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Managing Emergency, Risk and Safety in Projects/Project Risk Management

Introduction to the Module
Risk and uncertainty are inherent in international projects, due to their unique and temporary nature, and the degree of certainty of project outcomes are a significant concern to the parent or client organisation. Students will explore international project risk management, within the business context, as a function of project management, as a project management process and as an area of knowledge, underpinned by existing and emerging theory and practice.

The module content will include the fundamentals of risk (and opportunity), initiating the risk management process, risk identification, risk analysis, planning risk responses, implementing risk responses and risk ownership and management responsibilities. Students will explore attitudes to risk and the relationship between risk attitudes and behaviour and the identification, analysis and management of project risk.

What many Project Managers seldom find difficult, is not the formulation of Sustainable Risk control measures, but their implementation. Undoubtedly, many Risk and Safety control measures are usually easy to recognise but difficult to implement in practice. This module will explore the reasons for this and give participants the opportunity to consider and synthesis new practical solutions that will add value to the conventional Risk and Safety Management practice. You will gain understanding of important concepts that are associated with enabling Project Managers safely deliver projects, as well as analyse, critique, and evaluate conventional practices associated with managing Emergency situations in Project delivery that have been implemented over the past decade. Get Homework Help Now!

This online learning experience will be active, social, and applied, developing your knowledge and building out key skills through weekly solo and group activities and a live seminar session. Each week you will:

Watch a dynamic video lesson on a key topic
Check your understanding through elaborative questioning about Leadership.
Apply and embed your learning by actively doing or creating something, sharing what you produce with others and learning from your classmates
Present, explore and extend your learning at a weekly live class

Aims

Increased levels of preparedness and more effective responses to realised risks and threats require an understanding of the issues that underlie many of the day-to-day problems faced by Project Managers during the delivery of both small- and large-scale projects. This understanding, including how such issues may be addressed in practice is necessary in order to increase the level of resilience of the Project team in delivering Projects within agreed duration, quality and budget. This module critically examines the risk management practices undertaken over the last decade. Students will identify related issues and synthesis ideas in which the conventional practices associated with managing risks in project delivery can be improved. Students will also be able to apply management tools and principles used in Preventing, Mitigating and Responding to Risks, Occupational Health and Safety oriented situations at all significant phases of both small- and large-scale projects.

Learning Outcomes 1. Demonstrate systematic understanding of the sources of risk and uncertainty in the project environment and their potential impact on project outcomes and business performance.

Learning Outcomes 2. Identify, analyse and critically assess potential risks in specific case-study situations.

Learning Outcomes 3. Evaluate critically the existing and emerging theory and practice of project risk management.

Learning Outcomes 4. Systematically apply qualitative and quantitative techniques to identify, assess and manage risks in complex and dynamic project environments.

Teaching and Learning Approach
The teaching of the module will comprise lectures (both face to face and flipped), seminars, workshops, skills development and self-guide study.
Teaching, learning and assessment at Coventry University London offers students the ability to develop their knowledge, skills and competences through a curriculum that is purposely designed to provide both an exceptional learning experience and also engage them with the four areas of curriculum excellence to which Coventry University London is committed:
Career-building
21st-century-learning driven
Technology-enabled
And internationally orientated
This module will be available to student's on-campus, supported by a learning management system which directs their programme of study. All teaching, learning and assessment materials will be available to both staff and students via the system in a consistent and user-friendly manner.
Students will engage primarily via a number of learning blocks in each module:
Knowledge & Understanding: this block is concerned with the sharing of academic theory and concepts to ensure students have mastered a critical appreciation of current and relevant research in the subject area.

Application: this block brings the knowledge and understanding ‘to life' by relating it to current practice. It takes a critical view of the theory and concepts as they are employed in the workplace in order to encourage students to evaluate their significance and merit.
Analysis & Problem Solving: this block requires students to develop and demonstrate their essential analytical skills in order to respond to employer related problems by making a set of clearly evaluated recommendations.

In addition, we aim to provide a transformative learning experience for all our students, providing them with space for their personal development and encouraging them to become engaged and involved in their academic areas of interest and the wider community.

Our principal pillars of transformative learning are interwoven and based upon:
1. Research inspired teaching
2. Embedded employability
3. Creativity and Enterprise
4. Intercultural and international engagement
5. Community contribution and responsibility
6. Innovation and digital fluency

These support the pedagogical approaches taken by experts to engage and inspire our students, providing relevance and excellence in their learning. In addition, they help us to address the following themes Sustainability and Social Responsibility, Graduate Skills, Flexible and Personalised Learning and Inclusive Curriculum.

Assignment - Risk Management Plan Report

Assignment Guidelines:
High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-speed railway line in the United Kingdom, with the first phase under construction for a targeted earliest opening date by 2029. When completed, the new track will stretch from its most southerly point in London to its most northerly point at Manchester, via Coleshill east of Birmingham. A branch at Coleshill takes HS2 north east to the East Midlands. HS2 will be the country's second purpose-built high-speed line, the first being High Speed 1, the connection from London to the Channel Tunnel.

You have been consulted as an expert with respect to the Project Risk Management practice to prepare a Risk Management Plan for this Project. This will require you to carry out the following:

Risk identification, qualification and quantification
Strategies to manage various types of risk.
Detailed Risk Register
Stakeholders' analysis highlighting success criteria and success factors
Communication management with all parties involved in the plan
Risk monitoring strategy.
Clearly state any assumptions and recommendations you make based on your findings.