YEAR 12 ENGLISH COMMUNICATION 2017UNIT TWO: SAFE WORK PRACTICES (TEACHER SHEET)
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UNIT FOCUS: This unit focuses on examining the rights and responsibilities involved in workplace legislation such as discrimination, bullying and harassment. Students will gain an understanding of legislation relating to rights in the workplace in order to prepare them for their working life. Once students have gained this understanding, they will have a comprehensive knowledge of work practices that are safe and appropriate.
SAFE WORK PRACITCES UNIT
LEARNINGGOAL / SUCCESS CRITERIA / RESOURCES1.a) Discuss student experiences with safe workplace practices
b) Define key terms related to workplace environments.
c) Identify Workplace laws and breaches / Can I list a number of safe and unsafe work practices from other students’ experiences?
Can I remember the definitions of key terms?
Can I differentiate between safe and unsafe work practices?
Can I give examples of unsafe work practices? / G:\Coredata\Curriculum\ENGLISH\2015\YEAR 12\COMMUNICATION\UNIT 2- SAFE WORK PRACTICES\RESOURCES\RESOURCES\Safe Work Practices Resources\Glossary.doc
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2) Explain the importance of a Duty of Care for the Employer and Employee.
Identify the Rights and Responsibilities of the Employer and Employee in the workplace. / Can I remember the importance of Duty of Care for the Employer and Employee.
Can I list the Rights and Responsibilities of the Employer and Employee in the workplace. / G:\Coredata\Curriculum\ENGLISH\2015\YEAR 12\COMMUNICATION\UNIT 2- SAFE WORK PRACTICES\RESOURCES\RESOURCES\Safe Work Practices Resources\Rights and Responsibilities in the Workplace.ppt
3) Summarise the anti-discrimination legislation collaboratively and identify examples / Can I identify the main ideas from the anti-discrimination laws?
Can I give examples of breaches from this legislation? (eg: Race, Gender, Age,Disability) / A guide to Australia's anti-discrimination laws | Australian Human Rights Commission
4) Summarise the Anti-Discrimination legislation in pairs and identify examples. / Can I work with a partner to identify the main purpose of Anti-Discrimination legislation?
Can I identify what makes the Anti-Discrimination legislation important for workers and employers?
Can I give examples of breaches of the legislation in the workplace? / Protection from discrimination at work – Employee entitlements – Fair Work Ombudsman
5) Explain why:
a) it is important to have a safe working environment for both employers and employees.
b) It is important for young people to understand workplace legislation. / Can I write a PEEL paragraph to give reasons shy workplace legislation is important?
Can I relate my knowledge about workplace legislation to young people and convince them it’s important to know? /
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6) Identify breaches of workplace legislation and explain why these can be seen as breaches. / Can I locate the breaches of workplace legislation from video examples?
Can I locate breaches of Workplace Legislation from the written sources? / G:\Coredata\Curriculum\ENGLISH\2014\YEAR 12\12 COMMUNICATION\UNIT 2- Safe Work practices\RESOURCES\Unit 2 Workplace Legislation\Workplace Health and Safety Scenarios.doc
Show the last two chapters of Click View Video ‘ Know your rights at work’ which discusses Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Workplace Violence, Safety and Unfair Dismissal.
Show the Click View Video Workplace Health and Safety which covers the legislations very well and gives examples of breaches through various scenarios,
7) Explain how to address a breach of workplace legislation. / Can I identify the law that has been broken?
Can I locate the steps to take to report this breach in workplace legislation?
Can I follow the steps to take to report a breach? / Scenarios from last lesson
Personal safety incident reporting and support | Queensland Government
What is an incident :: Queensland's safety and workers' compensation services
Workplace harassment and bullying | Your rights, crime and the law | Queensland Government
8) Demonstrate your understanding of wrong work practices in regard to anti-discrimination, harassment and bullying legislation. / Can I identify wrong work practices from the examples given in class?
Can I identify the specific law broken?
Can I select the best example of bullying, anti-discrimination and harassment legislation? / Legal Studies Text Book.
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Page 5-8 of above link has some good scenarios for students to look at and discuss with a focus on workplace health and safety breaches.
9) Identify the assessment requirements for seminar on Safe Work Practices / Can I identify the key requirements for the Safe Work Practices task? / G:\Coredata\Curriculum\ENGLISH\2015\YEAR 12\COMMUNICATION\UNIT 2- SAFE WORK PRACTICES\ASSESSMENT\Unit 2 Safe Work Practices task sheet.doc
10) Start drafting for Safe work practices seminar identifying the key requirements involved / Can I draft for the Safe Work Practices seminar and easily locate information from unit work studied? / G:\Coredata\Curriculum\ENGLISH\2015\YEAR 12\COMMUNICATION\UNIT 2- SAFE WORK PRACTICES\EXEMPLARS\A Exemplar.doc
11)Continue drafting for Safe Work Practices Seminar / Can I continue to draft for Safe Work Practices Unit successfully? If no, I need to ask for help / G:\Coredata\Curriculum\ENGLISH\2015\YEAR 12\COMMUNICATION\UNIT 2- SAFE WORK PRACTICES\RESOURCES\RESOURCES\Safe Work Practices Resources\assessment handout.doc
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