Unit Synopsis
The unit provides you the opportunity to undertake an authentic capstone project which draws upon learning from throughout the course. The knowledge acquired from key concepts in earlier units prompts students to consider how an organisation’s health and safety is managed and can be improved. The unit examines an organisation's readiness for change in the light of emerging models of work health and safety and considers the contribution of organisational safety maturity, organisational culture and safety climate, leadership and change management. You will apply data driven evidence based methodologies to measure organisational performance, improvement and effectiveness.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| 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, N6652 Safety Regulation and Management, SAFE20011 Exposures and Health Risk. Co-requisites: N6672 Hazard Management and Risk Control, SAFE20017 Human Factors in Complex Systems 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
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.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 25% |
| 2. Project (applied) | 35% |
| 3. Report | 40% |
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%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 33.33% 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: Student Feedback
The student liked the practical application of the workplace focussed assignments.
It is recommended to maintain the assessment items for the next offering.
The assessment items were kept the same for the 2025 offering based on the feedback from the 2024 offering.
Source: SUTE Feedback
One student reported that they could not attend the lecture due to work commitments which lessened their overall experience, but they enjoyed the video replay of the lectures
Most Safety Science students work, and it is difficult to anticipate what times will work best for students when timetabling is done. It is therefore recommended to keep recording the lectures so that students who cannot attend can still benefit from the content.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Analyse organisational factors that contribute to the health and safety environment and health and safety risk
- Evaluate work and workplace design principles for effective safety, health and well-being
- Apply data driven evidence-based methodologies to measure organisational performance and effectiveness
- Formulate recommendations for organisational health and safety effectiveness based on research and a systems approach
- Design organisational change strategies to maximise health, safety and well-being
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | |||
| 2 - Project (applied) | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Report | • | • | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 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 | • | • | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |