The University will not accept responsibility for finding employment for students wishing to enrol for industrial experience subjects or to find employment in order to satisfy industrial experience requirements. Students are encouraged to seek their own industrial experience employment opportunities. The University's insurance coverage requires that all engineering students undertaking unpaid work experience to fulfil the industrial experience requirements of their course, should notify the relevant Industrial Experience Coordinator of their placement prior to starting work. The University's Insurance cover for Public Liability and Professional Indemnity extends only for a total of 12 weeks for students undertaking Industrial Experience. To be covered under the policy you must be fully enrolled as a student.
All insurance policies contain exclusions, conditions and excesses.
Insurance claims will therefore depend on the individual circumstances of each case. In addition, coverage is extended to sponsoring employers who accept students on work experience placement which is a specified course requirement. Workers' Compensation Insurance Students who are not being paid by the University in relation to work experience, including those completing their industrial experience within the University, are deemed not to be employees. They would therefore not be entitled to cover under Workers' Compensation Insurance by either the University or an alternative employer. The minimum period of industrial experience is 12 weeks.