Overview
This unit will provide students the opportunity to critically evaluate the potential for learning from failure to inform future mitigation of a specific accident type. Students are enabled to develop skills to inform key stakeholders through the creation of a communication plan so that the learning from accidents reaches the appropriate stakeholder audience.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prereq: AINV13001 Accident Analysis and AINV12003 Accident Forensics and AINV12002 Accident Phenomenolgy and Coreq: AINV13002 Human Factors Investigation.
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 - 2017
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.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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
Assessment Requirements
Considering introducing a facilitated discussion around examples of good and bad published report to support students' understanding of assessment requirements.
- Critically evaluate the efficacy of accident reports and accident data.
- Interpret accident data to inform future mitigation of accidents.
- Identify appropriate stakeholders and dissemination opportunities to improve community learning from accidents.
- Create a communication plan which includes the management and effective use of media.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to learning from failure to improve prevention of accidents.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development of the graduating practitioner.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Group Discussion - 0% | ||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||
| 3 - 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 - Group Discussion - 0% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
| 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
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Introduction
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The nature of failure
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The nature of failure
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Accident information and data
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Accident information and data
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No Lectures or Tutorials
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Identifying stakeholders
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Communication
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Review & reflection.
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1 Group Discussion
Student's will be expected to contribute to the Learning from Failure community of practice.
A relevant discussion topic will be posted by your lecturer in weeks 2 and 4. The discussion topic will be posted under Online Discussion 1 and Online Discussion 2 under the assessment section on the unit's Moodle page.All students are expected to participate in the discussion. This will be achieved by:
- Posting your initial response to the discussion topic in a minimum of 500 words.
- Commenting on one of your peers posts, providing objective and constructive feedback on the post.
In addition all students are expected to share details of relevant sources and materials (websites, links, journal articles, reports, book etc.) which have been used to support their own research and deliberations.
You will not be able to see what other student's have posted until you have made your initial post.
Through out the term
Comment in moodle only
Students are expected to engage as a responsible member of the learning community and meet all requirements as instructed in the task description.
- Create a communication plan which includes the management and effective use of media.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to learning from failure to improve prevention of accidents.
- Communication
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
The purpose of this assignment is to enable you the opportunity to conduct an investigation into a particular accident type which is of interest to you. The accident type can be any cluster of accidents (for example motorcycle accidents, domestic swimming pool drownings, aircraft crashes or aviation ground occurrences, train derailments, accidental patient deaths in hospital, industry accidents etc.)
By the end of week 4, you should have selected an accident type to investigate, have formulated a research question around the accident type, and from the research question formulated a hypothesis to test. Your accident type, research question and hypothesis must be approved by your lecturer.
In this assignment (assignment 2) you should complete your analysis of the available data and information regarding your chosen accident type, of which you will use to inform an identified stakeholder of your findings and recommendations in assignment 3.
Your report must include, and evidence your ability, to:
- Critically interpret, analyse and evaluate accident reports, data and information from a variety of sources in order to establish some risk and causal factors which can be used to inform future mitigation and prevention strategies.
- Prepare some findings.
- Prepare some recommendations for improvement.
Your report can be structured with similar characteristics to the one available at http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/2226870/ar/2010044.pdf, or similar format.
Week 8 Monday (4 Sept 2017) 11:00 pm AEST
Week 10 Friday (22 Sept 2017)
- Critically evaluate the efficacy of accident reports and accident data.
- Interpret accident data to inform future mitigation of accidents.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to learning from failure to improve prevention of accidents.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development of the graduating practitioner.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Written Assessment
The purpose of this assignment (assignment three) is for you to use your accident report, in particular the findings and recommendations to create a comprehensive communication plan to be delivered to an identified stakeholder.
Your communication plan should be in a format or genre that is justified, and recognized, by your stakeholder analysis.
- Your communication plan must include the reason for the stakeholder choice, that is, why the report will be pitched at a particular stakeholder to take action.
- Your communication plan must also include the management and effective use of the media.
- Your communication plan must also include the identification of dissemination opportunities to improve community learning from accidents
Review/Exam Week Monday (9 Oct 2017) 11:00 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (20 Oct 2017)
- Identify appropriate stakeholders and dissemination opportunities to improve community learning from accidents.
- Create a communication plan which includes the management and effective use of media.
- Employ effective communication strategies appropriate to learning from failure to improve prevention of accidents.
- Demonstrate reflective skills appropriate to the development of the graduating practitioner.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- 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.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
