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Assessment 1 - Reflective Assignment
The second assessment task for this unit is a reflective assignment. This is an individual assignment of approximately 2000 words and is based on your experience during the scenario. You must discuss and analyse what you have leamed about public health and the role of different stakeholders and interest groups in a public health event along with the general role of the community in professional practice. The focus of the assignment is to show your deepening understanding of ublic health practice and to consider your experiences in the larger context of community engagement. It is not enough to just describe what you did in the scenario; you must show that you have reflected on the experience and have tried to understand in the context of your own learning.
Assessment 2 INDIVIDUAL REPORT - BRIEFING PAPER
This individual assessment task builds on your group assessment topic to develop a formal briefing report You will imagine you are working as a public health advisor for your Department of Health, and write the report addressing the following:
1. Brief background, including causality and burden from a public health perspective. With a focus on your chosen population to provide context.
2. Describe key issues to consider, Including resourcing, control measures, operational issues
3. Identify key stakeholders across disciplines. cornrnunity(ies), public and private sectors. Describe their roles in the response.
4. Identify and describe potential challenges to responding to the issue.
5. Based on these findings, make recommendations to improve the response, including strategic, advocacy, operational, policy and (potentially) legislative implications from a public health perspective.
Key points:
• Read the Assessment Instructions carefully. Contact the Unit Coordinator or your Lecturer with any questions.
• Use the Briefing paper template. Remove the Instructions. Insert your Student details. Complete each section (do not change or remove the
Headings).
• Refer to the Assessment marking rubric - this will help guide your focus and that you have addressed all the important criteria
• This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment: you may not work together with your classmates to write the review
There are no exemplars provided for this Report. The marking rubric and Briefing paper template will guide your work (in addition to the Unit content throughout this term).
Choosing the literature to include in your assignment is important. Only peer-reviewed scholarly material or grey literature should be used. Journal articles are often more relevant than books due to the long lead time between the writing and publication of books and because journals are often the forum where the latest thinking on a topic appears. You should also include relevant grey literature such as AIHW reports or ABS data and reports to support your arguments.
ASSIGNMENT 3 - RISK MANAGEMENT
Part A: Adopt a risk management tool
Choose a risk management tool - see resources in Mole for a sample of toolS.
1. Research and provide substantiation regarding the tool's authenticity and validity, including its origins, development within relevant standards and literature. and its use within various industry domains(FB1). Provide links between the tool and applicable WHS legislation relating to its use (e.g: The PerForm Manual Tasks Assessment tool is used to help manage health and safety risks as-sing from manual tasks. as prescribed in Hazardous Manual Tasks in 'Part 4.2 Hazardous manual tasks' from the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011).
Provide an explanation of how the tool could be used to address specific physical or psychosocial nsks how, when and why the tool is
to be used).
Part B: Training in the use of the tool
1. Slate how training and instruction for individuals and parties who will use the risk management tool can occur.
2. Provide two samples 0.e.. PPT slides. Training register. Training plans, etc).
Part C: Conduct a risk assessment using the tool selected In Part A
Conduct a detailed risk assessment using the risk management tool selected in Part A.
The topic and tool for the risk assessment will need to be specific (specific title and defined problem). As an example. a topic name such as 'noise or 'heat stress' will not be sufficient but Noise Survey in Sheet Metal Workshop' or 'Heat Stress Risks for Maintenance Work on Roofs'
would be more suited as a title.
Topics may be drawn from any of the following classes hazard groups:
• Chemical
• Noise
• Light
• Radiation
• Dusts and fibres
• Gases
• Gravity
• Mechanical
• Thermal environment
• Psychosocial hazards
• Work organisation
• Ergonomic
• Psychosocial
• Radiological
• Biological
• Plant
• Electrical.