| Effective Term: | 2025/02 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Ohs Work Integrated Project |
| Unit ID: | HLWHS6003 |
| Credit Points: | 30.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (HLWHS6000 and HLWHS6001) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (SCOHS7701) |
| ASCED: | 061301 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit enables students to develop a critical understanding of the major research and industrial directions, literature searching methodologies, information sources and multi- disciplinary research approaches shaping contemporary research and debates applicable to the field of occupational health and safety. Students will build, apply and reflect on a range of research strategies and independent research skills to locate, retrieve, store and critically analyse, evaluate and use information effectively for research. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| 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 the social, political and economic contexts of information. |
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| K2. | Undertake a literature review in a selected field applicable to occupational safety and health. |
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| K3. | Identify and explain how information is organised and communicated in a context applicable to occupational safety and health |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Demonstrate information literacy skills through effectively locating, managing, and critically evaluating information, from emerging technologies and sources. |
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| S2. | Design and implement literature review and research strategies to identify gaps, trends, inconsistencies and patterns of research, applicable to the field of occupational health and safety |
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| S3. | Assess the accuracy, reliability and relevance of knowledge claims and arguments through critical reading, interpretation, analysis and evaluation of information sources. |
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| S4. | Prepare and present written and oral reports to an audience. |
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| S5. | Apply appropriate referencing conventions in the presentation of academic work. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Conduct a literature review within a field of occupational safety and health. |
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| A2. | Define a topic in diagrammatic and concise written outline form. |
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| Unit Content: |
• Who does research in occupational health and safety and why; • What is evidence-based practice and its value; • The field of occupational health and safety research; • The connections with and contributions of occupational health and safety knowledge to other disciplines, fields of research and professional practice; and • Current occupational health and safety preoccupations and related contextual influences. • Contemporary research practices with reflections on the role of the researcher; and what constitutes effective research. • Identifying a research focus, begin to develop effective strategies for: research, information literacy and literature reviews. |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K3, S2, S3, A1 | Workplace report related to the use of research and evidence- in workplace OHS practice | Workplace Report | 20-30% | | 2. | K2, K3, S1, S2, A2 | Diagram and presentation of appropriate research methodology and methods for a specific topic
| Diagrammatic representation of literature and other sources. Vee Heuristic | 10-20% | | 3. | K1, K2, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, A1 | Literature Review and Report on OHS-related challenge | Literature review | 40-60% | | 4. | K1, S2, S3 | Reflection Piece | Reflection Journal | 10-20% |
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