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CON5023 - Project Planning Ethics and Safety Control

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module will look no further than the technical, design challenges, environmental, and human factors in establishing why the construction industry is considered the most dangerous despite the heavy legal and financial penalties for those who breach the law. The classification of construction activity will reveal patterns in the anatomy of site accidents and the combative safety legislation, its application and how it is enforced. Consideration of the relationship between safety, design and the early involvement of project managers reinforces the legacy of the EU Safety Directives and the 2015 CDM regulations. A deeper examination of the role and transformative nature of corporate slogans such as ‘zero harm’ workplace cultures is examined. Case studies of site accidents will reveal an absence of leadership in having in place management systems for risk assessments. The module will also include the role of HSE concerning training, inspectorate obligations, and the doctrines it uses when targeting persistent offenders and leading prosecutions. The solutions, it would appear, rest with forward-planning. The benefits of adopting 4D construction planning and simulation packages allow construction and project managers to do some planning at the preconstruction stages. The module is a mandatory pathway for all built environment professionals and has been aligned to the QAA benchmarks statements and the educational frameworks of the PSRBs - RICS & CIOB’s chartered status assessments.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures - Seminars
Hours: 2h X 10 weeks = 20
Intended Group Size: All cohorts

Workshops - Tutorials
Hours: 2h X 5 weeks = 10
Intended Group Size: 20

Practical Simulations
Hours: 2h X 5 sessions = 10
Intended Group Size: 20

Guided independent study
Hours: 260



Further Details Relating to Assessment

001: 2 MCQs Phase Tests
002: Unseen Examination

Please note that The Chartered Institute of Building – CIOB - and The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – RICS - professional bodies require students to achieve a pass mark in all assessed components, as this module carries Mandatory competences for the QS Pathway.

Further details of assessment are available in the Assessment Handbook for your programme and in Assessment Briefs provided by Module Tutors.

Assessment:

Fact File

Module Coordinator - PRS_CODE=
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered -