Client Care/ Communication and Negotiation/ Health and Safety (Submission)

Question 1

What do you consider when buying sites/ main site constraints?

Answer 1

• Sites access
• Key planning constraints e.g. Green Belt, AONB, Flood Zone, Listed Buildings
• Housing need
• Utilities available to the site

Question 2

What do you consider to be important when negotiating?

Answer 2

• Start low and gradually offer more
• Record an email trail
• Be mindful of the other parties personal situation and make sure to respond to them promptly.

Question 3

How do you ensure your communication is clear and concise?

Answer 3

• Prepare and accumulate my thoughts prior to speaking
• Look to develop a rapport with the other party
• Record email trail and make sure all my thoughts are summarised in one email rather than multiple

Question 4

What are your boards minimum hurdles?

Answer 4

To achieve a minimum profit on cost within our appraisal. The amount I cannot disclose as it is confidential. However, the industry average is 20% profit on cost.

Question 5

What were the multiple sources you used for Ashford Hill?

Answer 5

Local comparables
Neighbouring new build comps (although much larger plots)
Other new build values closer to Thatcham
Local agents (although did not know shanly product)

Question 6

Post the Grenville Tower disaster, what have the government done to combat building safety?

Answer 6

Gove re-cladding pledge March 2023 = threatened with nationwide ban if they fail to sign pledge to replace flammable materials on buildings over 11 metres.

Question 7

Are you aware of the RICS Health and Safety guidance note?
What does it set out?

Answer 7

Surveying Safely 2018.
Basic good practice principals for management of health & safety for RICS regulated firms e.g. workplace H&S and for visiting sites.

Question 8

What four things does Surveying Safely say RICS regulated firms need to ensure they provide?

What is meant by a ‘Safe Person’?

Answer 8

RICS regulated firms:
1. Safe working environment
2. Safe working equipment
3. Safe systems of work
4. Competent staff

Concept of a ‘Safe Person’ = individuals should assume their own behavioural responsibility for their own, their colleagues and the publics H&S whilst at work.

Question 9

What does surveying safely state about site visits?

Answer 9

• Tell someone where you are going and when you leave the building site.
• Ensure you have appropriate PPE.
• Sign in and sign out and receive a site induction.
• Consider whether it is safe to inspect alone.

Question 10

Why was Surveying Safely created?

Answer 10

To place more emphasis on individuals competence with the ‘safe person concept’.

Question 11

What legislation requires companies to have a H&S policy? What does this require empolyers to do?

Answer 11

Health & Safety at work Act 1974

• Duty of the employer to reasonably ensure the health and safety at work of all employees.

Question 12

Difference between a hazard and a risk?

Answer 12

Hazard = something that could cause harm

Risk = Likelihood of a hazard occuring

Question 13

What is the 5-step approach for an H&S risk assessment?

Answer 13

1. Identify = HAZARD
2. Who is at risk
3. Assess the likelihood and severity of any accidents.
4. Record the findings on a suitable form
5. Review the risk assessment regularly

Question 14

When are companies required to have a written H&S risk assessment document?

Answer 14

When they have more than 5 employees.

Question 15

What should a companies health and safety document contain?

Answer 15

1. Policy setting out organisations commitment to H&S
2. Details of the organisations H&S structure
3. A risk assessment
4. Details of the implementation of the H&S policy

Question 16

At Break Shear House, what would you have done if you did not have the required PPE?

Answer 16

Waited outside the site office and called the site manager.
If still no PPE then not enter the site.

Question 17

How would you check your PPE is in date?

Answer 17

Hard hat = has an expiry date on the inside of the rim

Question 18

What did the Break Shear House sites risk assessment include & what was covered in the induction training?

Answer 18

1. It explained where there was a risk to me on site.
2. It informed me who could be at risk from the hazard.
3. It evaluated the potential of the risk and informed me how I could mitigate against it.
4. It told me to note down any more risks I could see.
5. It told me to keep the risk assessment with me to review.

Induction training made me aware of who the first-aid contact was and where the fire assembly points where. However, as I was being escorted, the detail was limited.

Question 19

What do Shanly do to mitigate fire risk on their new builds?

Answer 19

Use non-combustible materials. Also in 2023 we signed up to the government pledge where we are updating the cladding on any buildings over 11 metres.

Question 20

What are the main fire safety regulations post Grenfell?

Answer 20

Following the Hackitt Review post the Grenfell Tower disaster, the Fire Safety Act (2021) was created. The act requires:

• Regular inspections of lifts to be sent to the fire and rescue services.
• Evacuation plans are regularly updated.
• Residents are provided with fire safety instructions.

The Building Safety Act 2022 requires developers to fund unsafe cladding removal on buildings over 18 metres.

Question 21

What did Hackitt find?

Answer 21

The current system of building regulations and fire safety is not fit for purpose, and a culture change is required in the construction industry to focus on the delivery of safe buildings.

Question 22

What is the Shanly H&S policy?

Answer 22

Must sign in, in the mornings
Must inform reception of whereabouts when leaving the office and tell them when due back.
Mustr make sure I have my phone with and with sufficient charge when leaving
Must know where the fire assembly areas are
Must know who the first aid officers are

Question 23

Who is responsible for H&S at Shanly?

Answer 23

Head of HR

Question 24

What is asbestos?

Answer 24

An insulating material which can cause serious health problems or fatal diseases.

Question 25

What legislation are you aware of in relation to asbestos?

Answer 25

The Control of Asbestos Regulation 2012

Question 26

What do you understand from the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012?

Answer 26

They set out your legal duties and the approved code of practice, on how to comply with the requirements, they give a minimum standards for protecting employees from risk.

Question 27

Who is the duty holder within the Control of Asbestos Regulations?

What should the duty holder do if they find it?

Answer 27

Owner of a premises.

If found:
1. Record where it is.
2. Assess the risk and produce a management plan (potentially remove?)
3. Produce an asbestos register
4. Make register available to anyone who might come into contact
5. Review the register

Question 28

How many types of asbestos are there?

Answer 28

3 = Brown, blue and white

Question 29

How does asbestos cause lung damage?

Answer 29

Small toxic fibres are lodges in your lungs

Question 30

When was asbestos banned?

Answer 30

1999

Question 31

What is CDM? Role of the client for this?

Answer 31

Construction Design and Management Regs 2015

Sets out what people involved in construction works need to do to protect themselves and others.

Aim is to improve the management and co-ordinartion of H&S at all stages of the construction project.

The onos is on the client and not the contractor to ensure CDM arrangements

Includes:
- risk assessment
- welfare facilities
- keeping a site secure