Overview
Management of Fatigue Risk explores the physiological and psychosocial aspects of shiftwork with the goal of providing guidance for the management of the individual, organisational and community risks. Topics include the biological and psychological impacts of non-standard work hours, the contribution of work and non-work related factors to fatigue-related risk, and the regulatory environment surrounding the management of fatigue-related risk.
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 2 - 2019
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 evaluations of teaching
Need for a zoom session to facilitate interaction with the cohort
Weekly Zoom sessions will be included in future offerings, in order to facilitate student engagement and interaction with the unit coordinator and with each other.
Feedback from Student evaluations of teaching
Assignment information needs to be consistent across all platforms
The unit coordinator will ensure that all assessment information is consistent across all platforms before publishing the unit profile and finalising the unit Moodle site.
- Explain the physiological and psychological consequences of fatigue.
- Assess fatigue-related risks associated with different working time arrangements and tasks.
- Analyse how working time arrangements mediate fatigue-related risk.
- Critique the regulatory environment surrounding the management of fatigue-related risk.
- Design appropriate fatigue risk management systems.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 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 - First Nations Knowledges | |||||
| 11 - 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 | 11 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||||||||||
| 2 - 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.
drew.dawson@cqu.edu.au
Week 1 - Welcome and Introduction
Begin Date: 15 Jul 2019Module/Topic
WE WILL COVER:
Legal and political contexts of Fatigue Risk Management
How working hours have changed
Approaches to managing fatigue in various different industries
Strategies used to manage fatigue at an organisational level
Resources, tools and technologies available to integrate into a broader safety management system.
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Week 2 - Working hours and approaches to fatigue risk management
Begin Date: 22 Jul 2019Module/Topic
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Week 3 - Quantifying the Risk Associated with Fatigue
Begin Date: 29 Jul 2019Module/Topic
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Week 4 - Examining the Effects of Fatigue
Begin Date: 05 Aug 2019Module/Topic
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Week 5 - Legal and Political Contexts and Frameworks
Begin Date: 12 Aug 2019Module/Topic
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Vacation Week
Begin Date: 19 Aug 2019Module/Topic
Spring break
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Week 6 - Defenses in Depth Approach
Begin Date: 26 Aug 2019Module/Topic
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Week 7 - Elements of a Fatigue Risk Management System
Begin Date: 02 Sep 2019Module/Topic
This week we will look at how you go about building a Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS). This is exactly your tasks for the course assessment, so this is a very important week for your course, but also for your experience and knowledge at work. In the future, you will be able to build your own FRMS and advise others using your experience.
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Week 8 - Level 1 Fatigue Risk Controls
Begin Date: 09 Sep 2019Module/Topic
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Week 9 - Level 2 Fatigue Risk Controls
Begin Date: 16 Sep 2019Module/Topic
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Assignment due
Your task is to build your own Fatigue Risk Management System for an existing or fictional business.
Due Monday 16 September
Week 10 - Level 3 Fatigue Risk Controls
Begin Date: 23 Sep 2019Module/Topic
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Week 11 - Level 4 Fatigue Risk Controls
Begin Date: 30 Sep 2019Module/Topic
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Week 12 - Level 5 Controls, Reflections and Implications
Begin Date: 07 Oct 2019Module/Topic
This week we will cover the last level of the Defenses in Depth model, level 5 risk controls. We will also look back on the course and reflect on its implications for your future FRMS experience.
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Assignment due
You are required to review several different Fatigue Risk Management Systems from those previously submitted. Thus, you are forming the review process for your colleagues FRMS documents! It will also enable you to see the differences between different approaches and different grades and my feedback on them.
Due Monday 7 October
Review/Exam Week
Begin Date: 14 Oct 2019Module/Topic
This week it’s time to look back on what you have learned, and to apply
it in the last assessment, which is to review 2 other Fatigue Risk
Management Systems as developed by other students in the course. You are
to critically evaluate them based on what you have learned, and provide
a report on each including its strengths, weaknesses and suggestions
for improvement in the short and longer term.
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Exam Week
Begin Date: 21 Oct 2019Module/Topic
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1 Written Assessment
This is the main assessment for this course. Your task is to build your
own Fatigue Risk Management System for an existing or fictional
business. You will need to use all of the discussions and course
materials to guide you through the important elements, and to develop a
complete FRMS which provides protection for the business operations at
the individual and organisational level.
Week 10 Monday (23 Sept 2019) 9:00 am AEST
Week 12 Monday (7 Oct 2019)
Your submission will be assessed on the following criteria:
- Policy
- Training & Education
- Risk Assessment & Mitigation, levels 1, 2 & 3
- Monitor/ Review
- Explain the physiological and psychological consequences of fatigue.
- Assess fatigue-related risks associated with different working time arrangements and tasks.
- Analyse how working time arrangements mediate fatigue-related risk.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
In the final assessment for the Management of Fatigue Risk unit, you
are required to review several FRMS's. To do this you will need to read the uploaded FRMS assignments and
consider all of the strategies and policies used to reduce fatigue risk,
and to assess whether they are adequate and whether others/additional
ones would be more appropriate. You will provide a 2-3000 word report report on these FRMS's to
outline the strengths and weaknesses of the system, as well as
suggestions for improvement in the short and long term.
Review/Exam Week Monday (14 Oct 2019) 9:00 am AEST
Exam Week Friday (25 Oct 2019)
Feedback will be given on request after grades are posted.
Your submission will be assessed on the following criteria:
- Policy
- Training & Education
- Risk Assessment & Mitigation, levels 1, 2 & 3
- Monitor/ Review
- Assess fatigue-related risks associated with different working time arrangements and tasks.
- Analyse how working time arrangements mediate fatigue-related risk.
- Critique the regulatory environment surrounding the management of fatigue-related risk.
- Design appropriate fatigue risk management systems.
- 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?
