| Effective Term: | 2025/04 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Workplace Health and Safety Regulation, Systems and Complexity |
| Unit ID: | HLWHS6001 |
| Credit Points: | 30.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (SCOHS5510 and SCOHS5514) |
| ASCED: | 061301 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit introduces the workplace health and safety regulatory environment and explores how the concepts of regulation, organisational leadership, culture and ethics operate to influence how organisations control workplace health and safety risk. It provides an overview of the complexity of organisations, as well as the impact of regulation, leadership, culture and ethics within a complex adaptive system. The concept of wicked problems factors is introduced as it related to workplace health and safety. Students are given an opportunity to work through these concepts as they may relate to their own practice and organisations. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | |  | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Examine concepts of workplace health and safety / occupational health and safety law & regulation; |
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| K2. | Evaluate the role of law & regulation in controlling workplace health and safety / occupational health and safety risk; |
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| K3. | Relate concepts of systems and complexity to workplace health and safety management; |
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| K4. | Predict the role of leadership, ethics and culture in workplace health and safety and controlling risk. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Scrutinise legal issues in workplace health and safety practice; |
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| S2. | Evaluate the role of workplace health and safety regulation in controlling risk; |
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| S3. | Critique concepts of systems and complexity to workplace health and safety management; |
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| S4. | Analyse the role of leadership, ethics and culture in controlling risk. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Critique the effect of regulation and law in workplace health and safety practice; |
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| A2. | Generate systems approaches to regulatory and legal requirements; |
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| A3. | Apply critical thinking and problem solving in scenario analysis; |
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| A4. | Incorporate organisational leadership, ethics and culture into evidence-based recommendations. |
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| Unit Content: |
Evidence-informed practice. Occupational health and safety management systems/auditing. Leadership. Motivation. Systems thinking. Safety culture. Complex Adaptive Systems. Wicked Problems. High reliability organisations. Safety rules. Psychology and human behaviour. Resilience engineering. Ethics and professional practice. Introduction to work health and safety in Australia. Standard setting. Rights and obligations. Responsibility and liability. |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate high-level skills to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups Students will be required to display (in person and/or online) high-level skills in-person and/or online in: • Effective verbal and non-verbal communication via a range of synchronous and asynchronous methods • Active listening for meaning and influencing • High-level empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating extended conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply leadership skills and behaviours Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating, contributing to, and enabling collegial environments • Showing self-awareness and the ability to self-reflect for personal growth • Inspiring and enabling others • Making informed and evidence-based decisions through consultation with others • Displaying initiative and ability to solve problems | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complex and ambiguous environments, using their imagination to create new ideas Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically on complex problems • Synthesising, evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Proposing alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts through deep inquiry • Proposing creative solutions in problem solving | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work proficiently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks Students will be required to display high-level skills in: • Finding, accessing, collating, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and appropriately and securely sharing complex digital information at a high-level • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Using digital tools appropriately to conduct research • Contributing proficiently to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and utilising digital learning opportunities | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to think ethically and sustainably. Students will be required to display skills in: • The responsible conduct of research • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in multiple global economic environmental and societal contexts • Demonstrating commitment to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Generating research solutions which are sustainable,ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable • Extending lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Demonstrate extended actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | 1 - Yes |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | Professional Standards |
| 1. |
K3, S3, A3 |
Individual presentation based on an OHS law case and pertinent aspects of complex systems theory, leadership and or culture |
Presentation |
20-30% |
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| 2. |
K4, S4, A3, A4 |
Fact sheet based on legal case and integrating concept of work done versus work as imagined (WAD v WAI) and motivation |
Fact Sheet |
20-40% |
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| 3. |
K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, A1, A2, A3, A4 |
Major research project related to a workplace issue |
Major research project |
40-60% |
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