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Unit Summary
Unit type
PG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Intermediate
Former School/College
Unit aim
Introduces participants to the emerging discipline of risk and resilience engineering. Participants will examine real-life case studies of crisis and disaster events in critical infrastructure, engineering, and asset management organisations.
Unit content
Safety and risk management
Resilience engineering
Social exchange theory
Adaptation
Mitigating human factors
Organisational culture issues
Developing appropriate management practices
Process safety
Discussion around standards such as ISO 55000 series and ISO 31000:2018
Just culture
Safety preparedness
Management commitment
Learning culture
Awareness and opacity
Flexibility
Safety culture and safety climate
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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| 1 | identify and critically discuss resilience engineering principles | |||||||
| 2 | identify, assess, and implement crisis and disaster mitigation initiatives | |||||||
| 3 | identify and critically analyse risk situations and demonstrate an in-depth understanding of how various theories, evaluation and processes tools can be used to mitigate process safety events | |||||||
| 4 | critically analyse and review the experiences of organisations embracing proactive process safety, and social exchange management strategies | |||||||
| 5 | critically explain the links between relevant theories and risk, resilience engineering management practices, and strategies for improving organisational effectiveness for crisis and disaster mitigation. | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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identify and critically discuss resilience engineering principles
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- GA4:
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identify, assess, and implement crisis and disaster mitigation initiatives
- GA1:
- GA2:
- GA4:
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identify and critically analyse risk situations and demonstrate an in-depth understanding of how various theories, evaluation and processes tools can be used to mitigate process safety events
- GA1:
- GA2:
- GA4:
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critically analyse and review the experiences of organisations embracing proactive process safety, and social exchange management strategies
- GA1:
- GA4:
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critically explain the links between relevant theories and risk, resilience engineering management practices, and strategies for improving organisational effectiveness for crisis and disaster mitigation.
- GA1:
- GA2:
- GA4:
Prescribed texts
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