UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH 1 BSc (Hons) Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Session 2016/17 Course Title Physical Agents Level 6 Tutor Jeremy Carter Assignment 1 Aim The aim of this assignment is to familiarise students with the administrative and legislative control of physical agents within their own country. Learning Outcomes On completion of this assignment, you will –  Be familiar with the legislation currently enforced within your own country or state dealing with physical agents  Understand the enforcement provisions made by your country or state to ensure the legislation dealing with physical agents is complied with  Be able to critically evaluate your country or state's legislation and/or enforcement provision for the control of physical agents in the workplace. Brief There is continued concern that exposure to physical agents in the workplace are not being adequately prevented or controlled. Write a 1500 word essay that evaluates the current legislation, standards and guidance as it relates to one physical agent covered on this course. Legislation, standards and guidance should relate to your own country of practice or where there is no relevant legislation a country of your choice. This may include international standards, ILO or a country which demonstrates best practice. General Instruction You should research a range of reference materials including recent published research relating to the physical agent you are discussing. Journal articles on research can be found through the portal in the e-library using science direct, for guidance on accessing journals and eBooks online please refer to the accessing electronic resources guide on Moodle. The work is to be word-processed and appropriately referenced using the Harvard system of referencing. It should be presented in the form of an essay and the length must be with 10% of 1500 word limit, excluding appendices, reference list, bibliography, etc. A word count must be included.UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH 2 All assignments must be submitted electronically using the Turnitin service through Moodle (even where a hard copy is required by your local centre). There are a number of centres offering this programme so you must ensure you submit in the correct folder or your assignment may not be marked. You may also be required to submit a hard copy to your local centre. Your local centre will tell you whether or not a hard copy is required to be submitted. Assignments will not be marked unless they are submitted electronically. Assessment This coursework accounts for 50% of the course marks. The pass mark is 40%. The final grade for the course is an average of the grades achieved for assignment 1 and 2. It is not necessary therefore to pass both assignments to pass the course overall. It will be assessed on the basis of: Content 45% Critical evaluation 25% Structure and presentation 15% Referencing 15% Feedback Written feedback is provided on Moodle along with your grade breakdown. Please ensure you pay close attention to your feedback and email your course tutor should you require any further clarification on the points raised. Submission This assignment will normally be submitted 6 weeks after the study school but check online in Moodle or with your Centre for exact dates. Work submitted late will not be marked unless a formal extension of time has been granted. Please contact your course tutor if you cannot make the submission deadline date. Plagiarism and Copying It is not acceptable to copy other student's coursework or material directly from your sources of information. This is plagiarism. If you copy material it will be highlighted by the Turnitin system that is used for on-line submissions. The copied content will not be marked and you may be referred to the Plagiarism Panel and will be awarded a zero mark. Your final mark transcript will also show that you have been penalised for submitting plagiarised material. We will ignore small matches associated with common phrases and terms and will ignore matches highlighted in your reference list when considering whether or not your work is plagiarised.UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH 3 As a general rule you should aim to get your similarity index into the "green" zone on Turnitin. If you are in the "amber" zone you will need to look very carefully at your work to see what you can put into your own words to reduce your score. High amber scores may be referred to the plagiarism panel and will certainly mean that a significant part of your work will not be considered in the marking. If you are in the "red" zone you will be referred to the plagiarism panel. We strongly advise you to submit a final draft through Turnitin well before the cut-off date to check your similarity index. Please remember that you are only allowed to submit one draft version of your coursework every day so leave yourself plenty of time to revise and resubmit your final version of the coursework.