Risk Assessment Report for The Meadow, Gardens by the Bay Event

Learning Outcomes

 Table of Contents, Reference List or Appendices Business report format Learning Outcomes CLO1: Analyse and apply the key concepts underpinning contemporary WHS theory, systems and practice within organisational contexts. CLO3: Investigate and evaluate risk management principles and frameworks. CLO4: Communicate WHS data and concepts to professionals and non-professionals in diverse contexts Rubric/ Marking Criteria The Rubric below details the marking criteria for each grade level. Feedback will be provided through the rubric and written comments. Details of the range of grades awarded is in the last page of the Course Guide. You may request a review of an assessment result or appeal a final course grade in accordance with the Conduct of Assessment and Appeals section of the Assessment processes. Further details regarding the review of assessment are detailed in Other Relevant Information in the Course Guide Task You are a risk assessment consultant hired by The Big Event company to prepare a risk assessment report for a forthcoming event at The Meadow, Gardens by the Bay. (Links to an external site.) The Big Event provides the infrastructure (staging, lighting, sound and special effects) and personnel for major events including stage shows, concerts, conferences and festivals. This means that workers are constantly operating in new and often previously unknown environments, both indoors and outside. Activities derive from various industries such as construction, electrical trades and joinery, and range from stage construction through lighting and sound ?t out and operations to the provision of special effects where required. The Big Event workforce is made up of carpenters, electricians, audio-visual specialists, other trades and IT personnel, as well as unskilled workers. A number of the unskilled workers are recent migrants with poor English language skills. There are also a number of these workers who have limited literacy and numeracy. Following a routine visit and advice from a Workplace Safety and Health Council inspector, the company decided to upgrade its WHS procedures and implement a comprehensive risk management program. You have been asked to prepare a report on the following matters relating to an event at The Meadow, Gardens by the Bay. Your report must address the following: Identify the main plant, chemical and biological hazards likely to be found at events conducted at The Meadow, Gardens by the Bay Assuming no controls are in place at The Meadow, Gardens by the Bay, assess the risk in relation to: the two highest-risk plant hazards; the two highest-risk chemical hazards; coronavirus; and the highest-risk biological hazard other than coronavirus. Assess the risks in relation to the six hazards. Justify your answer. Decide on appropriate control measures to reduce the risk of each of the hazards. Use the hierarchy of controls when selecting your controls. When you have decided on the controls, reassess the risk and decide whether the new risk rating is acceptable. Check whether the risk ratings conform to the ALARP principle. Is it cost-effective to introduce these controls? Is the risk too great not to implement them? Include recommendations in your report. Include a table which indicates your assessment of the likelihood (A-E in Table 6.3 of Archer et al. 2018 (Links to an external site.)), consequences (1-5 in Table 6.2 in Archer et al. 2018) and total risk rating (low, medium, high, very high in Table 6.4 in Archer et al. 2018) for each hazard, with and without your recommended controls. That is, you need to determine the likelihood, consequences and total risk rating for each hazard when no controls are used, and then reassess when the controls are implemented to see if the risk would be reduced. Include your recommended controls in the table. Develop a brief plant-purchasing policy for future plant purchases. In writing the policy, refer to the pre- and post-purchasing tips on page 135 of Archer et al. (2018). The policy must be written in your own words, not simply cut-and-pasted from Archer et al. When identifying, assessing and recommending controls for chemical hazards, you must use relevant safety data sheets for each chemical hazard. all hazards, you must use relevant guides, standards or codes of practice for the event management industry, where possible. Use Singapore materials & resources where possible; otherwise you must source them from another jurisdiction or jurisdictions. There are relevant materials available online on the event management industry from safety authorities in Europe, UK and several Australian states. Ensure all ideas and material in the report derived from sources are appropriately referenced. The safety data sheets must be referenced in-text and listed in your list of references in Harvard referencing style (Links to an external site.). Include URL links to the safety data sheets in your list of references. Do not include PDFs or other images of the safety data sheets in your assignment or as appendices. Essential sources: Safety data sheets. WSH Council (Singapore) 2015, ‘Code of practice on workplace safety and health (WSH) risk management’, Second Revision, WSH Council and Ministry of Manpower, Singapore. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.) Archer et al. 2018, WHS: A Management Guide, 5th edn, Cengage Learning, Australia (Links to an external site.). Chapter 6, ‘Identifying hazards and managing risk’ Chapter 7, ‘Managing hazards associated with plant’. Guidance material on safety in the events management industry from the health and safety regulator in one or more jurisdictionexternal site.) This case was adapted from Archer, Richard, et al. WHS: A Management Guide, Cengage,2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit (Links to an external site.). 112 (Created from rmit on 2020-12-02 ) Guidelines on how to read scholarly journal articles: How to read a Scholarly Journal Article Reading Academic Articles -RMIT SLH How to Read Academic Articles by IUP Analysing an argument in a text Guidelines on critical thinking Becoming a critical thinker Developing a critical approach Submission Instructions Electronic submission: guidelines (Links to an external site.) for submission of the assignment can be found through this link (Links to an external site.) Format: This assignment must be submitted as a Word document in Report format. Report structure: This checklist (Links to an external site.) has required features - an Executive Summary is not required. Title page with the title of the report, course name, student name and number, tutor’s name, and tutorial day and time. Include a Table of Contents with numbered headings and sub-headings Before you submit your assignment undertake the following: Keep a back-up copy of all work on a device other than your computer in case you experience computer problems. Use the Study Support Hub (Links to an external site.) and Ask the Library (Links to an external site.) to check your assignment meets the criteria Reference check – check that you have applied the RMIT Harvard (Links to an external site.) (or Harvard if you are using EndNote) referencing style Check for plagiarism and similarity through Turnitin (Links to an external site.). You can submit your paper multiple times through Turnitin. 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