Project Assignment
Introduction
Part of achieving your IOSH Managing Safely accreditation involves completing a project assessment about your workplace. Here weve put together our IOSH Project Assignment guide to help you complete your assessment. Each stage of the process is covered thoroughly on our IOSH Managing Safely course, with plenty of time and opportunity to ask the trainer if you are not sure about anything. The course is arranged so that you are able to complete the project step by step over four days.
person marking the assessment will not be the trainer who taught you and will not know anything about your workplace. While this gives you some valuable licence, which may be helpful, you will need to make sure you explain clearly things which may be obvious to you and those who work around you. You also need to be consistent as each part of the assessment relates to the others.
As with all assessments, the best advice is to read carefully what each of the sections requires and take your time. To gain the accreditation there is also a multi format exam to complete, weve put together some tips for completing the IOSH exam. The project consists of a series of six forms you will need to complete and these follow a logical sequence:
Contents
Part 1 Description of the work tasks that are your responsibility Part 2 - Hazard Checklist: Location Part 3 Hazard Checklist: Equipment and Substances Part 4 Hazard Checklist: Activities Part 5 Risk Assessment Form Part 6 Risk Control Form
Description of the people who work or visit the area regularly or from time to time and how often theyre there
List all the people who may be present, even if they are not on a regular basis. Dont forget to include people such as: Employees who generally work elsewhere in the organisation but may sometimes or occasionally be there, for example to collect goods/stationery or use the photocopier, etc. Contractors including service engineers, cleaners, etc. Any visitors e.g. reps or perhaps members of the public, even trespassers if these are anticipated For each of these groups of people dont forget to indicate those regularly work there and those who are there from time to time, indicating roughly the frequency of their presence e.g. cleaners will probably be there every day after working hours, service engineers perhaps once a month, employees
Description of permanent and/or temporary pieces of equipment and substances used in your work environment
Equipment depending on your workplace, this may include:
Tools indicate whether these are hand tools, power or battery or air powered tools and the number of these present Computer equipment Cleaning equipment especially electrical appliances Ancillary equipment, such as fans, fax machines, shredders, etc, etc
Consistency:
Make sure you list here any equipment you have indicated in your previous description/sketch and that certainly all large pieces of equipment are also shown in the description/sketch Also make sure you list here any equipment likely to be used by anyone you have listed in the previous section who may only work in the area from time to time, eg cleaners equipment
Substances:
List the substances used with an indication of the amounts involved Indicate the nature of any substances, eg Capital Green CG04 Floor Cleaner
Consistency:
Dont forget to include cleaning substances that may be used by cleaners or others you may have listed as working in the area in the previous section
Risk assessment
For this sheet, all the activities must require risk controls, otherwise you cannot satisfactorily complete the rest of the project and will lose a great many marks as a result.
Work activity
Make sure you use the work activities you have identified in Part 4. If you dont, you wont score any marks at all for this sheet!
People affected
Look back to Part 4 to see what you entered there and make sure you are consistent.
Assessment of risk
Use numerical values, rather than descriptive ones, or H/M/L.