Engineering Foundations Principles and Communications 100 Semester 1, 2013 Site Visit Reflection

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MARKING CRITERIA
Student name: Student number: Tutor name:

Criteria Discussion of why a safety culture would be important to you in your future work in an Engineering Company (6 marks)

Discussion of how the virtual and real site (the 2 companies that you have visited) are achieving their view of safety culture. (9 marks) Language used: grammar, vocabulary and sentence structure Structure of the reflection

(5 marks)

TOTAL MARK /20

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Engineering Foundations Principles and Communications 100 Semester 1, 2013 Site Visit Reflection

SAFETY VISIT REFLECTION

Deepwater Horizon, Piper Alpha, Mexico City, Fukushima - are some of the major disasters that shocked nations. We watched the news, read the newspapers and talked a lot about the safety cultureor lack of it. What is the safety culture and what do we, as engineers, have to do with it? All engineers have a legal duty and a moral obligation to ensure that the plant/site/equipment designed or operated under their control is as safe as is reasonably practicable. All companies have to demonstrate a right attitude to safety, from the top management to the lowest grade of worker. We call that the Safety Culture. People, equipment and environmental infrastructure support the safety culture. During the next few weeks you will be visiting two sites: A virtual site BP Refinery, Bulwer Island, Queensland A real site please check the site visit schedule on Blackboard

You are a student engineer and your Project Manager has asked you to visit these two sites and to write a maximum 500 words reflection, considering the following ideas: If you would work in an Engineering Company, why developing a safety culture would be important to you? How are the two companies (virtual and real site) achieving their view of safety culture? (Hint: consider things like management strategies, regulations, people etc.) Submission: Deadline 8am, Monday 13th May through Blackboard Add a copy to your iPortfolio

References: Safe work Australia: www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au Marshall V. and Ruhemann S., Fundamentals of Process Safety, 2001, IChemE. Guidelines for process safety fundamentals in general plant operations, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Centre for Chemical Process Safety, 1995. Submission of the Site Visit Reflection: On your iPortfolio and a copy on Blackboard, via Turnitin. Background research: Good writing is based on good research. You must perform adequate background research to prepare yourself for your site visit. Curtin University provides a number of good resources to support you in this research process. Download the Curtin Library subject guide most appropriate for the disciplines represented at your site: http://library.curtin.edu.au/subjectguides/index.php. Complete the librarys interactive tutorials, available http://library.curtin.edu.au/study-and-research-tools/onlinetutorials/interactive-tutorials/index.cfm online at:

As an absolute minimum, you will have to identify at least five (5) meaningful questions that you will seek to answer while on site. There should be a mixture of questions that can be answered by observation and questions that will need to be asked of your tour guide; you should not include questions that could have been answered by proper pre-visit research.

THE SITE VISITS Virtual Site Visit You can access the Virtual Site Visit from any lab computer in building 204. You will find access via U:\MOE\APP\Virtual_Refinery\Start.exe Real Site Visit Site visits will take place between weeks 4 and 6 of semester, with the schedule for Site Visits available on Blackboard. This schedule can change due to the requirements of the companies to be visited; as such you should confirm your visit details prior to the day. It is important that students attend site visits in accordance with the site visit schedule. Student engineers are required to travel to and from the industry site on the bus designated for this trip and there are no exceptions to this. Under no circumstances are student engineers to travel to and from the site under their own arrangements. All buses will depart from the location shown below at the designated time.

Student engineers will not be permitted on the bus unless all of the following requirements have been met: 1. Mandatory dress standard:

Full-length sleeves, full-length trousers, and footwear compliant with AS/NZS2210 2. A minimum of five (5) meaningful questions

3. Any other requirements as specified by industry and detailed on the site visit schedule.

DO NOT PLAGIARISE.