Overview
This unit is Part A of a two-unit learning series which will provide students the opportunity to consolidate and practically apply all of the knowledge, skills and attitudes developed during their learning journey in the OHS course. In particular as related to analyses which draw on human factors, occupational hygiene, safety science and risk management knowledge. There is a specific emphasis on developing higher order skills and understandings which are representative of the holistic application of core skills that occurs when the professional understands the interaction between core disciplinary domains in solving complex problems. In addition, students will explore professional practice through the lens of futures methods and thinking, applied research methodology, project management and return on prevention analyses. During this unit (Part A), students will negotiate with an industry sponsor to complete project work during Part B of this unit series and will prepare appropriate documentation in readiness for approval. Students will create and submit a professional portfolio of their work.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite:- 48 credit point, including OCHS12002 Occupational Health and Safety Practice Co-requisite:- OCHS13016 and either OCHS12019 or OCHS13008.
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 - 2018
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).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
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 Have Your Say survey
Students enjoyed the heavy industry sites visits in Gladstone.
Continue to hold this residential school in Gladstone and retain the suite of heavy industry site visits.
Feedback from Have Your Say survey
Students felt that timetabling this residential school in later weeks of the term made the assessment deadlines more challenging.
Return this residential school to its previous time slot earlier in the term.
Feedback from Have Your Say survey
Students enjoyed applying the practical skills during their site visits, but felt that the structure of the written reports could be streamlined.
Review the structures of the written residential school reports to ensure they are efficient and businesslike.
- Select and apply tools and techniques used to investigate and analyse human factors, occupational hygiene, accidents and other complex problems.
- Design risk management strategies for a variety of settings and communicate 'return on prevention' effectiveness.
- Evaluate the usefulness of futures methods to OHS related domains.
- Discuss contemporary problems and issues related to professional practice in OHS contexts and consider how applied research methods might be utilised to help solve the problem or issue.
- Lead professional OHS practice through effective project management and facilitation of teams.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | |||||
| 2 - Portfolio - 70% | |||||
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 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Portfolio - 70% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
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.
a.hutton@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Lecture
Module 1 : Welcome
- Topic 1 : What Is Paradigms A?
- Topic 2 : Preparing for Placement
Module 2 : Preparing for Res School
- Topic 1 : Advanced Risk Management in Practice
Chapter
Readings
What is Paradigms A?
- BoK Ch 3 "The Generalist OHS Professional in Australia"
- BoK Ch 37 "Introduction to Practice as a Concept"
- BoK Ch 38 "The Model of OHS Practice"
Advanced Risk Management in Practice
- BoK Ch 15 "Hazard as a Concept"
- BoK Ch 31 "Risk"
- BoK Ch 31.2 "OHS Risk and decision-making
- OHS BoK Ch 34 "Control - Prevention and intervention"
- Relevant Australian and international standards
Links to these and additional readings will be provided on the Moodle site.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial
Risk Management Skills
- Introduction to Risk Registers
- Permit to Work
- Reading P&Ids
Module/Topic
Lecture
Module 2 : Preparing for Res School
- Topic 2 : Hygiene - Why
Chapter
Readings
- BoK Ch 12 "Human biological systems"
- BoK Ch 33 "Models of causation - health determinants"
- BoK Ch 17 "Chemical hazards
- BoK Ch 18 "Biological hazards"
- Relevant Commonwealth and State standards and guidance material
Links to these and additional readings will be provided on the Moodle site.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial
- Hygiene Risk Assessment
Assessment Activity
- Contact Unit Coordinator to discuss placement ideas
Module/Topic
Lecture
Module 2 : Preparing for Res School
- Topic 3 : Hygiene - How
Chapter
Readings
- BoK Ch 22 "Noise and Vibration" - vibration subsections
- BoK Ch 24 "Ionising radiation"
- BoK Ch 25 "Non-ionising radiation - Electromagnetic"
- BoK Ch 26 Thermal Environment
- Relevant Commonwealth and State standards and guidance materials
Links to these and additional readings will be provided on the Moodle site
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial
- Hygiene Handling Results
Module/Topic
Lecture
Module 2 : Preparing for the Res School
- Topic 3 : Human Factors
Chapter
Readings
- BoK Ch 12 "Human biological systems"
- BoK Ch 13 "Human psych principles"
- BoK Ch 14 "The Human principles of social interaction"
- BoK Ch 16 "Hazard biomechanical"
- BoK Ch 19 "Stress - Psychosocial Hazards"
- BoK Ch 20 "Fatigue"
- BoK Ch 24.1 "User centric safe design approach to control
- Materials and videos on a range of Human Factors tools
Links to these and additional readings will be provided on the Moodle site.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial
- Human Factors Skills : NIOSH, RULA and REBA Calculations - worked examples
Module/Topic
Lecture
Module 2 : Preparing for Res School
- Topic 4 : Accident Investigation - Scene Management
Chapter
Readings
- BoK Ch 1 "Models of Causation : Safety"
- Ferry Ch 1 "The Need for Investigation"
- Ferry Ch 3 "Getting Underway with the Investigation
- Qld Ombudsman Report, section 7.2.2 "Evidence gathering and issue identification
- Site visit host websites, videos and information material
Links to these additional readings will be provided on the Moodle site
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial
- What to expect at Res School
- Leadership
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Residential School
- Site Visits & Skills
- Futures and Starting Board Papers
- One on one discussions with Unit Coordinator on placement proposal progress
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Residential School
- Gladstone Marina Campus 9:00am Mon 16 April to 5.00pm Fri 22 April
Assessment :
- Portfolio Part A - Preliminary Site Visit Reports - Verbal Presentations
Module/Topic
Lecture
Module 3 : Professional Practice in OHS Contexts
- Topic 1 : Problem Solving : Science or Art?
Chapter
Readings
No BoK chapters this week. There will be relevant articles linked on the Moodle page
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial
- After Residential School - Writing Reports and Recommendations
Module/Topic
Lecture
Module 3 : Professional Practice in OHS Contexts
- Topic 2 : Project Management
Chapter
Readings
No BoK chapters this week. There will be relevant articles linked on the Moodle page
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial
- Proposal Writing
Module/Topic
Lecture
Module 4 : Futures
- Topic 1 : Taking Contemporary Problems and Issues Forward
Chapter
Readings
No BoK chapters this week. There will be relevant articles linked on the Moodle page
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial
- Writing Board Papers
Assessment
- Portfolio Part A : Res School Final Reports
- Portfolio Part B : Res School Leadership Reflection
Module/Topic
Lecture
Module 4 : Futures
Topic 2 : What Haven't We Thought About Yet?
Chapter
Readings
No BoK chapters this week. There will be relevant articles linked on the Moodle page
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial
- What You Need to Do Before Your Placement Project Starts
Module/Topic
Lecture
Module 4 : Futures
- Topic 3 : Black Swan Events
Chapter
Readings
No BoK chapters this week. There will be relevant articles linked on the Moodle page
Events and Submissions/Topic
Tutorial
- Getting a Head Start on Paradigms B
Assessment
- Placement Project Proposal : Written Proposal
Placement Project Proposal for Approval by Sponsor Due: Week 11 Monday (21 May 2018) 9:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment
- Portfolio Part C : Res School Futures Board Papers
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
There are no required textbooks to purchase for this unit. However The OHS Body of Knowledge is used available to download and print for non-commercial purposes at http://www.ohsbok.org.au/download-the-body-of-knowledge/. Additional readings, videos and resources will be provided throughout the term.
1 Practical and Written Assessment
This assessment provides the opportunity to scope and develop a project proposal in OHS practice and forms part of the preparation for your next course OCHS13021 Future Paradigms in OHS B. This project proposal documents the results of your negotiations with an industry sponsor (client) for the project work that you will undertake during OCHS13021 Future Paradigms in OHS B. The project proposal must clearly document the project, including aims, objectives, timing and outcomes for both the student and the industry sponsor.
You must
- Identify an industry sponsor (client)
- Contact the Unit Coordinator to discuss placement ideas and concepts (before the end of week 2)
- Negotiate the purpose, scope and logistics of your placement with your client
- Keep the Unit Coordinator informed of the progress of the negotiations
- Document the completed negotiations as a project proposal suitable for submission to your client for approval
Further information will be provided throughout the term, via Moodle, during tutorials, in Residential School and in discussion with the Unit Coordinator
Week 11 Monday (21 May 2018) 9:00 am AEST
Exam Week Monday (11 June 2018)
The assessment criteria for the Placement Project Proposal will include:
- Introduction
- Scope
- Problem solving approach and methodology
- Project Plan
- Gantt Chart (or similar visual plan)
- Logistics & project management
- Evidence of negotiation with client
- Project Proposal Agreement Sheet
- Work Integrated Learning form
- Formatting
- Professional Written Expression
- Sources and referencing
- Keeping the Unit Coordinator informed of negotiation progress
- Select and apply tools and techniques used to investigate and analyse human factors, occupational hygiene, accidents and other complex problems.
- Design risk management strategies for a variety of settings and communicate 'return on prevention' effectiveness.
- Evaluate the usefulness of futures methods to OHS related domains.
- Discuss contemporary problems and issues related to professional practice in OHS contexts and consider how applied research methods might be utilised to help solve the problem or issue.
- Lead professional OHS practice through effective project management and facilitation of teams.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Portfolio
This assessment comprises 4 Parts. Portfolio requirements will be discussed thoroughly during residential school.
Part A - Residential School Team Work (50%)
During the residential school you will be working in teams to complete risk management, hygiene, human factors and accident scene management activities at various industrial sites. Each team member will participate in each activity. At the end of the residential school, each team member will deliver part of the team's preliminary results in a verbal presentation and will be able to answer questions on any part of the team's presentation. The team will submit the visual supporting materials for the presentation into moodle immediately after the residential school. During the residential school and in the two weeks after the residential school, you will work with your team to prepare a technical report on each activity.
With your team, you will complete the following:
- Preliminary results delivered as a verbal presentation supported by visual presentation materials
- Hygiene site visit report
- Human Factors site visit report
- Risk Management activity report
- Accident Scene Management activity report
Part B - Residential School Leadership Reflection (10%)
- Your work as an OHS progressional will place you in both formal and informal leadership roles as well as influencing roles. Write an individual reflective piece discussing your critical and constructive observations of leadership during the group activities, considering your roles as participant and as leader. With reference to literature on team leadership and management, define leadership behaviours, reflect on the leadership behaviours your observed in yourself and others, evaluate what worked well and what you and others in your team could perhaps have done differently to improve the team dynamic and produce a more effective outcome.
Part C - Residential School Futures Board Paper (10%)
- During the residential school, you will be provided with Futures tools and a case study organisation. Choose 1 topic from the list provided on Moodle. Use the Futures tools to assist you to develop the Future position of the case study organisation. Write an individual 1500 word board position paper, with reference to current literature, defining the topic, describing its impact or application within the case study organisation and proposing a future direction and activities for the case study organisation,
Part D - Professionalism (Pass/Fail)
- Throughout the residential school, students will be assessed on their ability to apply professional approaches to all activities. No submission is required for this assessment.
Res School Portfolio Part A Preliminary results will be assessed during residential school; Part A Technical Reports and Part B Leadership Reflection are due 0900 Mon 7 May (Week 9); Part C Futures Board Paper is due 0900 Mon 28 May (Week 12)
Within three weeks of submission
The detailed assessment matrices for each part will be provided and explained during the term. In summary, students will be assessed on their demonstration of risk, hygiene, human factors, accident scene management, futures, presentation and professional skills using the following criteria
- Problem definition
- Explanation of methodology
- Application of technical knowledge to real-life situations
- Critical thinking through discussion and findings
- Practicality of recommendations
- Accuracy when following instructions and completing tools, forms and worksheets
- Written expression
- Structure
- Formatting
- Referencing
- Presentation delivery
The professionalism assessment will include
- Attendance
- Teamwork
- Personal leadership
- Professional and Ethical Practice
No submission method provided.
- Select and apply tools and techniques used to investigate and analyse human factors, occupational hygiene, accidents and other complex problems.
- Design risk management strategies for a variety of settings and communicate 'return on prevention' effectiveness.
- Evaluate the usefulness of futures methods to OHS related domains.
- Discuss contemporary problems and issues related to professional practice in OHS contexts and consider how applied research methods might be utilised to help solve the problem or issue.
- Lead professional OHS practice through effective project management and facilitation of teams.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- 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?
