School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Workplace Compensation and Injury Management
  • Unit Code

    HST3503
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Gregory Weng HO

Description

In this unit, students gain knowledge of workers’ compensation legislation and insurance in order to develop the skills required for managing injuries in the workplace. Students will learn how to plan, design, implement and evaluate injury management systems and workers' compensation processes. These skills can be used in a variety of industries across Australia and internationally.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

The off campus version of this unit is delivered fully online with all resources and materials accessed through the University Learning Management System.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed HST1160.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate contemporary occupational rehabilitation and workers’ compensation theories and practice to build professional competence in injury management.
  2. Apply contemporary occupational rehabilitation and workers’ compensation knowledge to develop a workplace rehabilitation programme.
  3. Communicate professionally and with competence, using appropriate verbal and non-verbal skills, to convey an understanding of occupational rehabilitation and workers’ compensation.

Unit Content

  1. Overview and history of workers' compensation.
  2. Introduction to injury management.
  3. Workers' compensation legislation.
  4. Workers' compensation insurance.
  5. Injury management process.
  6. Return-to-work programs.
  7. Effective case management.
  8. Workplace rehabilitation providers.
  9. Psychosocial work injuries.
  10. Compensation for Occupational Diseases

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

All students are provided with learning module notes with self-paced activities and case studies. On-campus students are instructed via face-to-face lectures and tutorials and guest lecturers. Online students will be supported via interactive online tutorials, recorded lectures and an online discussion board.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyWorkers' compensation and injury management case study.30%
PresentationPresentation of findings from a small business perspective40%
Group PresentationTeam-based debate on the ethics of an occupational illness issue30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyWorkers' compensation and injury management case study.30%
PresentationPresentation of findings from a small business perspective40%
Group PresentationTeam-based debate on the ethics of an occupational illness issue30%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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