OCHS12015 - Occupational Health and Safety Law

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit is designed to equip the learner with a comprehensive working knowledge of current work health and safety and workers' compensation law. Topics will include how common law and legislation are made, applied and interpreted, liability under the common law contract of employment, the common law duty of care and negligence and statutory developments regarding prevention and compensation.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the 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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Online

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).

Assessment Overview

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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 20%
2. Written Assessment 30%
3. Written Assessment 50%

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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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 91.67% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 31.58% response rate.

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.

Source: SUTE data.
Feedback
Enhance video, audio and recording quality.
Recommendation
This has now been largely resolved.
Action Taken
Ensure that the Echo360 system and students well informed of how to access the recorded lectures.
Source: SUTE data.
Feedback
Casual marking feedback may have been a little blunt.
Recommendation
It is recommended that mentoring in assessment feedback be provided for future casual markers to ensure that high quality feedback is given to students.
Action Taken
This was overcome by the lecturer also undertaking the marking.
Source: SUTE Feedback
Feedback
To ensure that any extracts or materials provided are in a form that can be readily used by Speechify or similar
Recommendation
Discuss with the library ways to make materials more accessible to AI text to speech platforms
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Describe the current work health and safety and workers' compensation legal frameworks in Australia.
  2. Apply relevant principles in order to determine workers' compensation entitlements.
  3. Adopt a legal fault tree approach to the chain of incident causation in order to construct an accident analysis from a legal perspective.
  4. Apply common law and statutory work health and safety provisions to determine liability.
  5. Identify appropriate responses to the enforcement mechanisms contained in work health and safety legislation.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
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