a assignment about safety system and risk analysis

ENGG5103 Safety Systems & Risk Analysis

Assignment 3 – Incident Investigation Exercise

Report Due: 2pm Thursday, Week 13.

Submit report via E-Learning

Time to complete: This assessment task should take the average group of TWO students approximately

10-15 hours to complete (total work hours).

Late Penalty: As for all other assessment tasks for this course, late penalties are 20% of the maximum

possible mark per day or part thereof. Weekends and public holidays are not included.

Submission: Online via Blackboard and Turnitin, submissions will be checked for potential academic

dishonesty/plagiarism

Task Description: Incident Investigation Exercise – Groups of 1 or 2 ONLY!

You and a colleague (or just yourself if you wish) are (hypothetically) acting as safety coordinators for a

multistorey construction site in Sydney, NSW. You have been notified that a serious incident involving

three workers and a crane lifting scaffolding material has just occurred on site. One of the workers has

reportedly been trapped under a load of construction material and an ambulance has been called.

You have been tasked with investigating the incident starting immediately, with a formal report to be

submitted in three weeks’ time to company management:

1. Determine and describe the list of actions you would take over the three-week period of time to

investigate and determine the cause(s) of the incident and explain why you think the actions are

necessary

2. Generate a sequential (chronological) timeline of these planned actions across the three weeks

(15 working days)

3. Write a report explaining the results/findings of your investigation into the incident

a. What occurred during the incident

b. What was the likely cause of the incident

c. Your recommendations to avoid similar repeat incidents

Note: Further information related to the incident will be released sequentially over the next two weeks:

• Week 11: Tuesday and Friday 5pm

• Week 12: Wednesday 5pm

Assessment Grading

This report will be assessed according to a number of aspects:

• Suitability, description/explanation and completeness of the list of actions you propose

• Logical timeline of actions

• Description of the incident (in your own words)

• Discussion of likely cause(s) of the incident

• Suitability/completeness of recommendations to avoid repeat incidents

• Overall format and structure of the report; including readability, grammar, spelling,

professionalism etc.