Unit 3 Science & Materials, Higher National Diploma in Construction and Civil Engineering
Assignment Title - Health Safety and Welfare. Storage Handling and use of materials on a construction site. Environmental and Sustainability Factors that impact on material choices for a construction project.
Learning Outcome 1: Review health and safety regulations and legislation associated with the storage, handling and use of materials on a construction site.
Learning Outcome 2: Discuss the environmental and sustainability factors which impact on and influence the material choices for a construction project.
Assignment Brief:
Brief and Guidance: A broad knowledge of health and safety legislation that affects the construction industry, together with an appreciation of the significance of Guidance Documents and Approved Codes of Practice that may accompany the legislation is a basic requirement to ensure an individual's ability to effectively manage storage, handling and use of materials in the workplace.
Task 1. Explain how health, safety and welfare regulations and legislation impacts on the manual handling, use and storage of vocationally typical construction materials on site.
Task 2. Assess how risk assessments can be used to address significant hazards posed by selected materials or activities.
Task 3. Explain how multiple regulations and legislation would apply to a given site activity, highlighting how to plan and manage for safe handling and use. From your own experience at work preferably on a Construction Site point of view, write a short case study (example) of how a certain activity on site is dealt with regarding Health and Safety regulations and legislations and how they are covered, planned and managed for safe handling and use.
A 15-minute verbal presentation, including slides (using PowerPoint or similar presentation software). There will be 5-10 minutes of questions and answers to follow and you are expected to be able to respond to questions with reference to your research, making use of slides to support your answers.
In addition, you should prepare a set of presentation notes for distribution to your audience, prior to the presentation. These notes should highlight ‘key points' from your presentation. These should NOT be printouts of the presentation slides, but edited to provide the audience with information to support their understanding of your presentation and to facilitate their questions after.
Task 4. Explain material environmental profiling and life cycle assessment. Use a relevant material to exemplify your explanation. Produce a waste management plan for a given project, incorporating a typical range of relevant waste materials. Illustrate how the use of sustainable practices and considerations for material choice can improve the environmental rating of a completed building.
Task 5. Discuss the benefits of product declaration and environmental certification. Evaluate how the use of passive or active strategies can minimise energy, materials, water, and land use.
Task 6. Assess the effects of loading structural materials and compare the behaviours and performance of materials which could be used for the same function.
You are encouraged to make use of images, graphics, drawings and other research material in support of your presentation. Any material that is derived from other sources must be appropriately referenced using a standard form of citation.
The final page(s) of your presentation notes should include a bibliography of any texts used in support of your research. This is to be presented according to an academic standard reference format.
The submission comprises two related items:
A 15 - minute verbal presentation, including slides (using PowerPoint or similar presentation
software). There will be 5 - 10 minutes of questions and answers to follow and you are expected to be able to respond to questions with reference to your research, making use of slides to support your answers.
2. In addition, you should prepare a set of presentation notes for distribution to your audience, prior to the presentation. These notes should highlight ‘key points' from your presentation. These should not be printouts of the presentation slides, but edited to provide the audience with information to support their understanding of your presentation and to facilitate their questions after.
You are encouraged to make use of images, graphics, drawings and other research material in support of your presentation. Any material that is derived from other sources must be appropriately referenced using a standard form of citation.