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What is RICS Guidance on safety in surveying?

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Surveying safely: health and safety principles for property professionals 2nd edition, November 2018. This guidance note sets out basic, good practice principles for the management of health and safety for RICS-regulated firms (both corporate or small) and RICS members

it includes:
* general safety
* safety of employees
* workplace fire and first aid
* RA requirements
* Info on visiting sites
* Safety of you and others
* legal duties

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Why is H&S important?

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To comply with legislation, prevent liability, and prevent injury

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What are the requirements for regulated firms?

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All RICS-regulated firms have a responsibility to put in place the framework rules within which their employees are to operate. RICS-regulated firms should inform employees of the rules, policies and procedures and support them in carrying them out. It is the individual’s responsibility to act within these rules and to act responsibly for the health and safety of themselves and others.

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Who is responsible for H&S?

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Both firms and individuals

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How do individuals prepare for H&S?

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Individuals are responsible for knowing and understanding the health and safety risks appropriate to the tasks they undertake. This knowledge may be gained through appropriate training, keeping up to date with relevant information and personal experience

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What is a safe person?

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RICS considers the concept of a ‘safe person’ to mean that each individual assumes individual behavioural * responsibility for their own, their colleagues’ and others’
health and safety while at work.

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How do firms ensure H&S at work?

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RICS-regulated firms are obliged to ensure the health, safety and welfare of people at work by providing, monitoring and maintaining a safe working environment, safe and suitable work equipment, safe systems of work and competent staff.

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What are organisational responsibilities?

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  1. selection of persons based on competence and skills for work activities
  2. training about potential hazards
  3. provide information about risks and control measures
  4. Provide equipment suitable for the purpose
  5. safe systems of work
  6. provide clear instructions to individuals on activities and eqipment
  7. supervise staff
  8. PPE
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What are individual’s responsibilities?

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  1. performing work safely
  2. control actions to work inline with safe systems of work
  3. adapt to changing situations
  4. be vigilant for your own safety
  5. be aware of own ability and limitations
  6. be part of a team
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How does liability for injury affect an organisation?

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Injuries or ill health can have life- changing consequences for the individuals involved, their family and friends. Such events also have the potential to affect the organisation significantly, including reputation and morale, and may have legal consequences.

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Where can you find advice on H&S?

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HSE & local enforcement authorities

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What is a risk assessment?

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An assessment to identify specific risks that might cause harm and controls on how to deal with and reduce or eliminate specific risks. A score is provided to assess the risk before and after controls.

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What is simple guidance for a risk assessment?

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1 identify the hazards
2 decide who might be harmed and how
3 evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
4 record the findings and implement them
5 review the assessment and update if necessary and
6 advise all those affected of the outcome of the assessment and methods of work, or other control measures necessary, to minimise or eliminate risk.

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What is the hierarchy of controls?

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  1. Eliminate (e.g. use alternative means of access)
  2. Substitute (e.g. replace hazardous materials)
  3. Engineering controls (e.g. use equipment to prevent falls)
  4. Administrative controls (e.g. implement procedures)
  5. PPE
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What is a dynamic risk assessment?

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As assessment of risk when carrying out activities to deal with changing situations

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What safety risks do you consider when conducting a risk assessment?

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  • working at height
  • slips, trips, falls
  • first aid
  • fire safety
  • Asbestos and hazardous substances
  • Driving at work
  • lone working
  • physical ability
  • electricity/gas
  • occupational health
  • sun protection
  • environmental factors (poor lighting, weather or noise)
  • Clothing
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What is a contractor?

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‘contractor’ is used to include any person or organisation that is not a direct employee but is contracted to work on premises under the RICS-regulated firm’s or RICS member’s control or to carry out work on the RICS-regulated firm’s or RICS member’s behalf.

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How do you assess contractors for H&S?

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  • competence based on experience, training, H&S management systems
  • membership of a professional body (CHAS)
  • Insurance for public liability and PI
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What are the CDM regs?

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CDM 2015 Regs ensure H&S issues are properly considered and managed during a project. It applies to all building work. Contractors are responsible in domestic work. Commercial clients are responsible for ensuring H&S risks are managed

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What does a Pinciple Designer do?

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  1. Plan, manage and coordinate H&S
  2. Identify and eliminate risks
  3. Ensure clients and designers are aware of their responsibility
  4. Provide info to other dutyholders
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What is a duty holder?

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a duty holder is any person who is appointed to be responsible for a specific aspect of a building or project.

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What are the clients’ responsibilities?

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  • appoint competent contractors
  • allow sufficient time and resources
  • Provide relevant information
  • Ensure PD and contractor carry out their duties
  • Ensure welfare facilities
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What would you get in pre-con information?

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  • project description
  • client’s considerations for hoardings, welfare, traffic and permits
  • environmental restrictions
  • previous H&S files and site investigation information
  • H&S file requirements
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What is in a CPH&SP?

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  • project description
  • process for managing works incl inductions, communication, welfare, site rules and emergency procedures
  • traffic management and specific risks such as working at height, deep excavations, fall prevention, asbestos removal or management
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What is in a H&S file?

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  • project description
  • residual hazards and their management
  • hazardous materials
  • location of dangerous services (e.g. HV cables)
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What is RIDDOR?

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Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations 2013

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What incidents are reportable?

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  • Death and major injuries such as loss of consciousness or life
  • Occupational diseases
  • Dangerous occurrences (explosions, structural collapse)
  • Gas incidents
  • Accidents must be reported where they result in an employee or self-employed person being away from work, or unable to perform their normal work duties, for more than seven consecutive days as the result of their injury.
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What precautions would be required to attend a building site?

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PPE & site induction

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What is cscs?

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Construction skills certification scheme

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What methods have you used on site to manage safety?

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  • RAMS
  • PPE
  • site inductions
  • site inspections
  • safety meetings
  • Traffic management
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What is the role of the HSE?

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  • prevent work-related death, injury or illness
  • provide support and guidance to the public and business
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What are the HSE powers?

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  • visit site without notice and take photos etc
  • issue written or verbal information and advice
  • impose sanctions such as stop and improvement orders
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What is your company’s H&S policy?

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  • prevent injury or illnesses
  • prevent damage to property or equipment
  • prevent adverse impact to the environment
  • carry out RAs
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What kills the most people on site?

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Falls from height

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What is the CCS?

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It is responsible for improving the image of construction and ensures best practices

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What is the H&SAW Act 1974?

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  • It is the primary piece of legislation governing health and safety at work in the UK
  • places a duty on all employers to provide and maintain safe equipment and systems of work without risk to the health and safety of employees or others
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What are the aims of the H&SAW Act?

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  • Secure the health, safety and welfare of people at work
  • protects against risks to health
  • Control dangerous substances
  • Control emissions into the atmosphere
  • employers with five or more employees must have written health and safety documentation
38
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What RICS guidance is there for surveying residential property?

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Health and safety for residential property managers 1st edition, January 2016

39
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Common accidents in residential property?

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slips, trips, falls
icy or wet areas
raised paving

40
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Risks in vacant property?

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  1. vermin
  2. falling materials
  3. asbestos
  4. stability of surfaces or handrails
41
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How to manage risks in residential property?

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  1. do not switch on electricity supply if off
  2. use natural lighting as risk of no power
  3. dress for cold or warm temperatures
  4. signs of vandalism and/or squatters
42
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What are the two types of asbestos survey?

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  1. management survey
  2. refurbishment and demolition survey
43
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What are common causes of fire?

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  1. cigarettes
  2. candles
  3. electrical devices and overload
  4. gas
44
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how can fire risks be managed?

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  1. smoke or heat detectors
  2. CO alarm
  3. extinguishers
  4. fire blankets
  5. gas safety checks
  6. electrical checks
  7. furniture compliance
  8. safe exit routes (lighting and clear of obstructions, protected stairways)
  9. signage
  10. training
45
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What legislation covers fire?

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Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 in England and Wales.

46
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What did the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 replace?

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older legislation such as the Fire Precautions Act 1961 and Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997/1999

47
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What is the aim of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005

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It means that any person who has some level of control in premises must take reasonable steps to reduce the risk from fire and make sure people can safely escape if there is a fire. It covers nearly all types of commercial or public buildings. It does not cover private dwellings other than communal areas

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What are the rules of the Regulatory Reform Order?

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  1. carry out a fire risk assessment
  2. reduce or remove fire risks
  3. consider those at risk (public, visitors, employees)
  4. take measures to protect from explosion or flammable materials
  5. create an emergency plan
  6. regular review (when circumstances change)
49
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Who is responsible for the order?

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  1. an employer
  2. managing agent or owner
  3. occupiers (i.e. self employed)
  4. anyone with control over the premises (FM or managing agent)

All known as the responsible person

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What are the main fire hazards?

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  1. sources of ignition
  2. heaters
  3. fuel
  4. build-up of waste or flammable textiles
  5. sources of oxygen (A/C or commercial oxygen supplies)
51
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What document of the B/Regs covers accessibility in buildings?

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Doc M - covers access and use of buildings

52
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Who carries out a fire risk assessment?

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The responsible person must carry out and regularly review a fire risk assessment of the premises. This will identify what you need to do to prevent fire and keep people safe.

53
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What other legislation covers fire?

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Fire safety Act 2021 - The main focus of the Act is the amendment of the RRO to clarify that it will apply to the structure and external walls and any common parts (as well as all doors between the domestic premises and common parts) of any building containing two or more sets of domestic premises.

54
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What regulations covers asbestos?

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Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012

55
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What is RICS guidance on asbestos?

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Asbestos: legal requirements and best practice for property professionals and clients May 2021

56
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What are the 3 main types of asbestos?

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  • crocidolite (blue asbestos) banned 1985
  • amosite (brown asbestos) banned 1985
  • chrysotile (white asbestos). banned 1999

3 other types but rarer

57
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Why was asbestos used?

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  • thermal resistance
  • high tensile strength
  • weather resistance
  • sound insulation and
  • chemical and electrical resistance.
58
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Where is it found?

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  1. insulation
  2. coatings (fire protection)
  3. AIB asbestos insulating board
  4. asbestos cement (drainage)
  5. thermoplastic floor coverings
  6. Textured coatings (banned 1992)
  7. soffits, boiler flues, corrugated sheets, floor tiles, drainage fittings, ceiling tiles, bitumen products, artex, roof verge undercloak prior to 1999
59
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What is the regulation on management?

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Regulation 4: Duty to manage asbestos in non-domestic premises

60
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What are landlords obligations?

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Landlords have a duty to fulfil the same obligations under the Defective Premises Act 1972 and Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, and normally in respect of the private areas of domestic dwellings they will have duties under Section 3, regarding duty of care, of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.

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What are the requirements of regulation 4?

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  • Take reasonable steps to find materials likely to contain asbestos.
  • Presume materials contain asbestos unless there is strong evidence to suppose they do not.
  • Assess the risk of anyone being exposed to asbestos from these materials.
  • Make a written record of the location and condition of ACMs and presumed ACMs, and keep it up to date (the management survey).
  • Repair or remove any material that contains or is presumed to contain asbestos, if necessary because of its location, condition or the likelihood of it being disturbed.
  • Prepare and put into effect an asbestos management plan (AMP) to manage exposure risk
62
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What is an asbestos register?

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A register of known locations

63
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What is the asbestos management plan?

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A document, developed from the asbestos register, that details an organisation’s approach to managing asbestos.

64
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What is the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act?

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The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 is a landmark in law. For the first time, companies and organisations can be found guilty of corporate manslaughter as a result of serious management failures resulting in a gross breach of a duty of care.

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What is the Occupiers Liability Acts?

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Occupiers liability is the area of law which deals with this duty of care, and it applies to anyone who owns or rents a property that people can visit. An occupier has a duty of care to all visitors to ensure the premises are reasonably safe.

66
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What is legionnaires disease?

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Legionella bacteria from low water temperatures, water storage, deposits in water storage (rust, sludge, scale promote bacteria growth). The temperature of water between 20º and 45ºC

67
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What is Work-related stress?

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  • employer has duty to protect employees from stress
  • an adverse reaction to excessive pressure or demands
68
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What are six ways stress can be reduced?

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demands
control
support
relationships
role
change

69
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What are the signs of stress?

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  • take more time off
  • arrive for work later
  • be more twitchy or nervous
  • argumentitive
  • sickness
  • poor performance
70
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What is an employers responsibility?

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Employers are responsible for the general safety and wellbeing of their employees while they are at work. The law requires employers to carry out risk assessments to identify hazards, including stress.

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What does the RICS H&S checklist cover?

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  • pre-inspection
  • lone working policy
  • mobile phone
  • weather
  • travel
  • tiredness
  • Risk assessment and dynamic
  • personal safety
  • dangerous pets
  • working at height
  • Lofts - bats, rodents, squirrels, asbestsos
  • derelict or empty premises
72
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What is RICS guidance for Covid-19?

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COVID-19 guide to surveying services: Physical inspections for the purpose
of residential valuations and condition-based surveys (England)
* follow UK gov or PHE advice
* check if any vulnerable occupiers
* avoid physical contact
* social distancing
* sanitization
* face coverings
* request empty premises if possible

73
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How do you ensure you comply with legislation?

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Risk assessments, CPD, safety policies

74
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What are the penalties under current health & safety legislation?

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Sanctions include fines, imprisonment and disqualification

75
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Is it a criminal offence to breach the H&S at Work Act 1974?

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Yes

76
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Who is the asbestos duty holder?

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The dutyholder is the owner of the non-domestic premises or the person or organisation that has clear responsibility for the maintenance or repair of non-domestic premises, for example through an explicit agreement such as a tenancy agreement or contract.

77
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Explain the key principles of the new RICS guidance relating to asbestos.

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  • Compliance with regulations
  • Mitigation of risk to surveyors and their clients
78
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What is a notifiable project?

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A construction project is notifiable if the construction work is expected to: last longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers working at the same time at any point on the project or. exceed 500 person days

79
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What are the BSI competence requirements (PAS) that relate to the CDM roles?

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Competency for principle designer, principle contractor and managers to ensure a property is built and mantained in a safe way

80
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What changes have recently been made to COSHH?

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New or revised Work Exposure Limits limits for 13 substances have been introduced on 17 January 2020

81
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Explain any recent changes to Part B that you are aware of.

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  • Blocks of flats with their top storey more than 11m above ground level should be fitted with a sprinkler system throughout the building.
  • Wayfinding signage for the fire service should be provided in all blocks of flats with a top storey more than 11m above ground level.
82
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What is the role of the Building Safety Regulator?

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The Building Safety Regulator will monitor industry performance to inform priorities, set direction, facilitate improvement in competence of both industry and the building control profession and influence their operational standards.

83
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Explain your understanding of the Fire Safety Act 2021.

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The Fire Safety Act clarifies the scope of the Fire Safety Order to make clear it applies to the structure, external walls (including cladding and balconies) and individual flat entrance doors between domestic premises and the common parts of a multi-occupied residential building.

84
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Explain your understanding of the Building Safety Act 2022.

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the Building Safety Act 2022 will introduce new duties for the management of fire and building safety in high-rise residential buildings from 1st April 2023.

85
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Most common type of asbestos

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(chrysotile or white asbestos) was the most commonly used type of asbestos.

86
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Do you think that you may have a duty of care to keep a property secure, even if there is no express provision in your contract?

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property managers or owners must ensure that they operate with the approprite duty of care to ensure that building occupants, whether they are tenants, visitors, or just passing through, are safe from harm as a result of foreseeable threats and risks that may materialize.

87
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Health risks of asbestos?

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  1. asbestosis
  2. cancer
88
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Asbestos notification to HSE?

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  1. licensed (is notifiable)
  2. Notifiable non-licensed is notifiable
  3. non-licensed not notifiable
89
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What regulations cover asbestos?

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  1. HASAW Act
  2. Control of asbestos regs
  3. CDM Regs
  4. RICS Asbestos Practice Note

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