Activity 2: Preparing a brief research report on approaches to worker consultation


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UNIT DI1: KNOW - WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY PRINCIPLES (INTERNATIONAL) 

NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Management Professionals

PAPER 2 OF 2 PAPER 1 AVAILABLE


Guidance to learners
There are two question papers for this assessment. This paper (Paper 2 of 2) has 200 available marks.

Information for learners
This paper includes activities that:
1. You must carry out in your chosen workplace;
2. require you to reflect on your practices.

Typically, the chosen workplace will be the workplace in which you normally work. However, if your workplace is not suitable (for example it does not provide sufficient scope), you can choose any suitable workplace, provided you can access the information you need to complete the activities in this part.

Workplace-based activities

Activity 1: Create an organisational risk profile for your chosen organisation

This section is very important. It describes the main risks that your organisation faces. The answers you give to the remaining activities in this paper must be consistent with the information you provide here (unless otherwise stated). For example, if the risks that you give here relate to the banking or insurance sectors, it would be unusual to later describe a situation where welding contractors are repairing a chemical storage tank in your own organisation.

1

Produce a risk profile of your chosen organisation that outlines FOUR significant risks.

(20)

Note: You must use the Activity 1 format table provided in the answer sheet to record your answers.

Note: There are 5 marks available for each risk.


Activity 2: Preparing a brief research report on approaches to worker consultation

2.    Prepare a brief research report that

 

  • critically reviews how your chosen organisation consults with workers on health and safety matters.
  • evaluates the effectiveness of how your chosen organisation consults with workers on health and safety matters.
  • makes TWO recommendations for improving worker consultation in your chosen organisation.
(50)

Your research report must be presented in the following format (see marking descriptors for further information)

  • Executive summary.
  • Introduction – containing aims/objectives, methodology and introduction to the topic.
  • Critical review – which briefly, but critically, reviews techniques for worker consultation on health and safety matters. This must draw from a range of reliable reference sources such as authoritative guidance, expert opinions, and other evidence. References for the cited evidence should use a recognised referencing style (Harvard, Vancouver, OSCOLA, etc). The learner can choose which style to use, but the style must be used consistently throughout the report.
  • Brief analysis of the effectiveness of your chosen organisation’s worker consultation techniques. This is effectively a brief gap analysis or commentary comparing your organisation to good practice/effective insights that you have determined from your critical review. It should include examples from the workplace to support the analysis.
  • Conclusion – a summary of findings that includes


- A clear outline of TWO recommendations for improving the worker consultation techniques used in your chosen organisation.
- A justification for EACH of your recommendations. The justifications must include links back to the research carried out and give an indication that each recommendation will be effective.
- List of Reference sources cited.

NOTES ON WORD COUNT:
Your report must be no more than 2500 words in total and approximately 10% of these (ie 250 words) must be used for the executive summary.
If your answer exceeds the word count NEBOSH reserves the right to not mark any of your work beyond

  • 275 words (250 words + 10% tolerance) of the executive summary, and/or
  • 2475 words (2250 words + 10% tolerance) of the rest of the report.


Marks will be awarded as follows:

Criteria

Marks

Executive summary

3

Introduction

3

Critical review

15

Analysis

10

Conclusion

3

A clear outline of the two recommendations (3 marks for each recommendation)

6

Justification for recommendations (5 marks for each recommendation)

10


Activity 3: Transferable leadership skills

3. Compare your own leadership style against the characteristics of an authentic leader. You should identify EIGHT authentic leader characteristics and show how these are, or are not, reflected in your own leadership style.

You must use relevant personal examples to support your answer. (20)

Note: You must use the Task 3 format table provided in the answer sheet to record your answers.


Activity 4: Analysing strengths and weaknesses against high reliability organisation (HRO) characteristics

4.  (a) Analyse how your chosen organisation performs against BOTH of the followings HRO characteristics

  • containment of unexpected events
  • learning orientation.
 

(10)

Note: There are 5 marks available for each characteristic.

(b) Based on your analysis in part (a), give details of TWO recommendations that could improve HRO characteristics in your chosen organisation.
You must justify why you have chosen each of the recommendations. (10)

Note: The recommendations can be drawn from just `containment of unexpected events` or from just `learning orientation` or you could give a recommendation for each characteristic.

Note: There are 5 marks available for each recommendation.


Activity 5: Management of contractors

5. Review how your chosen organisation selects contractors and manages them while they are on site.

Your answer must consider the main topics from INDG368, specifically

  • identification of job
  • criteria for selection of contractors
  • assessing the risks from the work
  • provision of information, instruction and training
  • co-operation and co-ordination
  • consultation with workforce
  • management and supervision of contractors while on site
  • relevant legal requirements. (20)

Note: You must use suitable examples from your chosen organisation to illustrate your answer.


Activity 6: Reviewing health and safety performance

6

(a) Critique your chosen organisation’s health and safety management review process against the following steps

 (20)

  • setting objectives
  • identifying types of information to be collected
  • considering the supply chain
  • considering incidents in similar organisations.

Note: You must use suitable examples from your chosen organisation to illustrate your answer.

Note: There are 5 marks available for each step.

Source: HSE HSG65 Managing for health and safety

(b) Based on your part (a) responses make THREE recommendations for improvements to the review process.

 (15)

Note: You must use suitable examples from your chosen organisation to illustrate your answer.

Note: There are 5 marks available for each recommendation.


Activity 7: Sensible and proportionate risk management

7. Risk management in an organisation should be both sensible and proportionate to the level of risk involved.

Describe your chosen organisation’s approach to risk management AND comment on whether this approach is sensible. You must support your answer with THREE relevant examples from your chosen organisation. (15)


Activity 8: Key principles of organisational change

8. Select a recent or future change that your chosen organisation has carried out or is planning to carry out.

(a)  Provide a description of what the change is and what it is intended to do. (5)

(b) How has your chosen organisation managed, or is intending to manage, the change compared to the following key principles (15)

  • evidence that the direct effects on control of hazards have been identified AND assessed
  • evidence that the indirect effects on control of hazards have been identified AND assessed
  • evidence that the effect of too many simultaneous changes have been considered
  • evidence of phased changes
  • evidence of realistic and systematic planning.

Note: There are 3 marks available for each key principle.

Source: HSE’s ‘Key principles of managing organisational change’


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