Graduate Certificate in Safety Leadership
AQF LEVEL
AQF LEVEL 8 CRITERIA –
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE
PURPOSE
KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS
The Graduate Certificate qualifies individuals who apply a body of knowledge in a range of contexts to undertake professional/highly skilled work
and as a pathway for further learning.
Graduates of a Graduate Certificate will
have specialised knowledge within a
systematic and coherent body of
knowledge that may include the
acquisition and application of knowledge
and skills in a new or existing discipline or
professional area
Graduates of a Graduate Certificate will
have:
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cognitive skills to review, analyse,
consolidate and synthesise
knowledge and identify and provide
solutions to complex problems
cognitive skills to think critically and to
generate and evaluate complex ideas
Students undertaking the Graduate Certificate in Safety Leadership in the School of Humanities at
Griffith University will have:
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specialised knowledge of current ideas, theories, principles and views on safety accountability in
complex fields of practice
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have gained deeper insight into sociological and psychological mechanisms behind our reactions
to failure
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understand some of the legal constraints on the ability of organizations and countries to protect
the free reporting and flow of safety information
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have developed an ability to think critically about how to make progress on the creation of a just
culture (that prevents people’s “honest mistakes” from being seen as culpable) in their own
operating world and elsewhere
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learned to balance pressures for learning from failure with calls for holding those involved
accountable.
Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Safety Leadership will have:
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cognitive skills to analyse and relate project concepts and processes from a management
perspective using case studies
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cognitive and conceptual skills to examine project selection criteria and their integration with the
organisation's strategic objectives
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specialised technical skills to determine how the concepts of leadership affect the level of success
in Project Management
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Graduate Certificate in Safety Leadership
APPLICATION OF
KNOWLEDGE &
SKILLS
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specialised technical and creative
skills in a field of highly skilled and/or
professional practice
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communication skills to demonstrate
an understanding of theoretical
concepts
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communication skills to transfer
complex knowledge and ideas to a
variety of audiences
Graduates of a Graduate Certificate will
demonstrate the application of knowledge
and skills:
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to make high level, independent
judgements in a range of technical or
management functions in varied
specialised contexts
to initiate, plan, implement and
evaluate broad functions within
varied specialised technical and/or
creative contexts
with responsibility and accountability
for personal outputs and all aspects
of the work or function of others
within broad parameters
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communication and organisational skills to demonstrate how the management of scope,
resources and schedule impact on project success
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skills in professional judgement to determine the impacts of risk and its treatment on projects of
varying complexity including analysis of the cost, schedule concepts and interactions during the
Project Life Cycle.
Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Safety Leadership will have:

cognitive skills to analyse and relate project concepts and processes from a management
perspective using case studies

cognitive and conceptual skills to examine project selection criteria and their integration with the
organisation's strategic objectives

specialised technical skills to determine how the concepts of leadership affect the level of success
in Project Management

communication and organisational skills to demonstrate how the management of scope,
resources and schedule impact on project success

skills in professional judgement to determine the impacts of risk and its treatment on projects of
varying complexity including analysis of the cost, schedule concepts and interactions during the
Project Life Cycle.
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