Overview
On completion of this unit students should be able to explain the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of key theoretical accident analysis, simulation and reconstruction models. These students should also be able to apply the models to complex accident scenarios.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
AINV12002 Accident Phenomenology and 48 units of credit
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 - 2017
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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 Student feedback and eMails.
Positive feedback on course structure and content.
The focus on understanding and constructing an event tree is seen as a valuable skill for professional practice.
There was a deal of emphasis given to this aspect of the unit
Feedback from Student feedback and eMails; staff discussion.
Use of accident reconstruction and visualisation software.
Present arrangements allow software to be used in computer laboratory in Bundaberg only.
The cost of ARAS software in prohibitive under the present arrangements. In this term, the students were asked to critically evaluate two commercially available packages. Most did that well but some did not address the issue at all. Consideration by the whole team is needed to consider putting the survey, simulation, and physics components together.
- Evaluate the benefits, features and application of accident analysis models.
- Reconstruct accident causation sequences using contemporary methods of reconstruction and simulation.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to accident analysis.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development at an advanced level.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Group Discussion - 10% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 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 | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Group Discussion - 10% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Modern Accident Invesyigation and Analysis
Edition: 2nd (1988)
Authors: Ferry, Ted S.
John Wiley & Sons
United States of America
Binding: Hardcover
Occupational Risk Control : Predicting and Preventing the Unwanted
Edition: eBook (2015)
Authors: Viner, Derek
Farnham
Surrey, Surrey, , UK
ISBN: 9781315598703
Binding: Hardcover
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.
d.skegg@cqu.edu.au
a.hutton@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction, course overview and expectations
Review logic, timelines, accident phenomenology and significance to where you are going in this course!
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Apply and evaluate an accident analysis case study using selected tools #1 (Event Tree). Discuss on course forum
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Apply and evaluate an accident analysis case study using selected tools #2 (ICAM). Discuss on course forum
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Apply and evaluate an accident analysis case study using selected tools #3 (GTSM)
Choose an accident scenario for analysis and eventual report, using one of the models studied
Discuss on course forum
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Book a half hour meeting (phone, skype or face to face) with your lecturer to discuss your accident scenario and explain your preliminary understanding of its causation and outcomes
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Apply and evaluate an accident analysis case study using selected tools #4 (MORT). Discuss on course forum
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Apply and evaluate an accident analysis case study using selected tools #5 (eg Taproot, Bowtie, Fishbones). Discuss on course forum
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Module 2: Construct logic diagram for accident scenario. Use mind mapping techniques as necessary
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Module 3 Accident Reconstruction and simulation- introduction
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Module 3 Accident Reconstruction and simulation -comparative analysis of two or more simulation applications
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Module 3 Accident Reconstruction and simulation - report final draft
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Review
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Course Co-ordinator: David Skegg
T: (07) 4150 7181
M: o418 374 305
E: d.skegg@cqu.edu.au
NOTE: BOTH TEXT BOOKS - FERRY 1988 AND VINER 2015 - ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE CQU LIBRARY FOR FREE AS E-BOOKS
1 Group Discussion
In this assessment task you must research the accident analysis literature and review the learnings from your studies in AINV12002 Accident Phenomenology. Then select and review an accident case study from a list provided by your lecturer in Moodle to determine what analysis methods, models or tools described in the literature may have been appropriate for analysing the accident and why.
Then you must:
1. Create a new discussion thread in the Moodle Discussion Forum, describe the enquiries you’ve undertaken and explain your findings, and
2. Respond to the discussion threads of three of your fellow students regarding their own accident analysis and case study reviews
The grade for this Assessment task accounts for 10% of the total assessment for this course.
Your discussion forum posts and responses to your fellow students’ discussions will be graded online. There is no need to upload any additional responses or materials in the usual assessment item upload area of Moodle
Week 5 Monday (3 Apr 2017) 9:00 am AEST
Week 7 Friday (28 Apr 2017)
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.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to accident analysis.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development at an advanced level.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
The aim of this assessment task is for students to develop a comprehensive set of logic diagrams describing the sequence of events, causation sequences and outcomes of an accident. The resultant set of logic diagrams are then to be incorporated in a report which describes the event, the analysis undertaken, the sequence of events, causation sequences and outcomes of the accident.
Assessment Task
In this assessment task you must analyse an accident that you, a family member or friend/colleague has experienced, or another accident with which you are familiar, and prepare:
· A Timeline to explain the sequence of events that led to the accident, and
· A set of Event Tree or Bowtie diagrams, to explain all the causal factors sequences and outcomes of the accident
· A report, incorporating your completed diagrams, describing your analysis and findings.
Before commencing your analysis and before the end of week 4, you must:
· Book a half hour meeting (phone, skype or face to face) with your lecturer to discuss your accident scenario and explain your preliminary understanding of its causation and outcomes
· Gain approval of your lecturer to proceed with your analysis
During this meeting students may argue the case for applying alternative logic diagrams to their chosen accident scenario to describe the sequences of events and to explain the causation sequences and outcomes.
Your comprehensive analysis should involve at least six (6) lines of enquiry (eg failures in equipment design, physical systems, organisation and culture, operating environment, documentation and the human errors, omissions and/or violations involved).
Week 10 Friday (19 May 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (16 June 2017)
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.
- Evaluate the benefits, features and application of accident analysis models.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to accident analysis.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development at an advanced level.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Written Assessment
In this assessment task you will:
- Review the literature relating to accident reconstruction and simulation
- Critically appraise an accident reconstruction/simulation provided by the lecturer in Moodle
You will then prepare a report which explains the:
- Published applications and functions of at least two commercially available accident reconstruction or simulation programs or tools
- Benefits and limitations of accident reconstruction and simulation in describing accident sequences and causation
- Outcomes from your critical appraisal of the accident reconstruction/simulation provided
NOTE: It is not necessary in this assessment task for you to carry out an original accident reconstruction or simulation, as this practical activity will be a part of the AINV13003 Crash Lab Project residential school.
Week 12 Friday (2 June 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (16 June 2017)
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.
- Reconstruct accident causation sequences using contemporary methods of reconstruction and simulation.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to accident analysis.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development at an advanced level.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
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What is a breach of academic integrity?
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