1. Student name: ………………………………………….…. Course of study: (Please tick)  National Award (pt)  National Award (ft)  Extended Diploma (ft) Unit 1 Health, Safety and Welfare in Construction and the Built Environment. Assignment Number 3 Accident reporting Date of issue : w/c 24 th March 2015 To be submitted by:13 th May 2015 This assessment provides an opportunity to complete the criteria described in the shaded boxes below. Please refer over the page for the assessment tasks you will need to do to satisfy the criteria identified. Signed: Date: Tutor S igned: Date: IV pre-issue Signed: Date: IV post-assessment Please turn over for assessment tasks…….. Tutor Dennis Edwards Identify and describe the roles and responsibilities of the persons responsible for health, safety and welfare on a construction project. P1 Identify three main pieces of health, safety and welfare legislation relevant to the construction and built environment sector and describe the legal duties of employees and employers in terms of such legislation P2 Identify and describe a range of hazards present in a given workplace situation, the persons who may be at risk, and the possible consequences for such persons. P3 Identify and describe the main principles and features of a typical risk assessment for a given workplace situation. P4 Select control measures for a given workplace situation to reduce risks and meet legal requirements. P5 Identify and describe the role of the individual in accident recording and reporting procedures. P6 Explain how members of the building team interact in terms of their health, safety and welfare roles and responsibilities. M1 Perform a typical risk assessment for a given workplace situation using a suitable format. M2 Explain how collecting accurate data and information on accidents and incidents contributes to improvements in health, safety and welfare in the workplace. M3 Justify the contents of a risk assessment, in terms of available accident data and what is ‘reasonably practicable’. D1 Evaluate a provided accident report and suggest improvements that could be made to workplace systems in the future to avoid a recurrence. D2 Authenticity; I certify that the work I have submitted for this assessment is entirely my own and that all other material has been properly referenced. Signature;………………………………………………………………………… name;…………………......................................................................……… Date;………………………….

2. Course:National AwardCohort Unit:1Unit Code: Assignment Ref:1IV Brief Date: Issue Date:21 sth September, 2009 Submission Date20 th May, 2010 Grading Criteria: Achieved Assessor Feedback P6 Yes / No M3 Yes / No D2 Yes / No Learner Action Plan (To be completed by Learner with Assessor): Agreed return date: Tutor: Date: Learner: Date: Formative/Summative Assessment Feedback Sheet F ¨ S ¨

3. SCENARIO A local businessman has recently won a contract to export historic English stone buildings to Japan for reconstruction as clubhouses on golf courses. You have been approached to provide the health and safety consultancy role on site during the dismantling. The first property is a simple stone building which must be taken down, piece by piece, and stored on pallets prior to shipping. The roof has already been removed, except for the oak roof trusses which are also being shipped. The wall is approximately 250 mm thick and the stones range in weight from 15 to 55 kg. On site will be the masons dismantling the building and the demolition crew taking down the rest of the structure (floors, internal walls, etc.). The masons on site have never undertaken such work before. During the course of the works, one of the stonemasons – John - was injured when a pallet of stone fell on to his leg. This resulted in him requiring hospital treatment for his injuries and being off work for a further eight days. There were a number of operatives in the vicinity of the accident and the following day the site manager spoke to all those who had seen something. Their comments can be seen below. Witness 1: Keith, a stonemason I’d turned around to pick up me mallet. Gary shouted, asking if we wanted more pallets. I answered him and then heard a loud noise followed by a scream. I turned to see John laid on the scaffold with three or four large chunks of stone on his leg. I immediately started to move the stone to release his leg. I shouted down to Gary to call an ambulance and they took him to hospital. Witness 2: Roger, a general operative I was working on the lift below, putting in extra tubes on the scaffold to take the hoist when I heard a scream from above. By the time I had got up there Keith had moved the stones and was talking to John, who was laid on the scaffold. I could see blood on his legs and he was very white. Witness 3: Gary, a general operative I had just asked Keith if he wanted anything else on the scaffold, as I was going off-site for a while. As I was talking I heard a loud crash and a scream. I could see stones had fallen on to John and his leg was a right mess. I called an ambulance right away and they came in a few minutes and took him to hospital. I reckon the stone wasn’t stacked right, as they had a new lad up there. Witness 4: Sean, a general operative I’d put some stone on to a pallet and gone round the corner for a brush. I was jumping up and down on the scaffold trying to get the boards flat. Then I heard a scream from around the corner and I ran back to see John on the floor and Keith lifting stones off him. I went to help but I couldn’t do anything. I was concerned that it might be my fault for jumping, and I was stacking the stone before. Accident victim statement, taken by the site manager over the phone three days after the accident from John, a stonemason We had just put another piece of stone on the top of the pallet which was ready for lifting down. It was a bit wobbly so I asked the lad to go and get some wrap before we lifted it. I was stood next to the pallet and all of a sudden like, it wobbled and half a dozen pieces fell. I couldn’t get out of the way quick enough and stumbled, and as I went down a couple of larger pieces fell on to my leg, cutting and bruising it. Thankfully there was no blood on the stone. I’m not sure what happened - it was all so quick.

4. Following the accident, the site returned to work. You were on site but not at the scene of the accident. In your role as trainee site manager you were not sure what to do and the site manager was off-site at the time. You wrote down what happened in your site diary, but left it at that. The local Health and Safety Executive office have got to know about the incident and have visited the site. You have given all the information you have and the HSE officer has given the company a warning over lack of training for junior members of the firm. TASK 1 (P6) Owing to a lack of specific training material on the reporting of accidents, your company has asked you to produce a document on how to record and report accidents and ‘near misses’ on site. You must consider what incidents to report and to whom, both within the company and the external authorities. TASK 2 (M3) Your site manager is poor at keeping accurate records and this accident is just one example. He believes that ‘accidents happen’ and there is nothing you can do to stop that. However, during your research for the training document you feel that there is a need to keep accurate information, and that through analysis of available data you can reduce accidents. You have decided to produce a ‘toolbox talk’ training session for a lunch break on site. You are to produce a short presentation, detailing how accurate accident data collection can help to reduce accidents and contribute to future legislation to improve health and safety on site. TASK 3 (D2) Following the accident it is necessary to review how the works are to proceed. Analyse the witness statements above and produce a detailed system of works which will ensure that no further accidents of this nature happen again.