We are in preparation for the mid-point review here. As mentioned a few posts back, while we have decided to cease activity on the excel spreadsheet and focus more on the userform instead, some things still had to be touched up so that it can be presented as our initial work for the mid point review.

Now, our excel spreadsheet, albeit having its limitations, is in presentable shape. As such, we can now focus much more of our time on the userform here.

As the mid-point review is just around the corner, we have to rush to finish the steps for at least one activity to be presented to the panel, and adjust a few bugs and error messages we got along the way and also check for any typos.

here are some screenshots of where our userform stands now.

This is the start page

As you can see, we have an extremely limited amount of hazards for now, as time is short and we dont have enough of it to complete the list before the mid point review.

 So is the activity. As of now, only one activity (tester) can be completed. We will add in more. This is once again, for demonstration purposes.

The user info page

Wish us all the best for our mid-point review!
More updates after

An update on our excel spreadsheet. This is the final layout we will be using during our presentation for the midpoint review.

Here are a few images of the data entry page

This is the layout of the activity and hazard identification part of our risk assessment activity

There is a new function that we have added allowing the user to choose the number of hazards associated with a particularly activity. When a number is entered into the box as shown below, a corresponding number of blank rows will appear to allow the user to input their different hazards.

Finally the review page is properly linked with our data entry.

E.g. 2 hazards are chosen in the data entry page for an activity. The green arrow shows that it is still the same activity and that 2 hazards are under it. The red arrow shows that a note will be given at the side of the page to show the number of hazards associated with the given activity. When printing of the review page, the note is not included. That is because the dotted lines show the boundaries for one printed page. 

Now that the structure and formatting of our userform is more or less done, we have decided to divert more of our attention towards its main content, i.e the hazards definitions, lists, as well as whether to include it or not.
Firstly, prior research to this had to be done. The material that we used also had to give us a wider perspective on what we aimed to accomplish. As such, reading material from various sources was what we did.
However, we also decided as Singapore had one of the most stringent standards when coming to risk assessment, as well as the fact that our users for this user form would be based here in singaopore, taking the singapore standard as our base shouldnt mislead us too much.
Our sources include:
mom.gov.sg
epa.gov/riskassessment
hse.gov.uk
bfr.bund.de/en/home.html
groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis375/projects/risktable/risks.html

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now that the current hazards list is finalized, images will be uploaded after mid point review

We have arrived at a unanimous decision that macros is much more useful than just doing the usual excel, even though it is much more complicated, most of our user forms has been based on VBA.
Seeing that we have to do a basic of 3 types of ra, for office, lab, and plant, we began to construct the simplest one; office ra and turns out, it isnt as simple as we thought.

Also, our list of hazards and its details are still being constructed but through research and expanding our list, our current hazards is as so.

Mechanical hazard: Moving parts, loose parts that can be detached

Physical hazard: Heavy objects, sharp objects, objects that can cause scrapes, cuts and bruises

Chemical hazard: Corrosive chemicals, irritants, chemicals with extreme pH, highly volatile chemicals, carcinogenic chemicals

Knocking hazard: Sharp or hard protruding parts

Fire hazard: Flammable substances, surfaces with high temperatures, objects that can cause ignition

Freezing hazard: Surfaces with extremely cold temperature, sub zero environments, substances kept at extremely low temperatures

Toxic hazard: Liquids or gases that will cause adverse effects on our health when come close to

Electrical hazard: Objects using electricity, electrical outputs, electrical conductors

Radiation hazard: Objects that radioactive

Noise hazard: Loud noises that can cause hearing impairment, sounds that will affect your ability to work

Biological hazards: Bacteria, viruses, microorganisms

Visual hazards: Bright lights (Welding)

Environmental hazards: CFCs, pollutants

Another problem has surfaced in our user form. As shown, the default user form only has one name and designation to fill in, keeping things simple. However, as this form is on excel, adding names and designations would be highly impossible if the user so required.

This was a problem that even the functions on excel were unable to solve and as such, we had to rely on our proficiency on VBA macros programming. to achieve the following.

We made it such that when the user entered the number of names, the corresponding number of boxes would appear for the user to fill in.

Thus, when the user enters 3 names, 3 boxes would appear and if he enters 5, 5 boxes would appear.

However, we had to decide on a limit of numbers the user can input.

The code for the above is as so.

Complicated eh?

Prior to our previous meeting with our supervisor, we were informed that the labeling for the forms were too vague. We were also alerted to the fact that not many people have a firm grasp on how to conduct a proper ra and thus, will not be able to fill in the form appropriately. Therefore, we have attempted to alter the labels to phrase it into questions instead of just a normal label as well as color code it into shades that even someone who is colour blind can differentiate.

Also, we have also managed to make it such that when the user selects a choice, it will correspond to the matrix we have set in the background, providing the user with an automated risk level of whether the activity is low risk, medium risk, or high risk.

This is how the corresponding matrix looks in the background with the code at the top.

This week, we believed that we have truly truly began our fyp in earnest. After a few weeks of reading up and preparation, as well as experimenting with the various excel formulas, we have after long last, managed to integrate the basic RA form into excel albeit with some minor glitches regarding the space and labeling.

with that, and following the excel formulas we learnt a few weeks back, we could integrate the drop down list as well as the ra matrices into this basic sheet.

Now that the basic form is up, we can start refining it and removing the problems that people face when performing ra.