PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING

FACULTY : Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

DEPARTMENT : Department of Civil Engineering Technology

COURSE (NAME AND CODE) : Occupational Safety and Health (BFC 4111)

SECTION : 1&2

TITLE OF PROBLEM : Incident Investigation & Report

DURATION OF PROBLEM : Seven Weeks

POSSIBLE INTEGRATION WITH OTHER COURSES: All Civil engineering courses from year one to year
four.

TOPIC’S LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. OUTCOMES
Knowledge & Skills Process
1. Occupational Safety & Health 1. Work in teams
2. Risk Assessment 2. Research and survey
3. Physical Injury Hazards and Controls 3. Learn independently
4. Incident Investigation. 4. Conduct oral presentation
5. NADOPOD 5. Submit report
6. Work with ethical manner

2. PROFILE OF STUDENTS
Program of Study : Bachelor of Civil Engineering with Honors
Year of Study : 4th Year
Numbers of Students : 109
Comments on Learning Abilities : Diploma levels

3. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

1. Knowledge and skill in Safety and Health
2. English Language
3. Writing skills
4. Presentation skills
5. Teamwork skills

4. NEW INTEGRATED LEARNING ISSUES

1. What is the theory will be used in order to solve the problems?
2. What is the procedure to calculate/develop risk assessment documents?
3. What is the relation between risk assessment and incident investigation?
4. What are the suitable documents in preparing the report?
5. PROBLEM STATEMENT

 The Scenario:
As the Safety and Health Officer for a construction company, you are assigned to coordinate the
investigation of a serious incident.
A day after the incident, you visited the incident scene and have the opportunity to look around and
meet with people who were present at the time.
A forklift has collided with a worker in the vicinity of the loading area. The injuries are quite serious
with latest reports indicating that the worker’s leg may need to be amputated. The details of the incident
remain sketchy but it appears that the worker walked into the path of the forklift as it travelled out of one of
the aisles between the sites. The forklift was carrying fully-loaded pallets of finishing brick with the load
being carried at around waist height.
You have established an investigation team consisting of key personnel within the organisation. You
are concerned about the comments of some team members who have suggested that one or more
individuals are to blame for the incident. You see this as an opportunity to draw the team together to
ensure that all team members have an understanding of this phase of the investigation.

 Tasks
1. Prepare briefing paper with importance outline:
 the importance of being open minded and objective;
 questioning techniques based on “why?” and “how?” rather than “what?”; and
 focusing on work systems rather than individual behaviors.

2. To achieve a high standard of health and safety within construction area, as well as compliance with
relevant legislation and approved codes of practice, it requires safety and health awareness and
culture by the employer and employees. Prepare an accident or incident report according to
OSHA 1994 or DOSH requirements based on the scenario given.

6. FILA TABLE
Facts Ideas Learning Issues Resources Needed /
Action Plan
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 1. What is the theory will be used in  Primary resource:
order to solve the problems? OSH textbook/
2. What is the formula to journals
calculate/develop risk  Site visit
assessment documents?
 Internet
3. What is the relation between risk
assessment and incident
investigation?
4. What are the suitable documents
in preparing the report?

7. ASSESMENT PLAN
Tool Individual/ Formative/Summative Weightage Assessed by
Group
Progress Group Formative 20% Lecturer
discussion(Proposal)
Group Written (Report) Group Formative and Summative 50% Lecturer
Presentation Group Summative 10% Lecturer
Peer Assessment Group Summative 10% Lecturer
Ethics (Behavior) Group Formative and Summative 10% Lecturer

8. FOLLOW-UP AFTER PROBLEM REVIEW

Action Taken : Reviewed by Dr. Ishak Baba
Followed Up by : OSH Lecturer
Date of Follow-up : 1 week after session

9. PROBLEM-CRAFTING PERSONEL
Name : Dr. Ishak Baba
Designation : Lecturer
Email : ishak@uthm.edu.my

Framework of Teaching Module for

PBL

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 Introduction

The Formation of
the Group

PBL Exploration

Assessment

PBL Exploration

Assessment

Conclusion and
Final Assessment
to Identify
Knowledge Skills
Gained by the
Students

End

Diagram of the Self Directed Learning for PBL

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 Introduction to the course outline

Discussion on the learning procedures

Week 1
Self / Group Learning

Formation of the groups

Group presentation / discussion on the content of the Week 2

course Self / Group Learning
Reflection
/ Peer Assessment

Getting into the trigger, developing FILA table

Week 3
Self / Group Learning
Reflection
Group discussion and identification of problem solving
Week 4 - 5
Self / Group Learning
Reflection

Group consultation and conclusion

Week 6
Self / Group Learning
Reflection
/ Peer Assessment

Week 7
(Final Week)
Presentation
Self / Group Learning
Reflection
/ Overall Assessment

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 UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA

PBL WORKBOOK

COURSE : OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

CODE : BFC 4111

NAME :

MATRIC NO. :

LECTURER :

Reflection on your past experience of learning

this COURSE or related COURSES

1. Primary school
____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

2. Secondary school

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

3. Other institution or courses

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

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 Weekly Reflection on Personal and Group Learning Experience

Week: _______
(Provide more copies according to the number of weeks)

Date: from ________________ to _________________

1. Reflect on your weekly learning experience.

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

2. Reflect on your group weekly activities / performance.

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

3. Overall Reflection on Learning Experience

(To be filled at the end of semester)

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________

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(Attach your own sheet if you need more space)

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 Working with FILA

Understanding four essential parts of problem solving approach called FILA is one of the critical
moments for the student’s learning process. FILA comprises of Fact, Idea, Learning issue and
Action plan. The lecturer would present the trigger to the students so that they could start to
identify the fact, idea, learning issue and the action plan from the given problem in the trigger.
The trigger could be in many forms. It could be in form of a picture, a movie, a quotation, a
model, an article and etc. It is up to the lecturer to present the most appropriate trigger related
closely to the learning outcomes of the course.

Facts

GIVEN INFORMATION
List as many facts from the trigger.

Ideas

HYPOTHESIS / OPINIONS
What comes out of your mind based on the Facts
List as many ideas as you can in order to manage the problem.

Learning Issues

WHAT ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW IN ORDER TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM

List the topics that you need to learn more in order to manage / solve the problem (Preferably in
question form).

Action Plan

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE FURTHER

List a plan or plans to show how, what and where you intend to seek the needed information (as
listed in “Learning Issues” in order to solve the problem.

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 Group Formation
Group Leader:

Group Secretary:

Group’s Name:

Group’s Logo

Group’s Motto

Group’s War Cry

Group’s Ground Rules

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

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 ASSESSMENT & MARKING SCHEME CRITERIA

Component Assessment Sub Criteria 1 2 3 4 Marks

Describing Idea Fails to describe the Describes the ideas but Describes the ideas Clearly describes the
ideas fully. mumbles. ideas
Conclusion No conclusions Conclusions are stated but The conclusion are The conclusions are
supporting information is drawn and described. drawn and described.
COGNITIVE SKILLS
Report not strong as 4 and 3.
(CLO 1, PLO 2)

Delivering Fails to deliver The delivery and sentence The delivery and The delivery is engaging
Sentence correctly structure are generally sentence structure are and sentence structure is
correct. generally correct. consistently correct.
Eye Contact Ignore of the eye Eye contact to audience Concern of eye Eye contact is made and
contact with audiences can be improved. contact with the sustained throughout the
audiences presentation.
Presentation ‘Chalk and talk ’ only. Only using slide of over Just presented with Present with multimedia
Tools head projector (OHP). Microsoft PowerPoint software that enhanced
only present with presentation
limited use of
COMMUNICATION multimedia
SKILLS Presentation
Confidence No confidence Lack of confidence The confidence level Presentation is full with
(CLO 2, PLO 3) sometime gone confidence
wobbly/unstable/shaky

Body language bad uses of body Suitable uses of body Good uses of body Excellent uses of body
postures and postures and movements, postures and postures and
movements, inert and shaky all the time movements, movements, smooth and
boring discontinue a little bit convincing
 Component Assessment Sub Criteria 1 2 3 4 Marks
Group Cooperation Members work in Some members of All members of group High level of cooperation
isolation group cooperate cooperate between all members of
group
TEAMWORK SKILLS
Peer
(CLO 3, PLO 5) Decision Responsibility for Responsibility for Responsibility for task All members shared
Responsibility group decisions is group decisions is not is shared by group responsibility for group
shirked (to avoid) always shared by decision
group
Professional Practice unable to state it able to state the able to give simple able to elaborate the
impacts of being explanation on the impacts of being
unethically to impacts of being unethically to
professional practice unethically to professional practice
MORAL & professional practice
PROFESIONAL Ethical Behavior unable to state it able to state an able to give simple able to give specific
ETHIC Behavior
unethical behavior in explanation to the explanation to the
(CLO 3, PLO 8) the organization unethical behavior in unethical behavior in the
the organization organization
Decision Making Has difficulty making Able to make minor Is able to make major Is able to make major
decisions decisions decisions decisions with rationale

Total

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 Course Learning Outcome (CLO), Delivery and Assessment Template

Faculty: FACULTY OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Programme: BACHELOR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING WITH HONORS
Course: OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
Code: BFC 4111 / BFC 43501

Compliance to PLO
LO LO LO LO LO LO LO LO LO Key Performance
No Course Learning Outcomes Delivery Assessment
-1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 Indicators
Lecture, Students are able to
Apply an occupational safety and / continuous Assignment, apply and describe
health programmed in
1 learning, Report, Final the topic given. 80%
construction industry with
C3 discussion and Exam achieving grade C
proper training and above
project
Lecture,
Operate under supervision policy / Reports are clear,
continuous Discussion,
of occupational safety and correct and well
2 learning, Project Report,
health in construction project presented.
P3 discussion and Final exam
concisely Documentation
project
according to
Lecture, explanation. 100 %
/ Project
Initiate report on accident or continuous pass on project.
submission,
3 incident according to OSHA 1994 learning, 80% achieving
presentation,
or DOSH requirements A3 discussion and grade C and above
and final exam
project
Total 1 1 1