Overview
Fatigue Risk Management examines the physiological and psychological aspects of fatigue 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 and the contribution of work and non-work related factors to fatigue related risk. The current regulatory environment surrounding the management of fatigue related risk will also be explored.
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 Postgraduate 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.
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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
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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
Students wanted increased opportunity for peer-to-peer interaction
A Zoom session will be offered at a convenient time for the students each week. For those who are unable to attend due to work or family commitments, there will be phone/zoom based support on a 1:1 basis offered.
Feedback from Student evaluations
Students indicated they wanted more written feedback from the Unit Coordinator via discussion threads rather than individually.
As requested, feedback and responses to student queries will be provided in the discussion forums so that all students can benefit from the responses, rather than via individual email.
- Explain the physiological and psychological consequences of fatigue
- Interpret and discuss how social, domestic and working arrangements mediate fatigue related risks
- Assess fatigue related risks associated with different working time arrangements and tasks
- Design and evaluate appropriate fatigue risk management systems having regard for regulatory fatigue management restrictions
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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2 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||
3 - Written Assessment - 40% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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2 - Communication | ||||
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
4 - Research | ||||
5 - Self-management | ||||
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
7 - Leadership | ||||
8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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1 - Group Discussion - 20% | ||||||||
2 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||||
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.
drew.dawson@cqu.edu.au
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Hello and welcome to the new 12-week course on Fatigue Risk Management.
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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This week we will be starting off the course by talking about working hours and approaches to fatigue management, beginning by giving some background to how fatigue management in Australia developed beginning in the 1980s.
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This week we will look further into Fatigue Management by examining how Fatigue Risk can be measure and quantified.
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This week we will be looking closer at examining the effects of fatigue.
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This week we will examine the legal and political contents and frameworks in which Fatigue Risk Management has developed.
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Spring break
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This week we will examine the defenses in depth approach to fatigue risk management. Many organisations focus too much on developing a small number of risk controls to safeguard workforce, equipment and efficiency. A multi-layered approach to fatigue risk management can be much more effective.
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Fatigue Risk Management Discussion Topic Due.
In this assessment activity you will respond to the two discussion topics below, develop and post your discussion on the topics by week 6 (as two separate posts), you should then respond to the post of at least two of your colleagues with well thought out feedback before the end of the term.
Due Friday 30 August
Fatigue Risk Management Discussion Topics Due: Week 6 Friday (30 Aug 2019) 11:59 pm AEST
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This week we will look at how you go about building a Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS). This is exactly your task 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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This week we will examine the first level of the Defenses in Depth Model, by looking at Level 1 Fatigue Risk Controls.
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This week we will cover the second level of the Defenses in Depth Model, looking at Level 2 Risk Controls. These include fitness for duty policies and models to examine sleep/wake.
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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
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This week we will cover the 3rd level of the Defenses in Depth Model, looking at Level 3 Risk Controls. These include many physiological, behavioural and subjective measurements used to assess fatigue
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This week we will look at Level 4 Controls which are used to reduce Fatigue Likelihood and "Fatigue Proof" organisations. We will also take a look at some examples from several different industries
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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
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1 Group Discussion
In this assessment activity you will respond to the two discussion topics below, develop and post your discussion on the topics by week 6 (as two separate posts), you should then respond to the post of at least two of your colleagues with well thought out feedback before the end of the term.
Discussion Topic #1: In general, many organisations attempt to define fatigue. If you compare that with the definitions given in the Noy paper, you will observe some differences. Compare and contrast the differences between the definitions in your exemplar policy and those provided as part of the global consensus statement. What are the implications of the definitional differences. How might you modify real world policies to reflect current scientific thinking. Alternatively one might argue does it really matter? In the words of Justice Stewart defining fatigue might be liked to defining pornography, i.e. it is hard to define, but I know it when I see it (http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/obscenity.htm). Can policy arguments around the definition of fatigue merely become counterproductive and shift the focus away from actually dealing with the problem? Discuss.
Discussion Topic #2: In many fatigue management policies you will see widely varying differences in the factors contributing to fatigue. Indeed in some cases, there can even be misattributions or at least, the identification of factors with minimal impact (e.g. nutrition). From the fatigue management policies you have identified, try and rank the factors contributing to fatigue in order of importance. Having done this, are you sure this ranking applies to all jobs? Might different factors have different influences in different settings? Discuss.
Examples used
in these discussions should be retrieved from published research and reputable
sources such as the peer reviewed literature, Coroner's Findings, Royal
Commission Reports, ATSB, or other government websites, etc
Examples used in these discussions should be retrieved from published research and reputable sources such as the peer reviewed literature, Coroner's Findings, Royal Commission Reports, ATSB, or other government websites, etc
Week 6 Friday (30 Aug 2019) 11:59 pm AEST
Moodle discussion page
Exam Week Monday (21 Oct 2019)
You will be assessed on your participation in the moodle discussion forums and your contribution to the relevant discussion topics around Fatigue Management.
- Explain the physiological and psychological consequences of fatigue
- Interpret and discuss how social, domestic and working arrangements mediate fatigue related risks
- Assess fatigue related risks associated with different working time arrangements and tasks
- Design and evaluate appropriate fatigue risk management systems having regard for regulatory fatigue management restrictions
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
2 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. The FRMS will be reviewed by other students as part of the final assessment exercise.
Week 10 Monday (23 Sept 2019) 9:00 am AEST
Submit your FRMS Online
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
- Interpret and discuss how social, domestic and working arrangements mediate fatigue related risks
- Assess fatigue related risks associated with different working time arrangements and tasks
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
3 Written Assessment
For the final assessment for the Fatigue Risk Management Unit, you are required to review another student's FRMS as completed for the previous assessment. To do this you will need to read the FRMS 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 report on the FRMS 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
Submitted online through Moodle.
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
- Interpret and discuss how social, domestic and working arrangements mediate fatigue related risks
- Assess fatigue related risks associated with different working time arrangements and tasks
- Design and evaluate appropriate fatigue risk management systems having regard for regulatory fatigue management restrictions
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
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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.
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