The implications of human and organisational attitudes towards risks and dangers have impacted the project

BSc Hons Occupational Safety, Health & Environment

Management of Risk (OMED 1161)

Assignment 1 Question

Your organisation just completed a huge pipeline project in the South of the country where you were the Health, Safety and Environment manager. In the project, where the new pipeline was installed for long-distance transportation of liquid and gas, the attitude of the employees towards risks and associated dangers remains poor. This is no different from the attitude of the Senior Management of the organisation. However, due to a recent letter from the health and safety regulatory authority where the organisation was warned and fined for a lot of incidents including accidents that show a poor safety culture, the shareholders board have asked you to produce a report on the safety culture at project and organisation level, using the recent about project as an example. In the report, they expect that you cover among many:

• The implications of human and organisational attitudes towards risks and dangers have impacted the project
• How a positive safety culture in the organisation can influence the implementation of harm reduction methods in the project and others.
• How to improve the safety culture of the organisation and how to ensure that the assigned roles and responsibilities therein are not just a tick box exercise.
• The connection between safety culture and good management.

In the shareholder board report, ensure that you discuss these broad categories and their application in the workplace and project. Feel free to make the relevant assumptions but they must be clearly started/outlined.

Your discussion should be in the form of a structured report of 1500 words with an executive summary, introduction, key headings, conclusion and recommendations. You will need to make reference to a broad range of published literature including guidance, standards and research. These sources must be referenced in your work using the Harvard system to support your discussion throughout.

General Instruction

You should research a range of reference materials including recent published research relating to the topic you are discussing. Journal articles on research can be found through the portal in the e-library using science direct, for guidance on accessing journals and eBooks online please refer to the accessing electronic resources guide on Moodle. The work is to be word-processed, double or 1.5-line spacing Arial or Calibri, 12 Font, aligned to the left hand of the page and appropriately referenced using the Harvard system. A word count must be included, and the assignment should be within +/- 10% of the word limit.

Assessment Criteria

This assignment accounts for 50% of the module grade overall. The pass mark is 40%. The final grade for the module is an aggregate of the grades achieved for assignment 1 and 2. It is not necessary therefore to pass both assignments to pass the module overall. It will be assessed using the criteria below:

• 45% - Content
• 25% - Critical evaluation including recommendations
• 15% - Structure and presentation
• 15% - Referencing

Feedback

Written feedback is provided on Moodle along with your grade breakdown. Please ensure you pay close attention to your feedback and email your course tutor should you require any further clarification on the points raised.

Submission

All work must be submitted electronically through Moodle using the submission link provided. The submission date will usually be approximately 6 weeks after the study school. Work submitted late will not be marked unless a formal extension of time has been granted. Please contact your course tutor if you cannot make the submission date.