CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

CENTRE FOR DIPLOMA STUDIES

UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA
WORKPLACE ASSESSMENT PROJECT
DAY10102 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
WORKPLACE ASSESSMENT
1. Select a workplace. This can be the whole workplace or a separate section of
workplace.
2. Identify at least six (6) safety and health hazard, including two (2) health hazards
at this workplace and discuss the techniques used to identify each of these
hazards.
3. Estimate the safety and health risks from each and every one of these hazards.
4. Priorities these hazards based on their risk rating and determine the most critical
safety and health hazards. List and arrange 6 of the hazards identified according to
the critical levels of risk.
5. Suggest and discuss the control measures to eliminate or reduce the risks of both
critical hazards.
6. Suggest recommendation of review program on control step mention in #5 to
ensure the effectiveness of managing the safety and health at the workplace.
REPORT FORMAT
1. Report shall be type in Bahasa Melayu or English.
2. The fonts used must be Times New Roman size 12 and using 1.5 spacing.
3. The left and right margins must be 2.5 cm, while top and bottom margin must be
3 cm and formatted in A4 sized paper.
4. The report must have standard front cover printed in blue color paper.
Students should prepare a report based on format given below
1. Abstract
a. A short summary of your assignment background, report objectives,
method used and result obtained, suggestions and control measures
recommended to benefit the safety and health at workplace.
(10 marks)
2. Introduction
a. Brief descriptions of workplace choose by your group. The description
must include the activities, work process, work environment and task
carried out at the workplace and hazard associated with the activities.
(10 marks)

3. Objective
a. State the objectives of the report.
(5 marks)
4. Method
a. Identify and explain three (3) methods used to identify safety and health
hazards at the workplace.
b. Explain in detail methods of risk assessment (risk estimation and risk
evaluation) on identified safety and health hazards. Use one sample each
for safety and health hazards respectively in the assessment.
(20 marks)
5. Result and Discussion
a. List at least six (6) hazards including two (2) health hazards.
b. Prioritize the hazard based on their risk rating. Rationalize your choice for
the most critical hazard (1 safety hazard and 1 health hazard)
c. Explain the impact of the most critical safety and health risks identified to
organization.
(20 marks)
6. Recommendation
a. Identify and explain in detail the proposed control measures (preventive
and corrective) for each critical safety and health hazards.
b. Identify and explain proposed review program on the effectiveness of the
proposed measures in subsection (a).
c. Discuss the benefits of the recommendation in subsection (a) and (b).
(30 marks)
7. References
a. List all references used in this report. Information such as authors name,
title, publisher and year should be stated. Example:
i. Book reference
Phil Hughes, Ed Ferrett, Introduction to Health and Safety
at Workplace, NEBOSH, Fourth Edition
ii. Website reference
OSHA. Personal Protective Equipment. OSHA 1994
http://www.osha.gov/oshpubs/perpro
Date: 9th January 2013
(5 marks)

PRESENTATION
1. Presentation will be based on your project and your knowledge in this subject
(DAY10102 Occupational Safety and Health). The presentation should contain
the following:
a. Introduction and objectives of report
b. Method
c. Findings and discussion
d. Recommendation
2. Presentation must use Microsoft Office Power Point.
3. Presentation will take 15 minutes each group (10 minutes for presentation and 5
minutes for Q&A).

NOTES
1. Report submission: Week 7
2. Please submit softcopy of report together with presentation slide to
nryati@uthm.edu.my
3. Presentation will be done on the date stated in #1.