SAFE20019 - Evidence-Informed OHS Practice

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit provides you with the opportunity to consolidate and apply all of the knowledge, skills and attitudes developed during your learning journey in the course, particularly with regard to human factors, occupational health and hygiene, safety science, and risk management. The unit also develops theoretical and methodological knowledge to allow you to evaluate the evidence that will inform your professional practice. There is a specific emphasis on developing higher order skills and understanding which are representative of the holistic application of core skills that occurs when a professional understands the interaction between disciplinary domains in solving complex problems.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisites: N6638 Safety in Complexity and N6652 Safety Regulation and Management

Co-requisite: SAFE20011 Exposures and Health Risk, SAFE20017 Human Factors in Complex Systems and N6672 Hazard Management and Risk Control

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
Mixed Mode

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 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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 30%
2. Portfolio 70%

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 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 25% 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 Unit Comments Report
Feedback
Clearer instructions in regards to the use of templates to complete assessment tasks has been requested (i.e. accompanying instructions as to their use/completion).
Recommendation
The provision of templates will be accompanied by instructions as to their completion in the next term this unit is offered.
Action Taken
Additional instructions were provided in the resources and during the lectures/tutorials.
Source: SUTE Unit Comments Report
Feedback
The volume of supporting resources and readings provided in revision materials for the Occupational Hygiene and Human Factors topics for use in the assessment tasks has been has been noted as excessive and unnecessary.
Recommendation
Additional resources that are not essential to the completion of specific assessment tasks will be identified as optional additional resource/readings, or will be removed from Moodle.
Action Taken
Resources not required were removed from Moodle for this past term.
Source: Staff feedback
Feedback
Conduct of face to face residential
Recommendation
Due to low enrolment numbers and the cost of attendance at a residential in Rockhampton, there is consideration by the Safety Sciences team to alter the practical component to assessment activities conducted in the students own location, using their current organisation or another workplace for the completion of practical assignments.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Select and apply tools and techniques to analyse human factors, occupational health, hygiene and other complex problems.
  2. Design risk management strategies for a variety of settings.
  3. Manage and lead OHS professional practice teams.
  4. Select, evaluate and apply appropriate research methods to analyse complex problems in safety science.
  5. Analyse, critique and present contemporary OHS issues and research in safety science.
  6. Evaluate the evidence base to support practice.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Written Assessment • • •
2 - Portfolio • • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Knowledge • • • • • •
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
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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