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Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity is about honest presentation of your academic work. It means acknowledging the work of others while developing your own insights, knowledge and ideas.

As a student, you are required to:

· undertake studies and research responsibly and with honesty and integrity

· ensure that academic work is in no way falsified

· seek permission to use the work of others, where required

· acknowledge appropriately the work of others

· take reasonable steps to ensure other students can't copy or misuse your work.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism means to take and use another person's ideas and or manner of expressing them and to pass them off as your own by failing to give appropriate acknowledgment. This includes material sourced from the internet, staff, other students, and from published and unpublished works.

Plagiarism occurs when you fail to acknowledge that the ideas or work of others are being used, which includes:

· paraphrasing and presenting work or ideas without a reference

· copying work either in whole or in part

· presenting designs, codes or images as your own work

· using phrases and passages verbatim without quotation marks or referencing the author or web page

· reproducing lecture notes without proper acknowledgement.

Collusion

Collusion means unauthorised collaboration on assessable work (written, oral or practical) with other people. This occurs when a student presents group work as their own or as the work of another person.

Collusion may be with another RTO student or with people or students external to the RTO. This applies to work assessed by any educational and training body.

Collusion occurs when you work without the authorisation of the teaching staff to:

· work with one or more people to prepare and produce work

· allow others to copy your work or share your answer to an assessment task

· allow someone else to write or edit your work (without RTO approval)

· write or edit work for another student

· offer to complete work or seek payment for completing academic work for other students.

Both collusion and plagiarism can occur in group work. For examples of plagiarism, collusion and academic misconduct in group work please refer to the RTO’s policy on Academic integrity, plagiarism and collusion.

Plagiarism and collusion constitute cheating. Disciplinary action will be taken against students who engage in plagiarism and collusion as outlined in RTO’s policy.

Proven involvement in plagiarism or collusion may be recorded on students’ academic file and could lead to disciplinary action.

Confidentiality

We will treat anything, including information about your job, workplace, employer, with strict confidence, in accordance with the law. However, you are responsible for ensuring that you do not provide us with anything regarding to your employer, colleagues and others, that they do not consent to the disclosure of. While we may ask you to provide information or details about aspects of your employer and workplace, you are responsible for obtaining necessary consents and ensuring that privacy rights and confidentiality obligations are not breached by you in supplying us with such information.

Assessment appeals process

If you feel that you have been unfairly treated during your assessment, and you are not happy with your assessment and/or the outcome as a result of that treatment, you have the right to lodge an appeal. You must first discuss the issue with your trainer/assessor. If you would like to proceed further with the request after discussions with your trainer/assessor, you need to lodge your appeal to the course coordinator, in writing, outlining the reason(s) for the appeal.

Recognised prior learning

Students will be able to have their previous experience or expertise recognised on request. Please contact your trainer/assessor for detail

Reasonable adjustments

Student with special needs should notify their trainer/assessor to request any required adjustments as soon as possible. This will enable the trainer/assessor to address the identified needs immediately. Please note, academic standards of the unit/course will not be lowered in order to accommodate the needs of any student but there is a requirement to be flexible in relation to the way in which it is delivered or assessed. The Disability Standards for Education requires institutions to take reasonable steps to enable the student with disability to participate in education on the same basis as a student without disability.

Unit outcome

· This unit is not graded and student must complete and submit all requirements for the assessment task for this cluster or unit of competency.

· Students will receive a 'satisfactorily completed' (S) or 'not yet satisfactorily completed (N) result for each individual unit assessment tasks (UATs).

· Final unit result will be recorded as competency achieved/competent (C) or competency not yet achieved/not yet competent (NYC).

Pre-requisite

Nil

Co-requisites

Nil

Required Skills & Knowledge

Skills and knowledge essential to performance in this unit, but not explicit in the performance criteria are listed here, along with a brief context statement.

SKILLS AND DESCRIPTION

Analytical skills to:

· identify areas for OHS risk improvement

· analyse relevant workplace or simulated workplace information and data

· contribute to the assessment of the resources needed to systematically manage OHS and, where appropriate, access resources

· attention to detail when making observations and recording outcomes

Research skills to:

· access relevant OHS information and data

Numeracy skills to:

· carry out simple arithmetical calculations (e.g. % change), and to produce graphs of workplace or simulated workplace information and data to identify trends and recognise limitations

Communication skills to:

· conduct effective formal and informal meetings and to communicate effectively with personnel at all levels of the organisation, OHS specialists and, as required, emergency services personnel

· prepare reports for a range of target groups including OHS committee, OHS representatives, managers and supervisors

· use language and literacy skills appropriate to the workgroup and the task

Consultation and Negotiation skills to:

· develop plans and to implement and monitor designated actions

Project management skills to:

· achieve change in OHS matters

Organisational skills to:

· manage own tasks within a timeframe

Information technology skills to:

· access and enter internal and external information and data on OHS and to use a range of communication media

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE:

Required knowledge for this unit is:

· organisational behaviour and culture as it impacts on OHS and on change

· basic physiology relevant to understanding mode of action of physical, biological and chemical agents on the body and how they produce harm

· basic principles of incident causation and injury processes

· characteristics, mode of action and units of measurement of major hazard types