment or report.
A marking rubric containing detailed assessment criteria will be provided in the Moodle Unit.
- Analyse the evolution of accident investigation methods and practice.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to accident phenomenology.
- Communication
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
3 Practical Assessment
In this assessment task students will investigate the literature relating to ONE of the theoretical accident models and prepare a position paper.
You will select one accident model from the following list:
- Heinrich’s Domino Theory
- Haddon Matrix
- Reason System of Safety Management Model
- Human Factors Analysis and Classification System
- Time Sequence Model
- Extended Energy Damage Model
- FRAM
Explore the literature and discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the chosen model in relation to:
a). Its effectiveness in addressing failures in:
i. Technology
ii. Systems
iii. Human factors
iv. Social and organisational networks, including management, supervision
v. Education & Training
vi. Culture
b). The model's guidance on:
i. Establishing and validating corrective and remedial actions
ii. Learning from failure
iii. Risk minimisation
Your position paper should be limited to 2000 words maximum and be supported by relevant citations (minimum of 10) from the literature.
Your paper must NOT be written in the first person.
The grade for this Assessment Task accounts for 20% of the total assessment for this course.
Week 8 Monday (30 Apr 2018) 9:00 am AEST
Week 9 Friday (11 May 2018)
As a general rule assessment criteria for all assessment items include
1. (90%) Content—includes the accuracy, relevance and application of key concepts, analysis, argument, language and grammar used in answering a question or report (see marking criteria for individual requirements).
2. (10%) References—includes the provision of a reference list and the application of the Harvard style for referencing information, data, tables or images sourced for the assignment or report.
A marking rubric containing detailed assessment criteria will be provided in the Moodle Unit.
- Use accident causation models to establish accident causation factors.
- Apply accident causation models to contemporary accident case studies.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development of the intermediate practitioner.
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
4 Written Assessment
In this assessment task students will use an accident case study provided by your lecturer (in Moodle) to evaluate the effectiveness of TWO selected theoretical accident causation models in explaining the failures which occurred in the case study.
1. You will select two theoretical accident models (different to that chosen for Assessment Task three) from the following list:
- Heinrich’s Domino Theory
- Haddon Matrix
- Reason System of Safety Management Model
- Human Factors Analysis and Classification System
- Time Sequence Model
- Extended Energy Damage Model
- FRAM
2. Populate the models with the critical factors from the case study provided by the lecturer (in Moodle) to explain, in the language of the models, the failures which occurred in the accident.
3. Students will then prepare a written report to explain:
- The reasons why the particular models were chosen
- The key characteristics of the models
- How well the models enabled explanation of the accident phenomena (The tapestry of failures which led to the accident)
- The perceived strengths and weaknesses of the chosen models in describing the accident phenomenon
Your report should not exceed 3000 words. It should be supported by relevant citations (minimum of 10) from the literature.
Your report must NOT be written in the first person.
The grade for this Assessment Task accounts for 50% of the total assessment for this course.
Week 12 Monday (28 May 2018) 9:00 am AEST
Exam Week Friday (15 June 2018)
As a general rule assessment criteria for all assessment items include
1. (90%) Content—includes the accuracy, relevance and application of key concepts, analysis, argument, language and grammar used in answering a question or report (see marking criteria for individual requirements).
2. (10%) References—includes the provision of a reference list and the application of the Harvard style for referencing information, data, tables or images sourced for the assignment or report.
A marking rubric containing detailed assessment criteria will be provided in the Moodle Unit.
- Analyse the evolution of accident investigation methods and practice.
- Use accident causation models to establish accident causation factors.
- Apply accident causation models to contemporary accident case studies.
- Evaluate the application and effectiveness of accident causation models.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to accident phenomenology.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development of the intermediate practitioner.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
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Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
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