Assignment 2 Question
You recently resumed a new position as the Safety, Health and Environment Director of a group of companies in the Northeast of the country. Three companies under this group are in the logistics and transport sector, the construction industry, and agriculture and fishery. These companies have performed poorly in terms of safety, health and environment and you have been tasked with the responsibility of addressing this. Given your position, the executive board has asked you for a detailed and fully referenced study evaluation document on what you plan to do. They expect to see a lot not limited to:
- An evaluation of Occupational Health, Safety and Quality Management Systems that you may consider using.
- A discussion of the key health and safety objectives and performance indicators within the organisation and others in the sector.
- A developed risk and safety management programme (including the education and training ones) based on the proceeding bullet point.
- An evaluation of common auditing systems and review procedures, their aims and application to health and safety programmes.
The Board expects you to start with the construction company in their portfolio. Therefore, the study evaluation will focus on the construction company. This company is a Tier 1 (large civil and building contractor) handling a multi-billion Pound shopping complex project, the biggest in the continent.
Your submission should be presented as a case study evaluation of 1800 words. You should ensure that the case study evaluation is fully referenced with a range of sources including technical guidance, legislation, standards and research material. The study evaluation should be structured and include an executive summary and a suitable action plan.
You are free to make any reasonable assumptions about the company and these should be included where appropriate as an appendix to the submission. You could situate this in a company you currently work for or a hypothetical company of your choosing.
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.
All assignments must be submitted electronically through Moodle (even where a hard copy is required by your local centre). There are several centres offering this programme so you must ensure you submit to the correct link or your assignment may not be marked.
Assessment Criteria
This assignment accounts for 60% of the module grade overall. The pass mark is 50%. 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:
- 10% – Introduction
- 30% – Content including relevance
- 35% – Critical evaluation, analysis and discussion
- 10% – Conclusion
- 15% – Referencing, structure and presentation
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
The submission date will be published on Moodle and will usually be approximately 12 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.
Plagiarism and Copying
Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. Plagiarism may be intentional or reckless, or unintentional. Under the University Regulations, intentional or reckless plagiarism is a disciplinary offence. We will ignore small matches associated with common phrases and terms and will ignore matches highlighted in your reference list when considering whether your work is plagiarised.
As a rule, you should aim to get your similarity score into the “green” zone on the Turnitin submission system. If you are in the “amber” zone you will need to look very carefully at your work to see what you can put into your own words to reduce your score. High amber scores may be referred to the plagiarism panel and will certainly mean that a significant part of your work will not be considered in the marking. If you are in the “red” zone you will be referred to the plagiarism panel. We strongly advise you to submit a final draft through Turnitin well before the cut-off date to check your similarity score. Please remember that you are only allowed to submit one draft version of your work every day so leave yourself plenty of time to revise and resubmit your final version of your assignment.