Overview
This unit provides an overview of occupational health and safety as a discipline. Students will trace the history and development of the discipline and develop an appreciation of the impact of the occupational environment on the health and safety of individuals. Students will examine the costs and benefits of strategies to prevent occupational injury and illness and be introduced to the different specialities within the OHS discipline.
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 3 - 2021
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 Have Your Say Feedback
Students asked that the written information on the History of OHS be given to them earlier in the unit.
It is recommended that the written information on the History of OHS be given to students in the first two weeks of term, rather than any later in the term.
Feedback from Student Have Your Say Feedback
Students commented favorably on the unit overall and appear to like the style delivery with both a formal lecture and supportive tutorial aimed more at academic study support. They also liked the wide range of content which is presented to expand their understanding of the profession of OHS.
It is recommended that the current format and content for the teaching of this unit remain the same as it is well received by students.
- Trace the history and development of occupational health and safety.
- Identify the essential elements of occupational health and safety.
- Describe the impact of occupational injury and disease on individuals, organisations and society.
- Source risk management and prevention guidance material.
- Construct a reflective mind map related to occupational health and safety topics.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 40% | |||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 40% | |||||
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) - 40% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||||||
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.
k.klockner@cqu.edu.au
c.p.hardy@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Lecture: Introduction to the Unit
Chapter
All Chapters are from the OHS Body of Knowledge (BoK):
Chapter 3.1 - The Generalist OHS Professional
Events and Submissions/Topic
No tutorial
Module/Topic
Lecture: The Extent of the OHS Problem
Chapter
Chapter 4 - Global Concepts - Work, 2012
Chapter 5 - Global Concepts - Safety, 2012
Chapter 6 - Global Concepts - Health, 2012
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial: Tips for studying at university
Module/Topic
Lecture: Humans
Chapter
Chapter 7.1 - The Human: As a biological system
Chapter 8.1 - The Human: Basic psychological principles
Chapter 8.2 - The Human: Basic principles of social interaction
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial: OHS Knowledge - Evidence Informed Professional Practice
Module/Topic
Lecture: Organisations
Chapter
Chapter 10.1 - The Organisation
Chapter 10.2.1 - Organisational Culture
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial: Assessment 1 - Quiz
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Socio-political Context
Chapter
Chapter 9.1 - Socio-political context in Australia
Chapter 9.2 - Work Health and Safety Law in Australia
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial: Assessment 2 - Mind Mapping
Module/Topic
Lecture: Hazards and Risks
Chapter
Chapter 15 - Hazard as a Concept
Chapter 31.1. - Risk
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial: Harvard Style Referencing
On Line Quiz - Elements of Occupational Health & Safety Due: Week 6 Monday (20 Dec 2021) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture: Control: Prevention and Intervention
Chapter
Chapter 34.1 - Control: Prevention and Intervention
Chapter 34.2 - User-Centric Safe Design Approach to Control
Chapter 34.3 - Health and Safety in Design
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial: Reliable research
Module/Topic
Lecture - Systems
Chapter
Chapter 12.1 - Systems
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial: International Network of Safety and Health Practitioner Organisations (INSHPO 2017) - The Occupational Health and Safety Professional Capability Framework: A Global Framework for Practice.
Mind Map Due: Week 8 Friday (14 Jan 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Lecture: Models of Causation - Safety
Chapter
Chapter 32 - Models of Causation - Safety
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial: Writing academic assignments
Module/Topic
Lecture: Models of Causation - Health Determinants
Chapter
Chapter 33 - Models of Causation - Health Determinates
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial : OHS Professional as Researcher and Professional Specialisations
Module/Topic
Lecture: Introduction to OHS Practice
Chapter
Chapter 37 - Introduction to 'practice' as a concept
Chapter 39.1 - The OHS professional as a 'critical consumer' of research
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial : Assignment 3 Report Help - Drop In Session
Module/Topic
Lecture: Introduction to OHS - Unit Summary
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
No Tutorial
Report - OHS Professional Practice Due: Week 12 Friday (11 Feb 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
The formal weekly Lecture will be held via Zoom at 6.00pm (Qld time) every Monday night. Zoom details will be made available on the Moodle site. Lectures will be recorded and students will be able to access the recording after the lecture.
The informal weekly Tutorial will be held via Zoom at 7.00pm (Qld time) every Monday night. Zoom details will be made available on the Moodle site. Tutorials will be recorded and students will be able to access the recordings after the tutorial.
1 Online Quiz(zes)
In this assessment you will complete (one) online quiz via the Moodle site which covers your understanding of some of the essential elements of OHS which you have learnt about during the first 5 weeks of lectures for this unit including:-
(1) the early foundational History of OHS in the United Kingdom (England);
(2) the extent of the OHS problem in Australia;
(3) Humans;
(4) Organisations; and
(5) OHS Law.
Students will be required to complete a quiz which is made up of 40 questions, each worth one mark. Whilst students will only be allowed one final submission for the whole quiz, students will be able to access the quiz and complete their answers at any time before their final submission by the assessment 1 due date. If students fail to formally submit their quiz by the due date, the quiz will be graded on any answers allocated to questions which the student completed before the due date.
Questions are made up of multiple choice or true/false responses.
1
Other
Week 6 Monday (20 Dec 2021) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 6 Tuesday (21 Dec 2021)
Automatic Grading will be completed for the quiz after the Assessment 1 due date
Minimum mark or grade: To pass this unit students must obtain a minimum grade of 50% for all assessment tasks.
The quiz will be automatically graded based on the student's answers after the submission due date for Assessment 1.
- Trace the history and development of occupational health and safety.
- Identify the essential elements of occupational health and safety.
- Describe the impact of occupational injury and disease on individuals, organisations and society.
- Source risk management and prevention guidance material.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
In this assessment you will explore four key aspects of your study in this unit in order to display your deeper understanding of key concepts as a Mind Map.
Therefore, for each of the OHS elements listed below, display, via your Mind Map, your key understandings of these elements from a complex systems lens as covered in the OHS Body of Knowledge chapters you have read, being: -
(1) The Human including Biological, Psychological and Social Systems (Week 3 = Chapters 7.1, 8.1 and 8.2),
(2) The Organisation (Week 4 = Chapters 10.1 and 10.2.1),
(3) Hazards and Risks (Week 6 = Chapters 15 and 31.1)
(4) Control including Prevention and Intervention (Week 7 = Chapters 34.1, 34.2 and 34.3)
The four headings above form the basis of your Mind Map, branching out from OHS in the centre, and you should add to those branches, ideas, concepts, understandings and linkages of what you now know they represent as they relate to the OHS Body of Knowledge material covered in this unit in the first 7 weeks.
Presentation Format:
You are required to prepare a ONE page Mind Map of what you have learnt about this term under each of the headings referred to above.
Examples of Mind Maps will be given in Moodle, however please feel free to research Mind Maps think about how you would like to present your work.
Week 8 Friday (14 Jan 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 10 Friday (28 Jan 2022)
Minimum mark or grade: To pass this unit students must obtain a minimum grade of 50% for all assessment tasks.
When grading this submission specific attention will concentrate on finding:-
1. Evidence of your development of learning and understanding in relation to the key elements and concepts presented in these chapters of the Body of Knowledge (75%); and
2. Evidence of critical thinking and creativity of presentation of key ideas (25%).
A detailed marking matrix will be provided via the Moodle site.
- Trace the history and development of occupational health and safety.
- Identify the essential elements of occupational health and safety.
- Describe the impact of occupational injury and disease on individuals, organisations and society.
- Source risk management and prevention guidance material.
- Construct a reflective mind map related to occupational health and safety topics.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Written Assessment
For this assessment you will prepare a written paper that discusses your understanding of both Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) as a 'profession' and the 'role' of the OHS professional.
Your paper should cover the following two main areas which have been covered in this unit: -
1. Discuss both (a) a brief historical development of the profession of OHS demonstrating your understanding of how the profession began in the early industrial (UK) era, and (b) how the OHS profession is understood to now be conducted in complex socio-technical systems, then:
2. Discuss how the chapters of the OHS Body of Knowledge, that you have studied this term, informs the practice of OHS professionals, in their role to reduce the occupational injury and disease impacts to individuals, organisations and the wider community (society) (i.e. refer to the wide range of chapters covered in this unit via the OHS BoK).
Word expectation: 2000 words.
Submission should be in Word format only - Not PDF.
Week 12 Friday (11 Feb 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (18 Feb 2022)
Minimum mark or grade: To pass this unit students must obtain a minimum grade of 50% for all assessment tasks.
Assessment Criteria:
Ability to discuss the early UK historical development of the OHS profession - 20%
Ability to discuss a modern day socio-technical view of the OHS profession - 20%
Ability to discuss how the OHS professional uses the OHS Body of Knowledge chapters to inform OHS practice - 40%
Organisation and sequence of written expression of the report, accurate grammar and spelling - 10%
Correct Use of Harvard Style Referencing - 10%
A detailed marking matrix will be available to you via the Moodle site.
- Trace the history and development of occupational health and safety.
- Identify the essential elements of occupational health and safety.
- Describe the impact of occupational injury and disease on individuals, organisations and society.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- 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?
