School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Emergency & Crisis Management
  • Unit Code

    OHS6137
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Marcus CATTANI

Description

This unit provides practical learning experiences in the efficient and effective management of a variety of emergency situations that could occur in an occupational / industrial setting. Students explore risk analysis and control methodologies as well as strategies for the management of a disaster and the mitigation of impact. Of particular importance is the minimisation of reputational damage and business continuity after the event.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit is delivered online and as a consequence students wishing to enrol will need to have internet access.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded OHS5137

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop a business continuity policy and plan in the event of a emergency and/or disaster in relation to the OHS aspects.
  2. Develop a risk control program and action plan to manage a natural and/or industrial emergency and/or disaster.
  3. Evaluate and summarise the major legal requirements for managing major hazardous facilities in regards to a emergency and/or disaster.
  4. Identify, analyse and classify potential risks for natural and/or industrial events that may result in an emergency or disaster.

Unit Content

  1. Background on the key concepts of corporate risk management and developing business continuity policies and plans.
  2. Conducting a risk analysis for emergency management.
  3. Controlling and managing risks to minimise disasters due to natural and industrial events including natural, terrorist and biological hazards eg pandemics.
  4. Legal requirements for major hazard facilities.
  5. Preparing and implementing a disaster management plan.
  6. Using national and regional disaster management plans.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-line modules and reading materials which are supplemented with on-line tutorials.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportEmergency management plan40%
Assignment Emergency Risk Register 60%

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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