| Effective Term: | 2025/02 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Laboratory Management and Quality Assurance |
| Unit ID: | SCCOR3000 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (At least 240 credit points from ANY subject-area at any level) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 019909 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
An understanding of the modern Australian Occupational Health and Safety culture has become one of the key employability criteria in the workplace in Australia today. This unit will consider the OHS act in Victoria, as well as National legislation, and investigate how individuals and companies comply with the legislation. Issues dealing with all aspects of the workplace from manual handling tasks to more complex handling of biological agents, chemicals and hazardous wastes will be addressed. The unit will also introduce students to HACCP/GMP for food preparation and manufacturing industries and NATA requirements for testing services and diagnostic laboratories. |
| 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. | Describe a range of assessment tools used to meet OHS requirements in the workforce. |
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| K2. | Summarise current OHS Acts and other legislative requirements |
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| K3. | Discuss the regulatory framework surrounding the food industry, pharmaceutical manufacture and diagnostic laboratories |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Recognise different hazard classes |
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| S2. | Manage risks in the workplace |
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| S3. | Recognise and treat hazardous materials and situations |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Conduct formal task based risk assessments and suggest procedures for controlling risks. |
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| A2. | Conduct formal Incident and Hazard investigations and suggest remedial actions. |
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| A3. | Plan and act within the framework of food safety standards and good manufacturing practice. |
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| Unit Content: |
•Module 1: Legislative frameworks & Organisational compliance
•Module 2: The rights and responsibilities of employers and employees
•Module 3: Introduction to Risk Managment
•Module 4: Risk Management: Hazard Classification
•Module 5: Incident and Hazard Reporting
•Module 6: Risk Management: Hazards of Industrial waste
•Module 7: Quality Management Systems and ISO9001
•Module 8: Good Laboratory Practice
•Module 9: Good Manufacturing Practice
•Module 10: Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)
•Module 11: Working with Microorganisms
•Module 12: Working with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) |
| 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 the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3 | AT1: Retention, comprehension and application of knowledge of OHS and Quality control. | Quizzes (various question types) | 20 - 40% | | 2. | S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | AT2: Written task: A risk Management activity (Risk Assessment; Incident report; Workplace inspection; SOP) | Written Reports | 30 - 40% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3 | AT3: Assessed on knowledge, comprehension and synthesis of all unit content | Online test (various question types) | 30 - 50% |
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