School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Risk Management
  • Unit Code

    HST2145
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Sally-Anne Jonathyn DOHERTY

Description

Risk management is the foundation of effective organisational practice and contemporary legislation. A sound understanding of risk management is fundamental to many professional disciplines, including occupational health and safety, and environmental health. In this unit students will develop the skills required to follow a systematic process to manage occupational health, safety and environmental risk. Students learn the skills to assess risks using a variety of tools, investigate effectiveness of controls, formulate priorities and devise practical solutions to enhance the management of risk.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass either HST1152 or OHS3404

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST2144

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the risk assessment process to occupational health, safety and environmental hazards.
  2. Analyse incident causation to reduce occupational health, safety and environmental risk.
  3. Communicate strategies to improve the management of risk to stakeholders.
  4. Describe the requirements of an incident investigation and emergency management process.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to occupational health and safety risk management.
  2. Introduction to the risk management standard.
  3. Incident causation and investigation process.
  4. Communication and consultation.
  5. Establish the context.
  6. Risk identification.
  7. Risk analysis.
  8. Risk evaluation.
  9. Risk treatment.
  10. Monitoring and review.
  11. Risk management in practice.
  12. Emergency management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students become familiar with the risk identification and management process to develop a blend of strategies to communicate improvements to a professional audience. Fundamental written and oral communication skills will be further developed to build competence in incident investigation and emergency management processes whilst also building competence in digital literacy skills by researching current issues. In this unit students also have the opportunity to engage with guest speakers and industry experts.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentBriefing note on risk management process20%
ReportIncident causation, investigation and management 40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentBriefing note on risk management process20%
ReportIncident causation, investigation and management 40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Risk Management
  • Unit Code

    HST2145
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Sally-Anne Jonathyn DOHERTY

Description

Risk management is the foundation of effective organisational practice and contemporary legislation. A sound understanding of risk management is fundamental to many professional disciplines, including occupational health and safety, and environmental health. In this unit students will develop the skills required to follow a systematic process to manage occupational health, safety and environmental risk. Students learn the skills to assess risks using a variety of tools, investigate effectiveness of controls, formulate priorities and devise practical solutions to enhance the management of risk.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass either HST1152 or OHS3404

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST2144

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the risk assessment process to occupational health, safety and environmental hazards.
  2. Analyse incident causation to reduce occupational health, safety and environmental risk.
  3. Communicate strategies to improve the management of risk to stakeholders.
  4. Describe the requirements of an incident investigation and emergency management process.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to occupational health and safety risk management.
  2. Introduction to the risk management standard.
  3. Incident causation and investigation process.
  4. Communication and consultation.
  5. Establish the context.
  6. Risk identification.
  7. Risk analysis.
  8. Risk evaluation.
  9. Risk treatment.
  10. Monitoring and review.
  11. Risk management in practice.
  12. Emergency management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students become familiar with the risk identification and management process to develop a blend of strategies to communicate improvements to a professional audience. Fundamental written and oral communication skills will be further developed to build competence in incident investigation and emergency management processes whilst also building competence in digital literacy skills by researching current issues. In this unit students also have the opportunity to engage with guest speakers and industry experts.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentBriefing note on risk management process20%
ReportIncident causation, investigation and management 40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentBriefing note on risk management process20%
ReportIncident causation, investigation and management 40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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