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2 - Health and Safety Flashcards

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What is the main RICS safety guidance note?

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Surveying Safely

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Can you explain some of the content of Surveying Safely?

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  • Sets out basic, good practice principles for management of H&S by members and firms in their work.
  • Safe Person Concept - Individual responsibility for their own, their colleagues’ and others’ health and safety while at work.
  • Assessing hazards and risks - Dynamic risk assessment
  • Members’ places of work - These can vary massively
  • Occupational Health and Hygiene - Stress, bullying
  • Visiting Site - Risk assessment, lone working etc.
  • Fire Safety - General fire safety advice
  • Procurement and management of contractors
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Name two guidance notes related to Safety

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  • Surveying Safely
  • Asbestos
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What does Surveying Safely contain?

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  • Safe Person Concept
  • ESEAP
  • Risk assessment principles
  • Employer’s Place of Work
  • Managing Contractors
  • Fire safety
  • House picture with asbestos
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What is included within the Asbestos guidance note?

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  • Detail on asbestos
  • Examples of where found (diagram)
  • Appendix A - list of types and where found
  • Appendix B - List of scenarios and who the duty holders would be
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When is a project Notifiable

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  • More than 30 days AND more than 20 people working on site at any time
  • More than 500 person days
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Name some Client duties

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  • Provide sufficient time and resource
  • Appoint the PD and ensure that they are aware of their role
  • Provide welfare
  • Cooperate with PD and all parties
  • Provide preconstruction information to PD
  • Notify the HSE via the F10
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Name some Principal Designer Duties

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  • Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the precon phase
  • Provide H&S file to Client
  • Liaise with Client to obtain Precon information
  • Liaise with PC to keep them informed of risks
  • Work with others
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Name some Principal Contractor Duties

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  • Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the Construction phase
  • Prepare a CPP
  • Liaise with Client and PC
  • Consult and engage with workers
  • Provide site specific inductions
  • Prevent unauthorised access to site
  • Check people have skills, knowledge, experience and capacity to undertake works
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What are the COSHH regulations? What year?

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  • COSHH 2002
  • Chemicals
  • Fumes
  • Dust
  • Duty on employers to ensure that they control manage the handling of s
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What are the WAH regulations? What year?

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  • 2005
  • Duty on employers to make sure WAH is planned, supervised and carried out by competent people.
  • Risk assessment
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What are the LOLER regulations? What year?

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  • 1998
  • Lifting Operations Lifting Equipment Regs
  • Must be planned, managed and undertaken by competent people
  • Equipment must be maintained, regularly tested and labelled as certified
  • Keep inspection records and records of defects
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What are the PUWER regulations? What year?

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  • 1998
  • Provision and Use of Work Equipment regulations
  • Must be planned, managed and undertaken by competent people
  • Equipment must be maintained and certified/tested regularly
  • Records kept
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What is RIDDOR? What year?

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  • 2013
  • Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
  • Requires reports to go to the HSE for specific events and incidents
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What are the RIDDOR reporting requirements?

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  • Any of the example incidents such as fractures, breaks, crushing, chain hoist snap, overturned plant
  • Anything that results in being off work for 7 days
  • Must be reported within 10 days of incident, but can be extended to 15 days if this is longer than 7 days in hospital
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What does ESEAP stand for?

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  • Eliminate
  • Substitute
  • Engineering Controls
  • Administrative Controls
  • PPE
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What are the 5 principles of the Considerate Contractors Scheme?

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SCAVE
1) Safety
2) Community
3) Appearance
4) Value Workforce
5) Environment

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What are the three types of asbestos

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  • Crocidolite (Blue)
  • Amosite (Brown)
  • Chrysotile (White)
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What is COAR? What year?

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  • Control of asbestos regulations

- 2012

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What duties are set out under COAR?

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  • Duty to manage and control asbestos via an Asbestos Management Plan
  • Management Survey
  • Demolition and Refurbishment survey
  • Asbestos awareness training
  • Repair/remove it if required
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Explain the different types of work involved with Asbestos?

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  • Licensed Notifiable - 14 day advanced warning
  • Unlicensed Notifiable - Any time before works
  • Unlicensed Not Notifiable - Not required
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What pieces of legislation are there related to Fire safety in your industry?

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  • CDM
  • Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
  • Approved Document Part B
  • Building Safety Act 2022
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What does the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 require?

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  • Responsible person to undertake risk assessment
  • Put things in place to mitigate identified risks
  • Communicate to staff
  • Maintain fire fighting equipment
  • Provide emergency plans
  • Train staff
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When was asbestos banned in the UK

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  • Crocidolite and Amosite in 1985

- Chrysotile in 1999

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What are the key principles of the HSAWA 1974?

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  • Ensuring employees’ health, safety, and welfare at work
  • Protecting non-employees against the health and safety risks arising from work activities
  • Controlling the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or dangerous substances

As far as reasonably practicable!

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What is the Joint Fire Code?

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  • Set of good practice principles published for the management of fire safety on site through design and construction phase.
  • Published by Fire Protection Association and lots of insurers
  • Key for a lot of insurance provisions in contracts
  • Any project over £2.5m
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What is the HSE?

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Health and Safety Executive.

It is an independent watchdog for work related H&S acting to reduce death/injuries.

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What is a Construction Phase Health & Safety Plan?

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Developed during the construction phase by the contractor demonstrating how the project will be constructed from a safety perspective.

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What is the Considerate Constructors Scheme?

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A non-profit independent org aiming to improve the image of construction through encouraging contractors and supply chain to implement best practice.

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30
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Which type of accident kills the most?

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Long term - Breathing in dust
On site - Falls from height

31
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Minimum height for main guard rail on scaffolding?

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950mm

32
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When you last attended site what considerations did you give for your own Health and Safety?

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-Wore PPE
-Site induction
-Adhered to site specific rules
-Reported any issues to site management

33
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What is a CSCS Card

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-Construction Skills Certification Scheme
-Proof of training

34
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What is a HSE prohibition notice?

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-Stop a particular activity and must not resume until an action to mitigate/resolve the risk.

35
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What do you do if you find an injured person on site?

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-Assess the danger
-Call for help

36
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What is a Risk Assessment?

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Identifies the hazards associated with a piece of work and how to reduce the risk.

37
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What is a Method Statement?

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Details the way work will be completed.

38
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What is the Hierarchy of H&S Risk Control?

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-PPE
-Administrative (Change way to work)
-Engineering (Isolate people from the risk)
-Substitution (Replace the risk)
-Elimination

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What do you do if you find asbestos?

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Stop work immediately
Report to the site manager
Tested / removed by competent contractor

40
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What are the types of asbestos survey?

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Management Survey - Manage Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM) during occupation.
Refurbishment & Demolition Survey - Where premises will be refurb/demo’d.

41
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What is an Asbestos Management Plan?

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Document, register and deal with asbestos on property.

42
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When is an employer required to have a written H&S policy?

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More than 5 employees

43
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What Health and Safety Regulations are applicable to a construction project?

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HSWA 1974
Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999
CDM 2015
COSHH 2002
WAH 2005

44
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What is the HSWA 1974?

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Basis of H&S law setting out general duties which employers have towards employees and members of the public and employees have to themselves.

45
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What is the concept of a Safe Person?

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Each individual is responsible for the own, colleagues and others H&S whilst at work.

46
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Name all the CDM Duty Holders

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Client
Principal Contractor
Principal Designer
Designer
Contractors
Workers

47
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What is an F10

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Form sent to the HSE to notify them of a relevant construction project.

To be issued by the client, but this can be delegated to the PD.

48
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What is Pre-Construction information?

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Makes prospective contractors aware of the projects H&S and welfare requirements

Description of work
Client considerations
H&S file

49
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What is the H&S file?

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  • Clients, designers and contractors supply information
  • Description of the works
  • Identified Hazards
  • Nature/location of significant services
  • Residual hazards
50
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What is 5-point PPE?

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Hardhat
Hi-Vis jacket
Glasses
Steel capped boots
Gloves

51
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Why has the Building Safely Act been introduced?

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  • Rules / Regs not understood
  • Lack of clarity on Roles and Responsibilities
  • Inadequate regulatory oversight and enforcement tools
52
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What are the key items introduced in the Building Safety Act?

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  • Applies to all buildings but focusses on high-rise resi
  • New duty holders
  • Introduces 3 gateways in project scope
  • BS Levy
53
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What are the new duty holders under the BSA?

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Accountable Person
Building Safety Regulator
Principal Accountable Person

54
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What are the height requirements on higher-risk buildings under the BSA?

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18 meters
7 storeys

55
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What are the functions for the Building Safety Regulator?

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  • Overseeing Standards
  • Improving Competence
  • Leading Implementation
56
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What are the Gateways under the BSA?

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Gateway 1 - Planning Submission. Fire Safety Statement issued with PS
Gateway 2 - Before Construction. BSR approval required before start.
Gateway 3 - Before Occupation. Building Assessment Cert issued to BSR before occupation

57
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What is the Building Safety Levy?

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Levy to fund BSR’s activities and programmes and building safety defect remediation costs
- Applicable on resi developers requiring building control approval

58
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What are the changes to Approved Document B?

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  • Safety Alert system in buildings over 18m
  • Safety Information box in buildings over 11m
  • Ban on combustible materials externally on buildings over 11m
59
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What are the changes to Part L?

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  • Produce 31% less carbon emissions than currently acceptable
  • Greater insulation requirements
  • Introduction of the Target Primary Energy Rate
  • Use of SAP on all new builds
60
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What is a Target Primary Energy Rate?

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The maximum allowable primary energy usage by the dwelling

61
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Who is responsible for fire and safety risks under the BSA?

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Building owner

62
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What is the accountable person? What are their responsibilities?

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Has responsibility for the building
RACS
- Register / Apply for a Building Assurance Certificate
- Appoint competent building safety manager
- Safety Case Report to Building Safety Regulator
- Coordinate the golden thread of safety information

63
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What is the golden thread?

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Demonstrates the building is compliant with the relevant building regulations.
Helps deal with building safety risks.

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What is the role of the Principal Designer under the Building Safety Act?

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  • Make sure the team know enough about the building regulations to assess whether a building design will comply with all the relevant regulations
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What is the role of the Principal Contractor under the Building Safety Act?

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  • Take responsibility for the site and manage the flow of information.
  • Work with designers and other contactors to ensure the works will comply with all the relevant regulations.
66
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Who is the responsible person?

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Under the Fire Safety Order 2005 it is usually the owner or someone with control over the building.

67
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What are the responsibilities of the Principal Accountable Person?

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  • Preparing a safety case report
  • Operating reporting systems for building safety issues and complaints
  • Engaging with residents
  • Keeping the Regulator updated about any changes
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What is the difference between the Accountable Person and Principal Accountable Person?

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Could be several AP’s to one HRB (freeholder, management company etc Each person can also be accountable for more than one building.

For each HRB, one AP will be the PAP. If only one AP they are automatically the PAP.

69
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What will the Building Safety Regulator do?

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  • Regulate high-rise buildings
  • Deliver new regulatory framework for high-rise and other buildings
  • Overseeing safety and performance
  • Promote abilities of professionals and tradespeople that work on buildings.
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What goes into a F10

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  • Site Address
  • Local Authority
  • Principal Contractor Details
  • Principal Designer Details
  • Start date
  • Client Details
  • Max number on site
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What is in a CPP?

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  • Client and PD details
  • Key dates
  • PC details
  • Main dangers on site
  • First aid procedure
  • Risk management procedure
  • Waste management procedure
72
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How do you monitor progress on site?

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Programme progress
Valuations vs cashflow
Labour levels

73
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3 Types of Delay

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Contractor Led
Client Led
Neutral

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