OCHS13010 - Applied Worksite Analysis

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit is designed to polish professional practice in occupational health and safety and complement study in ergonomics and occupational hygiene. An industry focused perspective on occupational health and safety is provided along with a consideration of contemporary occupational health and safety issues and practice paradigms. Students are required to attend a compulsory residential school in Rockhampton and are given an opportunity to visit industry worksites in the region in order to complete practical assessment tasks.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: OCHS 13008 and OCHS 13016

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 Compulsory Residential School
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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2024

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 Undergraduate 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

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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%).

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Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2014 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 80.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 83.33% 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 course evaluation
Feedback
Condense res school down, not mix postgrad and undergrads
Recommendation
The new program offerings that contain residential school components will not mix undergraduate with postgraduate students.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student course evaluation
Feedback
Better equipment at res school and in calibration date. Being able to conduct monitoring / sampling in real life situations would have been better.
Recommendation
A plan is currently being developed to access up to date and maintained monitoring equipment for use by students at residential school.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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