This assessment item requires you to critically reflect on your readings and understanding from the first 4 weeks of the unit including the notions of Safety I & Safety II, Safety II in Practice and the notion of the four Resilience Potentials which informs current organisational practices around safety and resilience. The context for this assignment is that: -

A senior manager in your company (either real or made up) went to a management conference where several speakers discussed the notion that safety professionals now work in the Resilience Age of Safety. The manager would like a brief report on Safety I & Safety II and the 4 Potentials of Resilience which are believed to enhance organisational resilience practices and organisational resilience maturity.

The senior manager is not sold on these theories, so as the safety professional, you have been asked to provide a brief report which provides your opinion and viewpoint on the theories, supported by at least 10 quality references, in order to explain and develop your viewpoint.

Your review should be 1000 (+ or - 10%) words and submitted as a word document, not a PDF.

Resource Material

In developing your assessment piece you should consult peer-reviewed journals, relevant textbooks and the OHS Body of Knowledge. Extensive use of non-peer-reviewed information is strongly discouraged.

Level of Generative AI use allowed

Level 2 - You may use AI for planning, idea development and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas.

The marking criteria are below:

• Conveys reflection and understanding of Safety I & Safety II and the 4 Resilience Potentials (10%)
  
• Delivers viewpoints and/or opinions based on the critical reading of Safety I & Safety II and the Resilience Engineering theory material presented in the first 4 weeks of the unit (10%)

A detailed marking matrix will be provided in Moodle.

This assessment enables you to gain experience in reviewing and assessing workplace survey tools used to measure an aspect of resilience in organisations.

You will will be presented with several surveys, from which you are required to choose one for review. You will analyse and review the appropriateness of the survey's application in "real world" practice.

You are required to:

• recognise the purpose of the survey and its history/relevance to current theory;
• understand when and how the survey would be used in "real world" applications;
• evaluate how the meaning  of any results obtained by the use of such survey might inform strategic leadership decision-making;
• discuss your own thinking (thoughts, opinions, questions, decisions) on the usefulness of the survey (i.e. how well it is measuring the concept it is supposed to be measuring);
• discuss your own final view on the usefulness of the survey from a safety professional viewpoint, based on what you have discovered in your reading; and
• reference appropriate material to support (evidence) your written arguments.

Your review of the literature should support your writing and include a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Word limit 1,500 words (+ or - 10%).

NB: You are NOT required to administer the survey within an organisation, this is purely a theoretical exercise.

Resource Material

In developing your assessment piece, you should consult peer-reviewed journals, relevant textbooks and the OHS Body of Knowledge. Extensive use of non-peer-reviewed information is strongly discouraged.

Level of Generative AI use allowed

Level 2 - You may use AI for planning, idea development and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas.

The marking criteria are below:

(a) Understanding of the purpose of the survey and its relevance to measuring organisational resilience maturity based on the Resilience Engineering theory which supports it (10%);

(b) Understanding of when and how the survey would be used in a real-world application (10%);

(c) Understanding of how the results obtained by the use of the survey would inform an organisational resilience maturity enhancement action plan (10%);

(d) Ability to make recommendations on the use of the survey by discussing your own critical thinking on the usefulness (benefits and limitations) of the survey from a safety professional viewpoint, based on what you have discovered in your reading this term (10%).

A detailed assessment rubric will be provided in Moodle.

In every good safety researcher's toolbox is the ability to review past and current research with a view to answering key questions. Evidence-informed practice is undertaken by reviewing key research findings (evidence) which then inform decisions around safety practices. Undertaking a review of relevant literature is the key starting point for robust research. A literature review is a critical look at an area of interest from its early theoretical underpinnings up to current concepts and research findings in order to enable you to make informed decisions and gain knowledge about current issues or gaps in current research.

Choose one of the following topics. You are required to prepare a literature review which investigates the topic with a view to answering the questions asked:

1. Organisational Resilience - Do all organisations have the potential to be resilient as proposed by Hollnagel's Safety II concepts?
2. Resilience Engineering and Organisational Resilience - What does the current debate tell you about these resilience concepts being the same or different?
3. The 5 Principles of Collective Mindfulness - What is undertsood about how these principles work to enable organisations to be resilient?
4. Safety Culture - How can organisations and the leaders within those organisations increase safety culture?
5. Strategic Safety Leadership for Managing the Unexpected - What should leaders be doing to manage complex system emergence?
6. The 5th Age of Safey - Where have we been and where are we going from a safety professional point of view?

You are required to undertake self-directed research by reviewing the latest literature on the topic and demonstrate correct CQUniversity Harvard style referencing.You are also required to incorporate in your writing how the answers you are proposing can translate into evidence-based practice for you, the safety professional.

Your literature review should include a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed journal articles and should be 1,500 words (+ or - 10%).

Resource Material

In developing your assessment piece, you should consult peer-reviewed journals, relevant textbooks and the OHS Body of Knowledge. Extensive use of non-peer-reviewed information is strongly discouraged.

Level of Generative AI use allowed

Level 2 - You may use AI for planning, idea development and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas.

The marking criteria for the formal report are below:

1. Discussing your understanding of how leaders in organisations can enhance the 4 Resilience Potentials (Respond, Monitor, Learn and Anticipate), as proposed by the Safety II in Practice readings (18%);

2. Making recommendations in your report on how organisations can enhance resilience based on your critical review of the theory from an evidence-based, theory into practice view (18%).

Uses correct Harvard style referencing and demonstration of advanced academic report writing (4%).