Purpose

The purpose of this portfolio is to give you an opportunity to build underpinning skills that will support subsequent assessment work. These skills include communication (verbal and visual), information literacy (academic writing, research and referencing), collaboration, critical thinking, teamwork, and IT competence.

Instructions

There are two tasks that must be completed in Moodle and then submitted for assessment as a single document in the form of a portfolio. The two tasks are as follows:

Task One: Personal team role strengths

1. Undertake the Team Role Quiz (based on Belbin) provided on Moodle.

2. Go to the Your Team Role Strengths - ? in the Assessment Block and indicate:

• As per the test, indicate your team role strengths by selecting the relevant three broad personality categories (social, action or thinker). See Belbin Team Role Handouts for guidance.
• Also indicate whether you identify with any of the other attributes (i.e. English not my first language, Live in WA or Overseas, Travel a lot, and Other challenge). These attributes can offer greater challenges to teamwork, and hence worthy of acknowledgement. The results of this query (?) will help you form teams strategically for Assessment Item 3.
• For submission, provide a brief description of your team role strengths, based on the Belbin Team Role Descriptions. 

Task Two: Review and discuss Human Factors research

You are required to 1) review one research article that no-one else has reviewed for one of the three main domain areas of Human Factors, i.e. physical, cognitive, and organisational; 2) reply to another student's review in the other two domain forums. A forum for each of these domains is set up in the assessment block for your convenience. It is recommended that you develop your review off-line before posting it in the associated forum. When you are ready to post your review, go to the relevant domain forum: start a new topic, add your review, and provide the citation of the article in the topic header: e.g. (Smith 2022). This will make it easier for other students to know which articles have been reviewed. In 150 words or less, your post should include:

• The research article review (study aim, study participants, methods, results and conclusions)
• A complete reference and publication number (at the end of the review)
• Attach or link to the article 

In the other two forums, reply to another student's review and discuss the topic at hand in a meaningful way in under 100 words. To be meaningful, the discussion needs to extend the topic. You can do this in several ways, such as:

• extending the topic by referring to another source
• illustrating a point with an example

Ensure you have a contribution in each of the three domain forums (1 Review + 2 Reply posts).

NOTE: all reviewed articles must be published research in a peer-reviewed journal. Therefore, do not review theoretical discussions, chapters, books, white papers, conference papers, workbooks, handbooks, and the like. However, these items are acceptable in a reply post where appropriate.

Out of a possible score of 25, the marks awarded for the Human Factors Portfolio are as follows:

• A brief description of your team role strengths (5 marks)
• Human Factors research posts: Review - 10 marks, Reply One - 5 marks, Reply Two - 5 marks (20 marks)

Purpose

An important skill of OHS professionals is to identify work tasks that present Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD) risks. This assignment is about developing your understanding of the principles of assessment for physical human-task interactions while at work.

Instructions

You are required to identify a manual handling task at work (or one at home that can be applied to a working environment) that involves a static two-handed lift. That is a task that involves lifting an object from A to B without stepping.

You are required to use three human factors analytical tools (HFATs), namely: 1) Hierarchical Task Analysis, 2) Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation and 3) Rapid Entire Body Assessment.

From the findings of your study you are to offer redesign recommendations to reduce the MSD risk. Your work is to be presented in scientific poster abstract format. The poster is to be suitable for display at a conference to inform delegates of the physical task you have assessed. Your poster should contain the following:

• Introduction (the MSD concern),
• Background (context of work, details of worker),
• Methods (task, worker, analytical tools (materials), analysis process), 
• Analysis (visual representation of the three tools used),
• Results: the risk factors found,
• Discussion: implications for worker, organisation, other,
• Recommendations: redesign of task,
• References: list of scholarly articles, and
• Title and analyst contact details.

• Introduction 10 marks
• Background 10 marks
• Methods 10 marks
• Analysis 20 marks
• Results 10 marks
• Discussion 10 marks
• Recommendations 10 marks
• References 10 marks
• Poster design 10 marks

Purpose

This project has three main objectives: 1) to develop teamwork and project management skills, 2) to develop systems thinking, design thinking and user-centred design skills, and 3) to develop reflective practice.

Instructions

You are required to submit the following items:

1. Team Contract
2. Team Concept Proposal
3. Individual Reflective Essay
4. Self & Peer Assessment

Team Contract (20 marks)

As a team, you are to develop a team contract to establish lines of communication and rules of process. A template will be provided on Moodle for you to use as well as instructions for forming teams. In 800 words, the contract should contain:

• Team profile and contingencies
• Communication plan
• Schedule of milestones
• Rules of process including an issues resolution plan

The use of tables and flowcharts are encouraged. All team members are to agree and sign the contract prior to submission.

Team Concept Proposal (50 marks)

As a team, your task is to find a usability problem with a machine, more specifically a human-machine interaction problem. You are to take a user-centred approach to assess and resolve the problems found. To assess the problem, you will use various human factors analytical tools. Based on findings and knowledge of human needs, capabilities and limitations, your team is to propose redesign changes to improve use of the problematic product. In 3000 words, the proposal should include:

• Title page
• A before and after visual executive summary
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• User population
• Description of chosen machine
• Methods
• Results and discussion
• Problem definition
• An evaluation of redesign options
• Justification and details of chosen concept
• References
• Appendices

The proposal should be presented in CQUni Harvard Style:

• Single document
• 1.5 line spacing
• Numbered sections

It is up to the individual team members to negotiate how the final proposal will be written. It is highly recommended to have one-person curate (put together) the final document. After which, all team members should review the entire document to ensure it flows well and is persuasive to a prospective entrepreneur. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, all team members will receive the same grade for team submissions.

Individual Reflection Essay (20 marks)

Teamwork is a microcosmos of the real world, where several transferable (life) skills will be utilised and developed to achieve a successful end product. During teamwork, you will face challenges and their resolution is where the most valuable lessons are learned. Your task is to reflect on one of these challenges and in 500 words write a short essay on the lessons learned and skills gained (or further developed) from this experience, with reference to the literature. The approach you take is up to you, though the STAR approach is one way you might structure your essay (Situation, Thoughts, Action, Results).

Self & Peer Assessment Survey (10 marks)

You are to complete a short Self & Peer Assessment to rate the teamwork process performance of yourself and your team members. This survey can be accessed from the Assessment folder in Moodle.

Marks awarded include a team grade (50 marks) and an individual grade (50 marks)

Team Contract (20 marks)

• Team profile - 5 marks
• Communications plan - 5 marks
• Schedule of milestones - 5 marks
• Rules of process, contingencies and an issues resolution plan - 5 marks

Team Concept Proposal (50 marks)

• Introduction, user group, chosen problematic machine - 5 marks
• Identifies human needs, capabilities and limitations that impact successful interaction with the chosen machine - 10 marks
• Analyses the human-machine interaction problem including the environment of use - 10 marks
• Develops a suitable problem definition statement and success criteria - 5 marks
• Systematically evaluates potential concept solutions - 5 marks
• Creatively develops a design concept that meets the problem definition from a human perspective - 10 marks
• Format is consistent with a professional design proposal in CQUni Harvard Referencing Style - 5 marks

Individual Reflective Essay (20 marks)

• Demonstrates the ability to critically reflect meaningfully on lessons learned and skills gained during teamwork – 10 marks
• The essay is supported with with reference to sources appropriately acknowledged, and grammatically correct – 10 marks

Self & Peer Assessment Survey (10 marks)

• Demonstrates an ability to be an effective team player (Communication, Reliability, Collaboration, Quality of work, and Supportiveness) – 10 marks