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:
- Lecturer: Vivienne Laing