Course Name: Industrial Placement II

Course Code: TCIP-II 247

Course Level: Year 2 Semester 2

Contact hours: 350

Credit Units: 7

 

Rationale:

Industrial  placement  refers  to  work  experience  done  during  the  program  of  study  that  is  relevant  to  professional development.    The  fundamental  objective  of  Industrial  Training  is  to  prepare  students  for  future  employment. Industrial  placement  enhances  the  academic  material  studied  at  the Institute  by  allowing students to practice what they have learned and to develop key professional attributes.  Industrial training should provide an opportunity for students to:

·         Experience the discipline of working in health and safety

·         Interact with other professional and non-professional groups

·         Develop technical, interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written

·         Industrial training also gives employers an opportunity to assess future employees.  A demonstrated commitment and  ability  to  take  responsibility,  make  sound  decisions,  and  apply  technical  skills  will  be  highly  regarded.

·         Industrial  training  gives  students  an  opportunity  to  evaluate  future  employers  as  well  as  enabling  informed decisions about the discipline and career paths to follow.

Duration

10 Weeks- Full Time.

 

Guidelines on the Industrial Placement:

Introduction:

A process Improvement is the proactive task of identifying, analysing and improving upon existing health and safety processes within an organisation/company for optimisation and to meet new standards of quality in environment, health and safety.

 These guidelines will enable you to not only carry-out the process improvement, but write the report.

Introduction:

Be brief, but tell the reader what they are going to read about and not a list of sections.

 

1.    Background of the Company:

This should give the reader an understanding of the company. Include number of workers and designation, vision and mission, core objectives, what they do etc

2.    Analysis of the problem:

a.      State how you and the organisation/company worked to identify the problem.

b.      Explain in detail the process used, the situation that was found during the risk assessment. Remember HAZAP.

c.       What were the reasons include any statistical data if appropriate or was collected. 

d.     What was the impact on all stakeholders; employees, employers, customers or any others?

e.      Does this align with the organisations/company’s vision, mission, goals/objectives?

f.        Once all the challenges/problems were identified – how were they prioritised?

g.      What tool(s) did you use to ascertain the root causes of the prioritised challenge?

3.    Solution(s):

a.      Explain the process used to identify the possible solutions

b.      How did you identify the main solution(s) to implement?

c.       Identify how to secure buy-in from people that will be involved or touched by the solution(s).

4.    Implementation:

a.      State your goal and objectives of this implementation strategy

b.      Describe using a project timeline the process of implementation.

c.       Describe any training and roll-out activities that are planned [what and with whom and why].

d.     Explain how you are going to build the capacity of people within that organisation/company in environment, health and safety.

e.      Explain the approach you are going to use to ensure ownership of this process improvement and how are people going to “hold-on” to the gains made when you leave the organisation/company or resume normal working.

f.        Who are you actually working with from within the organisation/company to achieve and sustain this improvement?

g.      Who is having the overall mandate to monitor and evaluate this improvement?

5.    Impact of the improvement process: