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The capstone project for HSE Officer Foundations: Workplace Health, Safety and Environment in Nigeria — a free Business course. Pass it and you earn a certificate anyone can verify.

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The project unlocks once you complete the lessons. The workbook is free to download now so you can see exactly what is expected.

What you will submit

One document (Google Doc with view access, or an uploaded Word or PDF file) with a headed section for each of the six parts. Tables are welcome. Everything fictional; no real personal data or employer documents.

What to do, step by step

  1. Choose a fictional workplace you can picture in detail: a small construction site, a block-making yard, a warehouse, a hotel kitchen, a factory floor, a filling station, a school, or an office block. Give it a name and a location. Everything in the file is fictional: do not use a real employer's documents, real people's names, or a real incident.
  2. Part 1. Hazard register and risk assessment: walk through your workplace in your mind (or, if you have permission, a real one, but change the names) and list at least 12 hazards across at least five hazard families. For each, record who could be harmed and how, the current controls, a likelihood and severity rating with your matrix, the additional controls you propose using the hierarchy of controls, an owner and a review date. Controls must be specific actions, not 'be careful'.
  3. Part 2. Job safety analysis: pick one routine task at the workplace and break it into at least six steps. For each step, list the hazards and the controls, and name who is responsible. State what permit, if any, the task would need and who signs it.
  4. Part 3. Emergency plan and drill record: a one-page emergency plan covering fire, a serious injury and one other emergency relevant to your workplace, with roles (who raises the alarm, who calls whom, fire wardens, first aiders, assembly point, head count), the numbers to keep by the phone, and the map or description of escape routes. Add a filled-in record of an evacuation drill you have planned (date, time to clear, what went wrong, actions).
  5. Part 4. Incident report and investigation: invent one incident (a near miss or a minor injury) and complete an incident report form, then a short investigation: timeline, evidence, interviews summarised, immediate causes, root causes using 5 whys or a simple cause tree, and at least three corrective actions with owners and dates. Note what statutory or client reporting would apply and say where you would confirm the current requirement.
  6. Part 5. Toolbox-talk plan: a four-week plan of weekly toolbox talks for the workplace (topic, why now, one key message, one question to ask the crew, how attendance is recorded), plus the full script of one talk of 5 to 10 minutes in plain language.
  7. Part 6. The one-page HSE plan: policy statement, organisation and responsibilities, the legal and standards register (names of the laws and standards you would check, without inventing section numbers), the training and induction plan, inspection and audit schedule, and the leading and lagging indicators you would report monthly.

Files to work with

Project workbook (fill in, then submit)The whole brief, an evidence checklist, the grading rubric as a self-check and the link-sharing steps in one file. Opens in Word, Google Docs or WPS.Word · 7 KB

How it is graded

CriterionWeight
The hazard register covers at least five hazard families with specific, hierarchy-based controls, owners and review dates22%
The JSA breaks a task into clear steps with hazards, controls, responsibility and the right permit16%
The emergency plan assigns roles and routes realistically and the drill record shows learning16%
The incident investigation reaches root causes and sets corrective actions with owners, and handles reporting duties honestly18%
The toolbox-talk plan is practical and the scripted talk is short, plain and ends with a question14%
The one-page HSE plan is coherent, names the right laws and standards without inventing detail, and includes leading indicators14%

You need 65% overall to pass. A human examiner also reviews this safety-critical project before any certificate is issued. A failed submission comes back with feedback and can be revised and resubmitted.

Before you submit: make your link public

If your work lives in Google Drive or Google Docs, open Share → General access and change “Restricted” to “Anyone with the link” (Viewer). Then paste the link into a private browser window: if it opens without sign-in, you are ready. A private link cannot be graded — it is the single most common reason a good project fails.

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to finish HSE Officer Foundations: Workplace Health, Safety and Environment in Nigeria before submitting the project?

Yes. The submission screen opens once every lesson in HSE Officer Foundations: Workplace Health, Safety and Environment in Nigeria is marked complete. The lessons are where the methods, the Nigerian context and the worked examples the project depends on are taught.

How is the project graded?

An examiner scores each rubric criterion from 0 to 100 and weights them as shown on this page; you need 65% overall to pass. Because this is a safety-critical trade, a human examiner also reviews every submission before a certificate is issued.

Can I resubmit if I fail?

Yes. A failed project comes back with feedback; revise the weak parts and resubmit. A passed project is final — the certificate is issued and cannot be re-rolled.

What do I actually submit?

A write-up of what you did (under 5,000 characters) plus a public link to your work — a Google Drive folder, Google Doc, spreadsheet, GitHub repository or video. The link must open without sign-in; a private link cannot be graded. The free project workbook on this page walks you through all 7 steps.

Is the certificate real?

Yes. Passing this project issues a certificate with a unique verification code. Anyone — an employer, a client, a school — can open the verification page and see that the certificate is genuine and which project earned it.

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