SAFE28001 - Safety Regulation and Management

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit is designed to equip you with a comprehensive knowledge of contemporary trends in the regulation and management of health and safety in organisations. You will explore legal liability for health and safety and examine contemporary statutory developments regarding prevention. In addition, you will become acquainted with modern corporate governance and due diligence requirements which provide the impetus for the implementation of effective risk-based health and safety management and its integration with organisational business processes.

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 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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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 1 - 2025 Profile
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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. Case Study 40%
2. Report 30%
3. Written Assessment 30%

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 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 30% 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: Reflection
Feedback
Continuously review content and assessment items to ensure currency and contemporaneity
Recommendation
The content and assessment requirements will be continuosly reviewed in order to ensure that the unit remains current and includes contemporary developments.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Interpret and apply legal concepts, processes and procedures relevant to liability for exposure to health and safety risks
  2. Apply the work health and safety regulatory framework to determine legal liability
  3. Outline the elements of an effective risk-based safety management system
  4. Design, develop and implement a risk-based safety management system
  5. Evaluate the effectiveness of a risk-based safety management system

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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2 - Report • • • • •
3 - Written Assessment • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes 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
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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