GROUP ASSIGNMENT 1

BDA 31302
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
SEMESTER 1 2021/2022

Engineer's roles and duties in terms of safety and health

1. Specific Instruction:
a. This work will be completed in a group setting.
b. Each group may have a maximum of five members.
c. ONE TIME ONLY, submit a group report assignment in a SINGLE FILE.
d. Submission date: By 13th January 2022.
e. This assignment is worth 10% of the course's overall grade. .
f. The group leader is accountable for submitting the assignment ONLY ONCE in a
SINGLE file.

2. Things To Do:
• Locate and watch a film containing incidents involving safety and health issues in a
genuine workplace, public facility, or environment that occurred recently in Malaysia
or during the last five (5) years (select one [1] video only as a case study). Ascertain
that the video is no longer than ten minutes in length.
• Understand the video, analyse it, and write a critical review by gathering additional
information about it through interviews (interviews conducted online or via another
media platform are acceptable), journals, books, conference proceedings, technical
reports, news reports, broadcast/tv reports, or company magazine/profile. There is no
requirement for a site visit.
• Correlate the findings of the case study to applicable Occupational Safety and Health
Act (OSHA) 1994, Factories and Machinery Act (FMA) 1967, Environmental Quality
Act (EQA) 1974, and/or Occupational Health, Safety, and Environment Management
System standards/guidelines. WP1
• Recognize and debate issues concerning safety, health, and the environment. WP1
• Consider socioeconomic, health, safety, and cultural considerations, as well as the
associated duties for professional engineering practise. WP2
• Investigate moral dilemmas and provide ethical solutions to situations. WP3
 • Complete a thorough report (maximum 10 pages excluding Appendices). The
following is a proposed outline for the report and presentation:
1. Introduction
2. The case study description and analysis involving:
2.1 The case study description.
2.2 Explanation of the common unethical behaviour.
2.3 Explanation related to socio-culture issues.
2.4 Description of the moral issues and the evidence.
2.5 Explanation of viewpoints and value system considered to decide for
a plan of action.
2.6 Explanation of the decisions and the associated impacts.
3. Conclusion
4. References
5. Appendices (e.g. Photos, Case study Instrument, Interview Protocol, Gantt
Chart, Work Progress)

3. Outcomes
• A comprehensive report (with proper in-text citations and references)
i. Each group is expected to submit the report (softcopy) in Week 14 by 13th
January 2022 before 3.30 pm. The softcopy report can be submitted to the
web-based platform identified by the lecturers (either Dropbox, Edmodo,
UTHM Author, Google Drive or etc.).
ii. Language: English

4. Assessment criteria (10 marks)

• Ethics - Demonstrate an understanding of moral responsibilities of an engineer

related to safety and health (CLO2, PLO8, LOD16) – 10%

Case Study Report

Ethical behaviour Able to give specific explanation to the common
(WK7) unethical behaviour in the organization
Socio culture (WK7) Able to give concrete reasons on why socio-culture is
important to the professional practice
Identifying the Able to describe the moral issues in detail and with
moral issues (WK8) evidence. Able to gather the pertinent facts and
information and ascertain what must be decided
Determining Determine what must be decided, identify all the
Decision (WK8) parties involved and reflect on the viewpoints and
value system to decide as a plan of action.
Impact of Decision Able to make a maximum number of good and clear
(WK7) decisions and predict the associated impacts in detail.

Note (s):
CLO – Course Learning Outcome
PLO – Programme Learning Outcome
LOD – Learning Output Domain
WK – Knowledge Profile
 Rubric of Assessment

Scale
Chapter Ethics Element
1 3 5
Able to give
Able to state a simple Able to give specific
common explanation to explanation to the
Ability to Ethical
unethical the common common unethical
understand the Behavior
behavior in the unethical behavior in the
economic,
organization. behaviours in organization.
environmental
the organization.
and socio-
Able to give
cultural Able to state a
explanations on Able to give a
impacts of reason on why
why socio- concrete reasons on
professional socio-culture is
Socio-Culture culture is why socio-culture is
practice important to the
important to the important to the
professional
professional professional practice.
practice.
practice
Able to describe the
moral issues in detail
Able to identify and with evidence,
Identifying the moral issues able to gather the
Able to identify
the Moral and gather the pertinent facts and
the moral issues
Issues pertinent facts information and
Introduction;
and information. ascertain exactly
The case
what must be
study
decided.
description
Determine exactly
and analysis;
Determine what must be
Conclusion
exactly what decided, who should
must be dicided, be involved in the
Ability to Determine what
who should be decision making
analyse and must be decided.
involved in the process for that case,
make decision Find out who
Determining desion making accurately identify al
to solve should be
Decision process for that of the parties
problems involved in the
case and involved and reflecte
ethically decision making
accurately on the viewpoints of
process.
identify all of these key players as
the parties well as their value
involved. systems to decide as
a plan for action.
Able to make
Able to make a
some good and Able to make a
minimum number
clear decisions maximum number of
of good decision
Impact of and predict the good and clear
and predict the
Decision associated decisions and predict
associated
impacts in a the associated
impacts in
slightly specific impacts in detail.
general.
manner.