Low risk category

Above-low risk category

Research which (a)involves no foreseeable risk of harm or discomfort

(b) is designed so that any

foreseeable risk is not more than an inconvenience.

Research, which may involve risk to participants of more than discomfort. This includes research that:

Examples:

Part I

Part II

1. The collection and use of material that is on public record or within the public domain
2. Research utilising existing collections of research data or records that contain only anonymous data.
3. Data from feedback surveys and quality assurance studies which only ask questions about a system, program, service or organisation under assessment and do not make comment on the individual recipients, clients, students or users
4. Research involving the use of standard tests and questionnaires administered appropriately to normal adult populations, and where data are recorded in such a manner that the participants are not

and cannot be identified

5. Research or evaluative procedures involving observation of public behaviour                            on unidentified participants, where data are recorded in such a manner     that

participants are not and cannot be identified

6. Research carried out in an educational setting using groups of participants, rather than individual participants and where data are recorded in such a manner that

participants are not and cannot be identified.

1. may cause discomfort, either physical, psychological or social beyond normal levels of inconvenience
2. uses intrusive techniques, including some personality assessment tests
3. examines potentially sensitive or contentious topics or themes, such as studies of body image or personal health habits
4. involves qualifying the conditions of consent, such as circumstances where the purpose of the study is not fully disclosed to participants

5. uses therapeutic techniques
6. involves secondary use of identifiable specimens or data collected for another study or purpose
7. involves the collection, use or disclosure        of identified personal, health or sensitive information without the consent of the individuals      in question
8. seeks disclosure of information that may be prejudicial to participants, for example, which has the potential to be incriminating
9. involves         any physical intervention     or removal of body fluids   or tissues,

such   as   blood   or 

urine               samples, biopsies

10. involves a fertilised human ovum
11. involves a clinical trial of any drug, therapeutic product or biomaterial
12. involves any stimuli, tasks, investigations or procedures which may be experienced by participants as stressful, noxious, aversive or unpleasant during or after the research procedures
13. involves  in    DNA ‘fingerprinted’, or have any other kind of uniquely identifying biological   marker recorded
14. uses     a highly vulnerable participant population, for example         -

intellectually disabled individuals, people who               have undergone trauma, psychologically disturbed individuals

15. involves animals in research procedures