WEEK 5- This week the course was focused around health and safety, and the idea of developing a health and safety plan for our group products. This week we were pretty confident of our abilities to perform this task well, as we had been through the pain of looking at the health and safety act in our previous year in the CAT course. Saying that, from my point of view it actually happened to be reasonably interesting as we were now actually looking at putting the act into practice, which actually held some relevance with me, and this time i could actually see the benefit of looking into what makes up the health and safety act. Given the nature of our project, we actually managed to come up with a pretty comprehensive list of potential risks for our workshop environment, in one way this made the task a lot easier for us as we actually had some information to work with. Our knowledge as a group of working in a boatbuilding workshop environment actually worked in our favour as we had the general idea of a lot of the safety measures we would need to follow. its always nice to have a bit of a headstart!! This week a couple of our group members(including myself) were pulled up for some aspects of our presentation skills, mainly with regards to reading from a piece of paper. Although i felt this was a little harsh as i was required to state our companies health and safety policy, having only had an hour to work on it! however i can understand sylilas concerns and hope to improve this by next week!!

*please note i have had some issues with regards to Internet access over the past few weeks moving house, so my log has been kept manually over that time, with the past few weeks all being uploading together.