This module has two main themes: it looks at the various aspects of project management, from the identification and planning of a project to the post-completion phase, and it also discusses the implications of health and safety legislation to a project. Overall, the aim is to help you identify the major stages of managing a project, to examine the roles of project personnel, to explain the rationale for managing health and safety and to understand the requirements - legal and moral - placed on employers and employed alike.
Aims & Learning Objectives:
AIMS:
* To identify the major stages of managing a project;
* To examine the roles of project personnel;
* To explain the rationale for managing health and safety.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Refer to workbook 1 and 2 for detailed section learning objectives.
Content:
THE NATURE OF A PROJECT:
What is a project?, types of projects, nature of work.
DEMAND FOR A PROJECT:
Various perspectives, project sponsors.
INCEPTION:
Parties to the inception phase, relationship between concept and cost.
FEASIBILITY:
The feasibility study, project sponsors.
STRATEGY:
Requirements of a strategy, procurement routes, project organisation and control.
PRE-CONSTRUCTION:
Design management, project co-ordination, quality management.
START UP:
The start up phase.
OVERVIEW OF HEALTH AND SAFETY:
Rationale, hazard and risk, the risk assessment process.
CONSTRUCTION HEALTH AND SAFETY:
Construction and manufacturing, reasons and cures.
CONSTRUCTION HEALTH AND SAFETY LEGISLATION:
History, Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the 'six pack' regulations 1992.
CONSTRUCTION (DEISGN AND MANAGEMENT) REGULATIONS 1994:
THE COST OF ACCIDENTS:
Economic costs, detailed breakdown of accidents.
CONSTRUCTION HEALTH:
Occupational health hazards.
THE HUMAN FACTOR:
Ergonomics, motivation, behavioural approach.
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