Health and Safety Flashcards
What is the HSE?
The Health and Safety Executive - national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness. Acts in public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across UK workplaces
Define what service the HSE provides in a project?
- The HSE is there to protect peoples health and safety ensuring risks in the changing workplace are properly controlled
- The HSE helps businesses adapt to changes in occupational health and safety law and practice
What is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?
Act of Parliament that sets out the framework for managing workplace health and safety in the UK
What are the key points of the Health and Safety at Work Act?
- Provide a safe place for work
- Provide safe equipment
- Ensure staff are properly trained
- Carry out risk assessments
- Provide proper facilities
- Appoint a competent person to oversee health and safety
What is the Surveying Safely guide?
Sets out basic, good practice principles for the management of health and safety for RICS-regulated firms and RICS members.
It sets out principles for those engaged in the built environment as property professionals and includes health and safety responsibilities for both corporate level and individual members
Surveying Safely - What are your personal responsibilities?
- Report actual or perceived health & safety breaches in good time
- Carry out a personal risk assessment and report any perceived, potential, or actual risks to your employer
- Wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Undertake staff training
What is the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015?
Regulations governing the way construction projects of all sizes and types are planned in the UK
What is the aim of CDM?
- sensibly plan the work so the risks involved are managed from start to finish
- have the right people for the right job at the right time
- cooperate and coordinate your work with others
- have the right information about the risks and how they are being managed
- communicate this information effectively to those who need to know
- consult and engage with workers about the risks and how they are being managed
What is a site induction?
Site induction is the process of ensuring workers on construction sites are fully informed about the organisation and operation of the site and of their responsibilities. It focuses in particular on safety aspects of the site
What does a site induction include?
- Senior management commitment to health and safety
- Outline of the project;
- Management of the project;
- First-aid arrangements;
- Accident and incident reporting arrangements;
- Arrangements for briefing workers on an ongoing basis, e.g. toolbox talks;
- Arrangements for consulting the workforce on health and safety matters;
- Individual worker’s responsibility for health and safety.
What is The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme?
Type of accreditation that proves a business’s health and safety processes meet excellent standards
What examples of supporting evidence would be submitted?
- Health and safety policies
- Evidence of risk assessments and method statements
- Records of on-site health and safety inspections
- Insurance documents
- Proof of training and certification
What is a F10 under the CDM Regulations?
Notification of a construction project to the HSE
When is a construction project ‘notifiable’?
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
What is a pre-construction information plan + who produces that?
- Document which provides the information already in the Client’s possession, or which is reasonably obtainable, to relevant CDM Duty Holders, such as Designer(s), Contractor, or Principal Contractor
- The Principal Designer on behalf of the client
