Unit Profile Correction added on 04-07-22
In the Schedule Week 4, events/submissions and topic, the date of Friday 2 August is incorrect. It should read Friday 5 August 2022.
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).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2022
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
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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You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
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- 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
k.perry@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Lecture: Introduction to the unit
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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Lecture: Common principles of the domains
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Lecture: Aspects that define a domain
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Quiz 1 Due: Friday 29 July 2022, 5.00pm AEST
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Lecture: The aviation domain part 1
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Quiz 2 Due: Friday 2 August 2022, 5.00pm AEST
Zoom tutorial to follow lecture
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Lecture: The aviation domain part 2
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Zoom tutorial to follow lecture
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Pre-recorded lecture: The rail domain part 1
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Domain Evaluation 1 Aviation Due: Friday 26 August 2022, 5.00pm AEST
Zoom tutorial TBA
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Pre-recorded lecture: The rail domain part 2
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom tutorial TBA
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Pre-recorded lecture: The road domain part 1
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Domain Evaluation 2 Rail Due: Friday 9 September 2022, 5.00pm AEST
Zoom tutorial TBA
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Pre-recorded lecture: The road domain part 2
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom tutorial TBA
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Pre-recorded lecture: The industrial domain part 1
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Domain Evaluation 3 Road Due: Friday 23 September 2022, 5.00pm AEST
Zoom tutorial TBA
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Pre-recorded lecture: The industrial domain part 2
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Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom tutorial TBA
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Independent study
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Domain Evaluation 4 Industrial Due: Friday 7 October 2022, 5.00pm AEST
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1 Online Quiz(zes)
You are required to complete two quiz activities.
Quiz 1 Moodle Post - Legislation in the domain
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 define the domain. You must provide 10.
- Give a short description of five of the above 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 is not included in the 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. No feedback will be given.
Quiz 2 Mind Map: Aspects that define a domain
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 mind map that demonstrates aspects that define the domain.
You do not need to include a final reference list.
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. No feedback will be given.
2
Other
As outlined in the Schedule and on Moodle
Two weeks following submission
For Quiz 1 the following assessment criteria will apply:
- Identification of the Laws (Acts), regulations and other advisory documentation that define the domain
- Short description of five of the above which assists in defining the domain.
Where appropriate, sources must be referenced in accordance with the Harvard system.
For Quiz 2 the following assessment criteria will apply:
The 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 websites of the various regulatory and investigation agencies
- Access a minimum of two accident reports from the specific domain; and
- Access any public databases relevant to the domains (links to some sources of information will be provided on the Moodle site).
and respond to the following based on the accident reports you have accessed, as well as other information:
- What are the unique characteristics of this domain in relation to laws, technologies, operations and hazards?
- What agencies are responsible for regulation and investigation in this domain?
- What are the key definitions that define accident reporting in this domain and how are accidents reported?
- Are there any specific procedures and methods that are prescribed or recommended in this domain pertaining to how accidents are investigated?
- What accident forensic methods are used, that are unique to this domain?
Please note that this assessment is to be submitted as four individual submissions, one for each domain.
Each domain evaluation will be marked out of 10.
Your assignment will not be successful unless you include the minimum of two accident reports as indicated above.
Each evaluation should be approximately 1000 words.
A final reference list must be provided for each evaluation.
As outlined in the Schedule and on Moodle.
Two weeks after each submission
For each domain evaluation the following assessment criteria will apply:
- Identified the unique characteristics of the domain in relation to laws, technologies, operations and hazards
- Identified the agencies responsible for regulation and investigation in the domain
- Explained the key definitions that define accident reporting in the domain, including how accidents are reported
- Explained the procedures and investigation methodology in the domain
- Explained the forensic methods unique to the domain.
Where appropriate, sources used must be referenced in accordance with the current CQUni Harvard Referencing Guide.
- 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 Evaluations
Drawing on the accident reports you accessed in assessment task 2 - Domain Evaluations, your learning and any additional material, respond to the following:
Part A (25%)
Compare and contrast your accident reports for each domain in relation to their effectiveness in:
- Understanding what happened
- Communicating why it happened
- Explaining the methods of analysis
- Enabling the reader to reach the same conclusions as the author/s of the accident report
- Providing recommendations that are directly linked to the analysis and conclusion.
Part B (25%)
Compare and contrast the domain investigation framework, as used in your accident reports, as a tool for domain learning and accident prevention.
You must ensure you use examples from your accident reports within your discussion and use current and relevant literature to support your argument.
Your submission must not exceed 3000 words for part A and B.
A final reference list must be provided.
Exam Week Monday (17 Oct 2022) 10:00 am AEST
Within two weeks of the submission date.
The following assessment criteria will apply:
Part A (25%)
- Critically evaluated the accident reports effectiveness in understanding what happened
- Critically evaluated the accident reports effectiveness in communicating why it happened
- Critically evaluated the accident reports effectiveness in explaining the methods of analysis
- Critically evaluated the accident reports effectiveness in enabling the reader to draw the same conclusions as the author/s
- Critically evaluated the accident reports effectiveness in providing recommendations directly linked to the analysis and conclusions.
Part B (25%)
- Critically evaluated the degree of comparison and contrast of the domain investigation framework as a tool for domain learning and accident prevention
- Use of examples from the accident reports accessed in assessment task 2 - Domain Evaluations
- Use of relevant literature to support your argument.
Where appropriate, sources used must be referenced in accordance with the current CQUni Harvard Referencing Guide.
- 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
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
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.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
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