Overview
This unit covers topics related to occupational health and wellbeing in organisations, emphasising the principles of good work design and the integration of occupational health and safety, health promotion, wellness, work design and productivity. Topics include common occupational health hazards such as manual tasks and sedentary work behaviours, as well as psychosocial hazards such as workplace bullying, occupational violence, shift work and fatigue, which lead to occupational stress.
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 1 - 2027
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).
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
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- 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 SUTE Student Feedback
Assessment items were brief, leaving a lot to interpretation, I prefer detailed instructions.
It is noted that assessment tasks will need to be reviewed based on student feedback this term to ensure that better instructions are provided on how to complete assessment taks.
Feedback from SUTE Student Feedback
While the assignments were based on real world scenarios, they were marked as academic papers e.g. a leadership team would not be interested in references (other than legislation and resources) and would appreciate brevity. This aside, Professor Klockner was extremely knowledgable and great learning facilitator.
Some students did not understand the expectation that academic assignments in this unit, whilst requiring thinking about practice, still require in-text referencing. It is therefore recommended that the assessments be reviewed to consider how they can be better tailored towards ensuring theory (with referencing) translates into practice for student tasks. Furthermore, it is recommended that each assessment task has a stated requirement for the number of peer reviewed journal article references expected to be used to support students' written work, and that this is incorporated in the marking rubric.
Feedback from SUTE Student Feedback
This was a thought-provoking unit, given its application to my workplace. I was able to frame the content and the unit's assessments to address what I had been seeing and feeling from my colleagues. I really enjoyed this subject.
Students like the workplace context-based assessment tasks and get to explore an area of interest within their own workplace. It is recommended to keep the practical nature of the assessments but make some theory into practice changes so that students also explore the academic literature more on their chosen topic.