Examines safety compliance at event facilities and venues and how a public event enterprise is designed and operated, and the policies and procedures managers use in operations to maintain facilities to a pre-determined standard of safety. Provides students with the ability to analytically apply the processes of Hazard Management used in Convention, Exhibition and Special Event management. This is achieved by critical analysis and synthesis of recent academic research and innovative industry best practice applied to case study of an event presenting venue.
Unit contentThis unit contains 11 topics: hazard recognition workplace environmental hazards, hazardous equipment and substances ergonomics and safe design psychosocial hazards hazard control processes audience management and crowd control site and venue traffic management OH&S management systems incident reporting procedures emergency protocols.
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.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
|On completion of this unit, students should be able to:||GA1||GA2||GA3||GA4||GA5||GA6||GA7|
|1||Critically analyse and evaluate the significance of the safety issues within the events industry both nationally and internationally||Knowledge of a discipline|
|2||Analyse and synthesise key safety concepts, theories, planning processes and criteria to be considered in the planning, organising and staging and management of special events||Creativity||Ethical practice||Knowledge of a discipline|
|3||Analyse and evaluate approaches taken to managing hazards and emergencies at public events||Ethical practice||Knowledge of a discipline|
|4||Develop venue and facility condition reports for an event venue in order to maintain a pre-determined standard in safety, serviceability and OH&S compliance.||Creativity||Ethical practice||Knowledge of a discipline|
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
|Structured online learning 2 hours (1,3,5,7,9,11)|
|Exam: closed book||50%|
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Commencing 2014 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 3
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