MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
LOG BOOK FOR
:
GERALD CHIHOTA
REG NUMBER
:
R1610431C
DEGREE PROGRAMME
:
GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES
NAME OF ORGANISATION
: MASIMBA CONSTRUCTION ZIMBABWE
PERIOD OF ATTACHMENT
: 01APRIL 2019 TO MARCH 2019
LEVEL
:
MODULE
:
3.1 & 3.2(CON)
WORK RELATED LEARNING LOG BOOK
MAY MONTHLY ACTIVITIES 2019
Week
Activities
scheduled
Activities actually covered
Student’s comments


for
coverage
1.
 Safety talks
I conducted safety briefings to
The activity was quite a
ensure that employees are aware of
success and no problems were
the occupational health and safety
encountered
risks associated with the job they
perform
 Daily routine
checks

I conducted daily routine checks to
ensure that there is safety compliance 
The activity was successful
to safety procedures among the
and there was compliance to
employees.
safety procedures among the
employees in the field.
 Induction

I inducted a group of employees
from our new subcontractors so that

The activity went on well
they will be fully aware of MCZ
smoothly and the employees
policies, rules and other safety
co-operated very well.
procedures .This is in line with
company vision of achieving zero
Harm.
Week
Activities
Activities actually covered
Student’s comment


scheduled for
coverage
1.
 Training on
how to use
DSTI
I trained employees from our new
The activity was successful
sub-contractors on how to use Daily
and the employees were able
Safety Task Instruction(DSTI)
to grasp the concept without
any problem.
2.
 Safety talk

I conducted Safety briefings as a way 
of giving employees information
The activity went on well
about work place risks and
problems were encountered.
very
smoothly
and
no
appropriate ways to prevent illness,
injury and death.
 Daily routine
checkups

As a way of preventing accidents at
work site, I conducted daily routine
 Confined space
training


The activity went on well and
checkups so that I can identify unsafe
it allows for correction of
acts and record hazards for corrective
unsafe acts before they cause
action.
an accidents.
I conducted confined space training

The
activity
went
on
to one employee from Pump systems
smoothly .The activity is of
who wanted to adjust float switch in
paramount
an underground water tank at site.
because it is in line with MCZ
importance
values of achieving zero harm
through
identification
of
occupational
hazards
associated with its operations.
2.
 INDUCTION

I inducted some employees from our

The activity is of paramount
subcontractor who wanted to perform
importance at work place to
some maintenance at the site.
new workers because it is a
broad introduction to how
you manage safety and also to
notify potential risks at work
site.

3.
 Safety Talk

The activity was quite a
success and no problems were
I conducted safety briefing meetings
encountered
 Daily routine
checks

I conduct daily routine checks as a
way of identifying and proactively
address risks by taking preventative
and corrective action.

The activity is of paramount
importance
at
work
sites
because it helps to reduce
shortcuts.
 Site meeting

I attended site meeting

Accidents and incidents must be
reported to the head office within a
3.

period of 24hrs .I wrote a report of an
It was quite a challenging
task but however I stood my
incident that occurred at Old mutual
ground and made sure that
site whereby a vehicle which was
every worker has appropriate
travelling along Robson Manyika
PPE for the task and in good
veered off the road and hit hoarding
condition.
structure at the site


The activity is of paramount
importance because it serves

Safety talks were conducted by other
as a reminder that safety first
employees whom I assigned some
and production follows
topics to present on as a way of
training and assessment.

Fall from heights is one of the
hazards that have high rate of

I conducted daily routine checks in
fatalities
and
injuries
in
the site for the purposes of checking
construction industry so as a
for compliance and also looking for
result I had to take a proactive
4.
good behavior at work and bad
approach and I issued a stop
behavior which need to be changed
and fix instruction.
 Working on
heights training

I conducted induction to new
employees on the site , giving them
light about our SHEQ policy ,
cardinal rules , common hazards and
other SHEQ related issues
3

The activity was successful

The activity was
 Safety talks
quit
a
success since it was done
within the stipulated time
frame.
4.
 Daily routine
checkups
 She inspection

The activity was a success
since all the employees cooperated very well and the
presentations were done.
 Induction

The activity was conducted
smoothly and I discovered
that there is need to embrace
behavior based safety at the
site and I scheduled it to be
conducted
as
training
on
safety talk.

4
The activity was quite a
success and all the inductees
co-operated very well.
Supervisor’s comments and signature
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