The purpose of this portfolio is to give you an opportunity to build teamwork and project management skills that will not only make you more effective in industry but also support subsequent assessment work in this unit. Task 1a is an individual submission and Task 1b is a group submission.

Task 1a Individual Team Role Profile (5 Marks) - Instructions

To be an effective team member, it is important to first understand who you are, your own strengths and limitations and then to come to know who your team is, that is the collective strengths and limitations. From this information you can understand how you work best with others, drawing on your strengths while compensating for noted limitations. This information should allow you and your team members to devise a good teamwork contract as per task 1b in this assignment. You are now required to prepare an individual team role profile: -

Examine the nine team roles (types of team role behaviour /personalities) established by Dr Meredith Belbin and identify three roles you feel you align with most. Then determine where your team role strengths fit within the broader three personality categories, namely: Social, Thinking, and Action. 

Take note of the Strengths, Allowable Weaknesses, and Don't be Surprised to Find comments about the team roles you identify with. Also consider other attributes you may have that will help to diversify or contribute to your team profile. Such things include culture, language, distance, unique experiences, skills, etc. From this information develop a personal team role profile in less than 250 words using Belbin Social, Thinking, and Action personalities in your discussion to describe which one you are.

Submission Instructions

Submit your Individual Team Role Profile in the Assessment 1a area.

Task 1b Team Contract (20 marks) - Instructions

Establish a Team Contract detailing how the group work project for Assessment 3 (MSD Project) will be conducted i.e. How tasks will get done, who will do what and how the team will communicate and how often.

As a team, you are to develop a team contract to establish lines of communication and rules of process. In 1000 words, the contract should contain:

Full team profile including profile types established in assessment task 1a i.e.  Social, Thinking, and Action
Communications plan
Schedule of milestones (for the Assessment 3 MSD Project) and/or a project management timeline
Rules of process (includes an issues resolution plan) 
All team members are to agree and sign the contract (no grade is awarded to students who have not contributed to the team contract).

To do well:

The unit coordinator will place students in teams of three or four (depending on class numbers) at the beginning of term.  As a team, get to know each other from the results in the team profiles from assessment 1a (strengths, weaknesses, and diversity). Together decide on how the team will utilise the strengths within the team and compensate for weaknesses. Together complete the team contract as early as possible. As the term progresses, meet regularly to brainstorm ideas for the MSD presentation project for assessment 3. As a team stay communicable throughout the term.

Documents will be provided on the Moodle site to support the development of the team contract including: -

Meeting Agenda-minutes (sample)
Developing a Team Contract (advice)
Belbin Team Role Handouts (get to know yourself and your team)
Marking Rubric (know what you are graded on)

Level of GenAI use allowed:-

Level 3: You may use Al to assist with specific tasks such as drafting text, refining and evaluating your work. You must critically evaluate and modify any Al-generated content you use.

Out of a possible score of 25 marks, the Team Role Portfolio is as follows:

• Individual Team Role Profile (5 Marks)
• Team Contract (20 Marks)
  • Team profile (5 marks)
  • Communications plan (5 marks)
  • Schedule of milestones (5 marks)
  • Rules of process including an issues resolution plan i.e. handling disputes, team member not actively participating (5 marks)

You are required to contribute towards a Human Factors Research Database on the Moodle site which can then be used by all students and teams to help them complete assessments 3.

You are required to undertake the following two tasks: -

Task 2a. Review four (4) peer reviewed journal articles, one for each of the following four topics which are headed: -

1. Physical, Cognitive or Organisational ergonomics;

2. Good Work Design or Work Systems;

3. Equipment Design or User's needs, capabilities and limitations;

4. The Human Factors assessment tools of Hierarchical Task Analysis or REBA or NIOSH.

In 250 words or less, your journal review posts (that no other student has already posted) should include:

• Topic header or Paper Title;
• A brief review of the journal article (if a research article: study aim, participants, methodology and findings; if a discussion paper: content of the theoretical argument);
• The major points of interest as it relates to the topic area;
• A complete reference (in CQUniversity Harvard Reference Style) so that other students can find the paper (this will not count for the word count).

Task 2b. Reply to another student's journal review, one for each topic discussion group in less than 100 words. Requirements include:

• Four (4) reply to posts (one for each topic discussion group) to other students' journal article posts.
• Extend the discussion by offering your views about the research, relating information from another source, or highlighting points of interest.

This exercise is intended to give all students a brief overview of some of the research being conducted in the field of Human Factors/Ergonomics across these four areas. This collection from students serves as a useful starting point for assessment 3 that you will do as a team project.

The end result is that you will have made eight (8) contributions, being four (4) journal article posts and four (4) reply posts.

Your contributions MUST pertain to the subject matter and ADD to the human factors area under discussion. Your posts must be completed by the due date.

Level of GenAI use allowed:-

Level 3: You may use Al to assist with specific tasks such as drafting text, refining and evaluating your work. You must critically evaluate and modify any Al-generated content you use.

Your assessment task will be assessed against:

1. Your genuine participation and research ability demonstrated by your 4 journal article posts (17 Marks); and
2. Your contribution to the students' body of knowledge in the area of Human Factors and Ergonomics demonstrated by your 4 meaningful HF replies to other students within the Moodle learning environment (8 Marks).

A detailed marking rubric will be provided via the Moodle site.

This assessment item has two (2) Parts and is worth 50% of your overall grade for this unit. Students are required to achieve a pass grade of 50% or more for this assessment in order to pass the unit.

You are required to submit the following two items:

 3a. Individual Design Workbook 15 Marks (each student to submit)

 3b. Team MSD Project Presentation 35 Marks (each team (all team members) to present in the group recorded presentation due at the end of term in week 12)

 PART 3a: Individual Design Workbook (15 marks)

As an individual you are to keep a record of the work you did during the team project and design collaboration in the form of a personal workbook. Items should include evidence of your involvement in the team project and design thinking skills. Your workbook is to demonstrate the following:

Skills in Good Work Design thinking;
The ability to critically reflect on lessons learned and skills gained during teamwork and understanding individual strengths etc.;
The ability to contribute via group work to the identification and justification of an appropriate MSD risk problem suitable for assessment;
The ability to contribute via group work to recommendations for redesigning MSD risks based on the use of HF tools.
 

PART 3b: MSD Group Recorded Project Presentation - (35 marks)

Purpose: The purpose of this assessment item is to give you experience in using Human Factors and Ergonomic (HF/E) tools, methods and techniques to identify and then reduce the risk of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs). Remember, good work design and HF/E provides an opportunity to design out faulty work practices that induce risks to humans.

This project has four main objectives: To develop 1) teamwork skills, 2) project management skills, 3) design thinking skills and 4) exposure to HF/E evidence informed practice.

Context:

An important skill of OHS and HF/E professionals is to identify work tasks that present Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD) risks. This group work assignment is about developing your understanding of the principles of human factors for assessing a manual handling task at work.

Instructions:

As a group, you are required to identify a manual handling task at work (or one at home that can be applied to a working environment) that involves a static two-handed lift. This must be a real task so that you can take measurements while someone is undertaking the task. The task is to involve lifting an object from A to B without stepping. You will be required to take photos of both the lift and lifting posture which demonstrates the MSD risks.

You are required to use and complete three human factors analytical tools namely: 1) a Hierarchical Task Analysis, 2) the Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation and 3) a Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA).

The HF/E assessments are to be done manually (i.e. no interactive tools allowed), as this is the best way to learn about the risk factors.

From the findings of your study, you are to offer redesign recommendations to reduce the MSD risk. Your work is to be presented as one group and recorded as a PowerPoint (i.e. Zoom) presentation (15-20 minutes) with a slide deck. Your slide deck should contain the following:

• Title with Group Names
• Introduction (the MSD problem)
• Background (context of work, details of worker)
• Methods (task, worker, analytical tools (materials), approach)
• Analysis (visual representation of the three tools used)
• Results: the risk factors found
• Discussion: implications for worker, organisation, others
• Recommendations: redesign of task
• Contribution of each team member (who did what and possible link to team profile)
• References: list of scholarly articles (at least 10 references).
  
  

All team members are required present as part of the recorded and submitted team presentation.

Level of GenAI use allowed:-

Level 3: You may use Al to assist with specific tasks such as drafting text, refining and evaluating your work. You must critically evaluate and modify any Al-generated content you use.

Marks for the individual workbook will be awarded as follows:

Part 3a: Individual Design Workbook (15 marks)

• Demonstrates skills in Good Work Design thinking (2.5 Marks)
• Demonstrates the ability to critically reflect (includes references) on lessons learned and skills gained during teamwork and understanding individual strengths etc. (2.5 Marks)
• Demonstrates the ability to contribute via group work to the identification and justification of an appropriate MSD risk problem suitable for assessment (5 Marks)
• Demonstrates the ability to contribute via group work to recommendations for redesigning MSD risks based on the use of HF tools (5 Marks)

Part 3b: The MSD Presentation (35 Marks) will be assessed on the following:

Title with Group Names
Introduction (the MSD problem)
Background (context of work, details of worker)

(10 Marks)

Methods (task, worker, analytical tools (materials), approach)
Analysis (visual representation of the three tools used) 

Results: the risk factors found using HF/E assessment tools

(10 Marks)

Discussion: implications for worker, organisation, others
Recommendations: redesign of task

(10 Marks)

References: list of scholarly articles (at least 10 references).
Contribution of each team member (who did what and link to team profile)

(5 Marks)