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Health and Safety Flashcards

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What is the RICS’ key document regarding health and safety?

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RICS Guidance Note: Surveying Safely: Health and Safety Principles of Property Professionals, 2nd edition, 2019

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What is the structure of RICS Guidance Note: Surveying Safely: Health and Safety Principles of Property Professionals, 2nd edition, 2019?

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  1. Personal responsibilities for RICS members and corporate responsibilities for RICS regulated firms
  2. Relevance to RICS professional groups
  3. Assessing hazards and risks
  4. RICS members’ places of work
  5. Occupational hygiene and health
  6. Visiting premises and sites
  7. Fire safety
  8. Residential property surveying
  9. General procurement and management of contractors
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What is the ‘safe person’ concept?

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Each individual assumes individual behavioural responsibility for their own, their colleagues’ and others’ health and safety while at work

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What does an RICS regulated firm need to provide to ensure health, safety and welfare of people at work?

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By providing, monitoring and maintaining:
A safe working environment
Safe work equipment
Safe systems of work
Competent staff

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What is the objective of the ‘safe person’?

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To ensure that:
The individuals who work in all environments, including those presenting potentially higher risks, are safe and remain healthy at all times
The individuals concerned accept the prime responsibility for their own well-being

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What are the two aspetcs of the ‘safe person’?

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Organisation responsibility
Individual responsibility

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What do organisation responsibilities for H&S include?

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Selection - everyone having or being able to develop, the job skills and competence to meet the demands of their work activities
Training - including providing knowledge about the potentional hazards in a working environment
Information - providing information about risks and control measures associated with their working environment
Equipment - providing staff with equipment suitable for purposes for which it is intended
Safe systems of work - these ensure that work activities are undertaken safely
Instruction - individuals must recieve clear instructions, supervision and expert support where necessary
Supervision - supporting stagg with clearly defined lines of communication
PPE - Providing individuals with appropriate PPE that meets appropriate specifications

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What do individual responsibilities for H&S include?

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Performance - being competent to perform work safely
Control - being able and prepared to work within accepted or designated systems of work
Adaptability - being able to recognise and adapt to changing circumstance at all times
Vigilance - remaining vigilant for own safety and that of others
Awareness - being able to recognise own abilities and limitations
Teamwork - being an effective member of a team

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What is the hierarchy of risk control?

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Risks should be reduced to the lowest reasonably practicable level by taking preventative measures in order of priority:
1. Elimination
2. Subsitution
3. Engineering controls
4. Administrative controls
5. Personal protective clothes and equipment

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What did you learn form the IOSH Managing Safety Course?

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Awareness of the key health and safety and environmental activities that property managers are responsible for
How to identify risks and hazards
How to mitigate risk and monitor health and safety at the properties I manage

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What health and safety legislation are you aware of?

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Health and Saftey at Work Act 1974
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015

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What is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?

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Primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in the UK
Places duties on all employers to ensure the health, safety and welfare of employees and others who might be affected by the business activities
Requires employers to have a H&S policy

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What is the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

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Duty on employers to assess and manage risks to their employees and others, arising from work activities, through the Risk Assessments and Method Statements
Ensuring that employees understand their obligations relating to their health and safety.

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What is the Construction (design and management) regulations 2015?

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Aims to ensure health and safety is considered throughout the entire project process, from conception all the way through the maintenance and demolition

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How do you ensure that you comply with H&S legislation?

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Apply appropriate and proportionate controls for risk and injury

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What are the penalties for breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?

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Maximum penalty:
12 months imprisonment and/or unlimited fine

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What do you understand from reading Surveying Safely?

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Guidance note setting out good practise principles for the management of health and safety for RICS regulated firms and members

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What is a risk assessment?

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A Risk Assessment is a systematic examination of tasks, examining the likeliness they will occur, and the impact they will have.

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What is risk?

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Likelihood that harm will occur and severity of the harm

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What is a hazard?

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Something with the potential to cause harm

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Accoridng to The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, what is the process for carrying out 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 the precautions
  4. Record the findings and implement them
  5. Review the assessment and update if necessary
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What is asbestos?

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Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral composed of flexible fibers that are resistant to heat, electricity and corrosion

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What are the three types of asbestos?

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White (Chrysotile)
Brown (Amosite)
Blue (Chrocidolite)

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What is the risk of asbestos?

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Exposure is linked to cancer and other diseases

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What is the key regulation in regard to asbestos?

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Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012

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What do the Control of Asbestos Regulations say in regard to the management of property?

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Duty holder has responsibility to manage asbestos
Duty holder is the owner or person/organisation that has clear responsibility for maintenance or repair of non-domestic property

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What are the two types of asbestos survey?

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Management survey
Demolition survey

28
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When was asbestos banned?

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The importation, supply and use of all asbestos has been banned in the UK since 1999; the amphibole type (blue and brown) has been banned since 1985

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What is occupational health?

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Promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social wellbeing of workers in all occupations

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What are the CDM regulations?

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The Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015
Main set of regulations for managing the health, safety and welfare of construction projects

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What is the key piece of fire safety regulation?

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The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005

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What is your understanding of The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005?

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Owners, managers and operators of a business need to make sure:
1. Premises meet the required standards
2. Employees are provided with adequate fire safety training
Applies to most buildings and structures that are not private homes

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What is LOLER?

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Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998
Regulations place duties on people and companies who own, operate or have control over lifting equipment
Requires that all lifting equipment is fit for purpose and subject to statutory thorough examination

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What is a dynamic risk assessment?

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Continually re-evaluating the work, working environment and competence of themselves and other to continue to the work activity

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What are some different types of risk that may be encountered in a working environment?

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  • Working at height
  • First said
  • Fire safety
  • Use of mobile and desktop work equipment, including technology tools
  • Sustances and chemicals
  • Manual handling and MSDs
  • Work-related stress
  • Asbestos
  • Management of water systems
  • Use of lifting equipment and work machinery
  • Driving at work and management of transport systems
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What is RIDDOR?

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Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013
Puts duties on employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences (near misses).

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What is COSHH?

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Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002
Law that requires employers to control substances that are hazardous to health

38
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What is the penalty for non-compliance with the Control of Asbestos Regulations?

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It’s a criminal offence, currently punishable with a fine of an unlimited amount and/or imprisonment for up to two years

39
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Name some H&S measures your employer has implemented in your workplace?

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First aid training / first aid kits
Health and safety posters
Desktop risk assessments
Manual handling training
Fire drills and appointed fire marshals

40
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When is a construction project notifiable?

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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

41
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When is an incident RIDDOR reportable?

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  • Death of a person
  • Specified injuries to workers (e.g. fractures, amputations, sight loss)
  • Over 7 consecutive days incapacitation of a worker (over 3 days need to be recorded by not reported)
  • Non fatal accidents of non-workers where they are taken to hospital
42
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What is the shelf life of a hard hat?

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5 years from manufacture

43
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How do you calculate a risk rating?

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Risk = likelihood x severity
Total is out of 25

44
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What is a permit to work?

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  • Where proposed work is identified as having a high risk, strict controls are required
  • Permit to work is a documented procedure that authorises certain people to carry out specific work within a specified time frame
  • Sets out precautions required to complete the work safely based on a risk assessment
  • E.g. working at height or hot works
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What are the different building regulations?

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Set of stands to ensure the health, safety and high standards of the construction of buildings in the UK.
* Part A – Structure
* Part B – Fire safety
* Part C – Site preparation and resistance to contaminants and moisture
* Part D – Toxic substances
* Part E – Resistance to the passage of sound
* Part F – Ventilation
* Part G – Hygiene
* Part H – Waste disposal
* Part J – Combustion appliances and fuel storage systems
* Park K – Protection from falling, collision and impact
* Part L – Conservation of fuel and power
* Part M – Access to facilities and buildings

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