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.

  • Unit Title

    Leadership in Workplace Health and Safety
  • Unit Code

    OHS6215
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Roberta SELLECK

Description

This unit provides a framework for leading the design and implementation of Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) systems and organisational culture development in an organisation. The Unit provides students with an understanding of organisation’s response to WHS legal obligations with a focus on the role of senior managers and senior WHS managers. The Unit provides an understanding of the benefit of linking operational and safety leadership to address the organisation’s risk profile.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Argue the importance of various workplace organisational culture models and their impact on workplace health and safety.
  2. Apply a leadership management framework to decrease the risk of incidents in workplaces.
  3. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of due diligence and corporate governance in relation to workplace health and safety
  4. Examine an organisational workplace health and safety risk profile to enable the development of an injury prevention strategy.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to workplace health and safety leadership.
  2. Core concepts of leadership.
  3. Organisational culture.
  4. Managing teams.
  5. Stakeholder engagement.
  6. Workplace health and safety management systems.
  7. Safety and health hazard management.
  8. Planning and performance measurement.
  9. Emergency management.
  10. Governance and due diligence.
  11. Occupational workplace health and safety leadership in practice.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-line modules, e-learning activities, tutorials and readings

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
ParticipationDiscussion of case studies and completion of weekly reflective questions10%
ProjectProject- Workplace safety leadership50%
TestOnline test40%

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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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.

  • Unit Title

    Leadership in Workplace Health and Safety
  • Unit Code

    OHS6215
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Roberta SELLECK

Description

This unit provides a framework for leading the design and implementation of Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) systems and organisational culture development in an organisation. The Unit provides students with an understanding of organisation’s response to WHS legal obligations with a focus on the role of senior managers and senior WHS managers. The Unit provides an understanding of the benefit of linking operational and safety leadership to address the organisation’s risk profile.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Argue the importance of various workplace organisational culture models and their impact on workplace health and safety.
  2. Apply a leadership management framework to decrease the risk of incidents in workplaces.
  3. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of due diligence and corporate governance in relation to workplace health and safety
  4. Examine an organisational workplace health and safety risk profile to enable the development of an injury prevention strategy.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to workplace health and safety leadership.
  2. Core concepts of leadership.
  3. Organisational culture.
  4. Managing teams.
  5. Stakeholder engagement.
  6. Workplace health and safety management systems.
  7. Safety and health hazard management.
  8. Planning and performance measurement.
  9. Emergency management.
  10. Governance and due diligence.
  11. Occupational workplace health and safety leadership in practice.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-line modules, e-learning activities, tutorials and readings

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
ParticipationDiscussion of case studies and completion of weekly reflective questions10%
ProjectProject- Workplace safety leadership50%
TestOnline test40%

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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