Overview
This unit will provide students the opportunity to compare and contrast the investigative domains of air, rail, road and industrial safety. Learners will evaluate the basic principles of accident investigation that are unique to each of the domains.
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).
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Attendance Requirements
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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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- Grades and Results Policy
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- Review of Grade Procedure
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Have Your Say
Having other lecturers present on topics that are their area of expertise encouraged engagement between the students and the lecturer
Continue to use various lecturers to present the material related to their area of expertise.
Feedback from Have Your Say
Students requested that the maritime domain be introduced into the unit.
Include the maritime domain in the areas to be taught.
Feedback from Have your say
Students found there was not enough time between the last evaluation paper and the final comparison assignment. This did not give adequate time to act on feedback.
Ensure that dates set for assignments give adequate time between them to allow feedback to be acted upon.
- Explain the basic principles of accident investigation that are unique to air, rail, road, and industrial accident contexts.
- Evaluate the aspects of accident investigation and forensics unique to air, rail, road and industrial contexts.
- Compare and contrast the domains of air safety, rail safety, road safety and industrial safety.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to diverse investigative contexts.
- 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 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | |||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 40% | |||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 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 - 40% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
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
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Module 1 - Common principles of the domains
- Legislation
- Obligations
- Life Cycle
- Systems
- Reliability
- OHS
- Common safety issues between domains
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Module 2 - Aspects that define a domain
- Industries served
- Laws and Regulators
- Sciences
- Safety regimes and operations
- Forensic techniques
- Stakeholders
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Module 3 - Aviation
- Context of aviation safety science
- Defining the aviation domain
- Regulatory framework
- Aviation Safety Management Systems
- Accident reporting
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Quiz 1 Due 9.00am Monday 30 July 2018
Module/Topic
Lecture: Aviation continued
- Operations
- Aviation hazards
- Technologies unique to aviation
- Forensic technologies
- Investigation tools and methodologies
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Quiz 2 Due 11.55pm Sunday 12 August 2018
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Module 4 - Rail
- Context of rail safety science
- Defining the rail domain
- Regulatory framework
- Rail Safety Management Systems
- Accident reporting
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Rail continued
- Operations
- Rail hazards
- Technologies unique to rail
- Forensic technologies
- Investigation tools and methodologies
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Domain Evaluation 1 - Air - Due 9.00am Monday 27 August 2018
Module/Topic
Lecture: Module 5 - Road
- Context of road safety science
- Defining the road domain
- Regulatory framework
- Road Safety Management Systems
- Accident reporting
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Road continued
- Operations
- Road hazards
- Technologies unique to road
- Forensic technologies
- Investigation tools and methodologies
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Domain Evaluation 2 - Rail - Due 9.00am Monday 10 September 2018
Module/Topic
Lecture: Module 6 - Industrial
- Context of industrial safety science
- Defining the industrial domain
- Regulatory framework
- Industrial Safety Management Systems
- Accident reporting
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Industrial continued
- Operations
- Industrial hazards
- Technologies unique to industry
- Forensic technologies
- Investigation tools and methodologies
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Domain Evaluation 3 - Road - Due 9.00am Monday 24 September 2018
Module/Topic
Lecture: Module 7 - Examples of other domains
- Agriculture
- Hospitality
- Maritime
- Medical
- Emerging technologies
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Domain Evaluation 4 - Industrial - Due 9.00am Monday 8 October 2018
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Domain Comparison - Due 9.00am Monday 22 October 2018
1 Online Quiz(zes)
You are required to complete two quiz activities
Quiz 1 Moodle Post - Legislation in the domain (5 marks).
You will be required to explore the regulatory agency or agencies of one domain of your choice (aviation, rail, road and industrial) and:
- Identify the Laws (Acts), regulations and other advisory documentation that defines the domain
- Give a short description of five which explains how each assists to define the domain.
Your post should be limited to 500 words.
Provide a final reference list for the sources you have accessed and used. The final reference list is not included in your word count.
You will be able to see what your peers have posted only after you have posted your own submission.
Your response will be rated out of 5.
Quiz 2 Mind Map - Aspects that define a domain (5 marks)
Select a domain from the following options:
- Aviation
- Rail
- Road
- Marine
Your selection must be different from the one chosen in Quiz 1. The options do NOT include industrial.
Based on the lecture material and your own research, prepare a mindmap that demonstrates aspects that define the domain.
Your post may be uploaded as an attachment.
You will be able to see what your peers have posted only after you have posted your own submission.
Your response will be rated out of 5.
2
Other
Quiz 1 is due 9.00am Monday 30 July 2018; Quiz 2 is due 11.55pm Sunday 12 August 2018
Two weeks following submission due date
For Quiz 1 the following assessment criteria will apply:
- Identification of the Laws (Acts), regulations and other advisory documentation that defines the domain
- Short description of five which assists in defining the domain.
Where appropriate, sources used must be referenced in accordance with the Harvard system (non-graded requirement).
For Quiz 2 the following assessment criteria will apply:
- Information provided is relevant and comprehensive to the chosen domain.
- Explain the basic principles of accident investigation that are unique to air, rail, road, and industrial accident contexts.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to diverse investigative contexts.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development of the intermediate practitioner.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
This assessment task requires you to evaluate the aspects of accident investigation and forensics unique to aviation (10%), rail (10%), road (10%) and industrial (10%) safety.
At the end of each of the aviation, rail, road and industrial modules you are required to:
- Explore the web sites of the various regulatory and investigation agencies
- Access accident reports from the specific domain; and
- Access any public accident databases relative to the domains (links to some useful sources of information will be provided in Moodle)
and respond to the following:
- What are the unique characteristics of this domain in relation to laws, technologies, operation and hazards?
- What agencies are responsible for regulation and investigation in the domain?
- What are the key definitions that define accident reporting in this domain and how are accidents reported?
- What procedures and methods are prescribed/recommended in this domain?
- What accident investigation/forensic methods are used that are unique to this domain?
Please note this assessment is to be submitted as four individual submissions, one for each domain.
Each submission should be approximately 1000 words.
A final reference list must be provided.
As per the study schedule.
Three weeks after each submission.
For each domain submission the following assessment criteria will apply
- Identified the unique characteristics of this domain in relation to laws, technologies, operations and hazards
- Identified the agencies responsible for regulation and investigation in this domain
- Explained key definitions that define accident reporting in this domain and how are accidents reported
- Explained the procedures and methods prescribed/recommended in this domain
- Explained the accident investigation/forensic methods used that are unique to this domain
Where appropriate, sources used must be referenced in accordance with the Havard system (non-graded requirement)
- Explain the basic principles of accident investigation that are unique to air, rail, road, and industrial accident contexts.
- Evaluate the aspects of accident investigation and forensics unique to air, rail, road and industrial contexts.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to diverse investigative contexts.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
3 Written Assessment
This assessment task requires you to compare and contrast the domains of aviation safety, rail safety, road safety and industrial safety.
This assessment builds on the understandings derived in Assessment Task 2 - Domain Evaluation.
Drawing on the reports you accessed in Assessment 2 - Domain Evaluation, your learning and any additional material, respond to the following:
Part A (25%)
Compare and contrast the reports for each domain in relation to their effectiveness in
- Understanding what happened
- Communicating why it happened
- Explaining methods of analysis
- Enabling the reader to reach the same conclusions as the author/s
- Providing recommendations that are directly linked to the analysis and conclusions
Part B (25%)
Compare and contrast the domain investigation framework as a tool for domain learning and accident prevention
You must ensure that you use examples from the reports within your discussion and use current relevant literature to support your argument
Your submission should not exceed 3000 words for both Part A and B.
A final reference list must be provided.
Monday 22 October 2018
Within two weeks of submission date
Part A (25%)
- Understanding what happened
- Communicating why it happened
- Explaining methods of analysis
- Enabling the reader to reach the same conclusions as the author/s
- Providing recommendations that are directly linked to the analysis and conclusions
Part B (25%)
- Degree of comparison and contrast of the domain investigation framework as a tool for domain learning and accident prevention
- Use of examples from the reports accessed in Assessment 2 - domain evaluations
- Use of current relevant literature to support your argument
Where appropriate, sources used must be referenced in accordance with the Harvard system (non-graded requirement).
- Compare and contrast the domains of air safety, rail safety, road safety and industrial safety.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to diverse investigative contexts.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development of the intermediate practitioner.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
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