Element 3 - Health and Safety Management - Do Flashcards
What is included on a form 10
Address of construction site
Name of local authority where site is located
Brief description of project
Contact details of client, pd and pc
Date planned for start of construction phase
Planned duriation of construction phase
Planned number of contractors on site
When is a client required to complete a f10?
30 days with more than 20 workers working simultaneously
Exceed 500 person days
Define health and safety culture?
A system of shared values and beliefs about the importance of health and safety in the workplace.
4 C’s of a positive health and safety culture
Competence
Control
Communication
Cooperation
Factors promoting a negative health and safety culture?
Lack of leadership Loss of key personnel Poor working environment High staff turnover Lack of communication/ consultation Setting unrealistic targets Lack of enforcement
Factors influencing safety related behaviour
Organisation
Culture
Leadership
Resources
Communication
Job
Task demands
Environment
Displays and controls
Procedures
Individual
Competence
Personality
Attitude
Risk perception
What should be considered in a health and safety induction?
Health and safety policy.
Line management Specific hazards to job Employees responsibilities Consultation procedures Accident reporting Health surveillance Welfare facilities Emergency procedures
8 functions of a safety representative (unionised)?
Represent employees in consultation with employer
Inversyigating hazards and dangerous occurrences
Investigating accidents
Investigating employer complaints in relation to health and safety
Carrying out inspections of the workplace
Representing employees in consultation with inspectors
Receiving information from employer
Attending safety committee meetings
Safety representatives are entitled to what?
Time off with pay to carry out functions
Health and safety training
Reasonable facilities - an office
If 2 or more safety reps request a safety committee the employer must establish one within 3 months
When can a safety rep inspect the workplace
Every 3 months
Following a substantial change in work conditions
When the hse publishes new information in relation to hazards in the work place
Following a notifiable accident, disease or dangerous occurrence
What functions does a representative of employee safety (non unionised) have?
Represent employees in consultation with employer
Investigating hazards and dangerous occurrences
Investigating employer complaints in relation to health and safety
Representing employees in consultation with inspectors
Receiving information from employer
What will affect the amount of safety reps
Size of work place and number of locations
Total number of employees
Type of work and risks involved
Variety of occupations at work place
Opperstion of shift patterns
Areas which may not be covered by trade union consultation
What is a hazard?
Anything that can cause harm such as electricity.
What is risk?
How great the chance that someone will be harmed by the hazard.
What are the 5 steps to a risk assessment?
Identify the hazards
Decide who might be harmed and how
Evaluate risks arising from the hazards and decide whether existing controls are adequate
Record the significant findings
Review assessment regularly
What is the hierarchy of control?
Eliminate
Reduce
Isolate
Control - permit to work
PPE
Discipline
When risk assessing a young person what should you consider?
Is it beyond their physical or psychological capacity
Harmful exposure to radiation
Lack of experience
Giving the person a mentor
What are the risks to new or expectant mothers
Physical
Posture, sitting,standing, manual handling, vibration, radiation, temperature
Biological
Hiv, rubella, hepatitis
Chemical risks
Toxic, mutagenic, carbon monoxide, lead, pesticides
Working conditions
Fatigue, stress, passive smoking, temp, heights, violence
Give 5 internal sources of health and safety information?
Absence records
Near miss data
Accident data
Completed inspections
Previous audits
Investigation reports
Give 3 external sources of information
Legislation
Manufactures data
British standard
Give 5 sources of other health and safety information
Risk assessments
Safety reps
Employees
Training records
Employer records
Occupational health
What are the steps to developing a safe system of work?
Assess the task
What is used
Who does what
Where is it done
How will the task be done
Identify the hazards
IDERR
Define safe methods
Write it down and train it in.
Implement the system
Communicate it to the workforce
Supervisors Enforce the system of work
Monitor the system
Review and update when necessary
What works require a permit to work system?
Welding, grinding
Confined space entry
Maintenance work
Live electrical work
Excavations
Work at height
What does a permit include?
Time, date, place
Description of work
Hazard identification
Ppe required
Necessary precautions - isolating electricity
Authorisation
Handover procedure
List 8 types of emergency
Dangerous occurrence
Gas explosion
Chemical spillage
Terrorism
Bomb
Flood
Rtc
Flood
Disease
Environmental damage
Severe weather conditions
What affects the amount of 1st aiders required
Hazards associated with work
Level of risk
Accident and Ill health history
Vulnerable groups - disabled etc
Geographic spread of workplace
Shifts
Distance to emergency services
Remote working
What is the ratio of first aiders to employees
1 to 50 and 1 appointed person
