Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

RICS APC QS (JL) > Health and Safety > Flashcards

Health and Safety Flashcards

1
Q

What is the HSE?

A

Health and Safety Executive
- National independent watchdog for work-related H&S and illness
- Acts in public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

What service does HSE provide to improve safety?

A
  • Protect people’s H&S by ensuring risks in changing workplace properly controlled
  • HSE helps business adapt to changes in occupational H&S law and practice
  • Visit site without notice, talk to workers, take pics and samples (though most inspections planned)
  • Issue written / verbal info and advice
  • Inspections may be to follow complaint / follow-up an investigation
  • Impose sanctions including stop and improvement orders
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

How long should H&S data be kept for?

A
  • Technically forever (depends on nature and intended use)
  • Info such as asbestos exposure may be required to monitor long term illness (i.e. asbestosis)
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

What are the key principles of COSHH?

A

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
- Requires employers prevent/reduce workers’ exposure to substances (chemicals, fumes / gases / vapours / mists, dusts (asbestos / silica), biological agents and germs
- This should be done via measures proportional to health risk
- Common one is cannisters - have to be locked securely in a cage on site

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

What is corporate manslaughter?

A
  • An organisation is guilty of this if the way its activities were managed / organised causes person’s death
  • Gross breach of care from organisation to deceased
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

A member of the public has been injured by work activities and taken to hospital for treatment. What should happen next?

A

Accident reported by responsible party to HSE

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

When are employers required to have written H&S policy in the UK?

A

5+ people

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

What is your company’s H&S policy?

A
  • Prevent work-related injuries / illnesses / damage to property / equipment
  • Prevent adverse impacts to the environment
  • Take responsibility for safety, comply with safe systems of work
  • Act responsively, report incidents and near misses
  • Risk assessments
  • Attend site inductions
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

What is a Contruction Phase Health and Safety Plan (CPH&SP)?

A

Developed during construction phase by contractor, demonstrate how building will be contstructed from safety perspective

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

What would you find in the Construction Phase Plan?

A
  • Project description
  • Management processes for works, inc site inductions, training, communication, coordination, access
  • Arrangements for controlling significant site risks inc deliveries, excavations, preventing falls, site segregation, maintenance, asbestos removal, manual handling
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

What is the Considerate Constructor’s Scheme (CCS)?

A
  • Non-for-profit independent organisation founded in 1997 to improve image of industry - voluntary effort
  • Encourages contractors and supply chain to implement best practice (cleanliness of site etc)
  • Promotes construction
  • Delivers standards benefitting surrounding neighbourhood and community
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

What are the main assessment categories within CCS?

A

3 areas marked out of 45:
- Respect the community
- Care for the environment
- Value the workforce

5 points for innovation and best practices

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Biggest cause of long-term health issues in the construction industry?

A

Breathing in hazardous dust and fumes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Which type of accident kills the most construction workers?

A

Falling from height

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

What measures are there to prevent accidents and deaths on site?

A
  • Eliminate risk of accidents at source (i.e. assembly on ground not at height)
  • Planning and programming - allowing sufficient time to construct effectively
  • Risk assessments, method statements and educating workers
  • Training inductions and CSCS qualifications
  • Ensure safe working sites, access & egress points
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

What is the minimum height of main guard-rail on scaffolding?

A

950mm

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

What does the Beaufort Scale measure?

A

Wind speed- important when externally working at height

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

What is a CSCS card?

A
  • Construction Skills Certification Scheme
  • Proof that individuals on construction sites have apt training and qualifications for the job they do
  • Improves standards and safety on UK construction sites
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

How would the CSCS card benefit people?

A
  • Professionally qualified person is white colour
  • Make aware of H&S issues to consider when attending construction sites
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Is having a CSCS card mandatory?

A

No, at preference of client/contractor

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

When are visitors / workers most likely to have an accident on construction site?

A

First starting on new site

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

When visiting a construction site, what considerations did you give to your own H&S?

A
  • Risk assessment
  • Wearing PPE
  • Site inductions, adhering to contractor’s rules
  • Ensure H&S on meeting agenda
  • Reporting any issues to site management
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

When completing a site valuation on your own, what should you do?

A
  • Before leaving office, advise manager when I’m going, who I’m meeting
  • Suggest time when due back to office / keep company updated on whereabouts
  • Make site manager aware of visit
  • Register / report my visit to site office
  • Bring/wear correct PPE
  • Request to be escorted around the site by site manager if still concerned
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

What H&S hazards have you come across on your projects?

A
  • Site traffic movements
  • Poor lighting
  • Manual handling
  • Slips/trips/falls
  • Working at height
  • Noise
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

What does PPE stand for?

A

Personal protective equipment

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

Examples of PPE?

A
  • Hard hat
  • Steel toe capped boots
  • Gloves
  • Goggles/eye protection
  • Hearing protection
  • High vis vest
  • Face mask
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

What does it mean if a site has been issued with a prohibition notice by HSE?

A
  • Requires site to stop particular activity immediately
  • Must not resume activity until action has been taken to remove/control risk
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

What should you do if you find an injured person on site?

A
  • Assess situation - don’t put myself in danger
  • Raise the alarm and call for help
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

There’s been a serious accident on site. When should automated external defibrillator (AED) be used?

A

When person is experiencing sudden cardiac arrest (heart unexpectedly stops beating)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

RICS guidance for Health and Safety?

A

Surveying Safely - Nov 2018
guidance not regulation

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

Purpose of Surveying Safely guidance note?

A
  • Basic, good practice principles for H&S management for RICS-regulated firms and membors
  • Includes H&S responsibilities
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

What other health and safety guidance is available?

A
  • HSE published similar “Health and Safety in Great Britain” (not focused on construction
  • HSE Five Steps to Risk Assessments
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

What is the concept of a ‘safe person’ as outlined in RICS surveying safely?

A

Each individual assumes responsibility for their own behaviours, as well as colleagues and others’ H&S while at work

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

What is the CDM planning period?

A

Suitable arrangements for managing a project- the regulations don’t say about the duration of the period, but if too short the HSE may consider insufficient time has been allowed

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

Which regulations are applicable to asbestos?

A

Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (produced by HSE)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

5 H&S regulations applicable to construction projects?

A
  • H&S at work act 1974
  • Management of H&S at work regulations 1999
  • CDM Regs 2015
  • Control of substances hazardous to health regulations 2002
  • Working at height regulations 2005
    RIDDOR
  • Control of Asbestos Regulation 2012
37
Q

What is the H&S at work act 1974?

A
  • Basis of UK H&S law
  • Sets out general duties which employers have towards employees and members of public, employees have to themselves and to each other
  • Employers must provide and maintain equipment and systems of works safe and without risk to H&S of employees / others affected by their undertaking
  • General principle “so far as is reasonably practicable”
  • Main employer requirement to carry out risk assessment, record significant findings of risk assessment
38
Q

What does the H&S at work act 1974 aim to do?

A
  • Secure H&S and welfare of people at work
  • Protect against risks to H&S arising from work activities
  • Control dangerous substances
  • Control emissions in atmosphere
  • Employers with 5+ employees must have written H&S docs detailing organisation H&S structure
39
Q

Who enforces the H&S at work Act 1974?

A

HSE - penalties include fines and imprisonment

40
Q

When does the H&S at work act apply?

A

All times- requires consideration from employers, employees, wider public

41
Q

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

A

Requires employers to carry out risk assessments, make arrangements to implement necessary measures, appoint competent people, arrange for appropriate info and training

42
Q

What does RIDDOR stand for?

A

Reporting of Incidents Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations

43
Q

What is RIDDOR?

A

Duties on employers, self-employed and people in control of work premises -> must report serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and near misses

44
Q

What incidents are reportable?

A
  • Death and major injuries i.e. loss of consciousness / loss of a limb
  • Occupational diseases
  • Dangerous occurrences (explosions, hazardous substances)
  • Gas incidents
45
Q

Key principles of LOLER 1998?

A

Lifting Operations Lifting Equipment Regulations
- Place duties on people and companies who own / operate / have control over lifting equipment
- Lifting operations must be properly planned by competent person, aptly supervised and carried out in safe manner
- Requires equipment used for lifting is fit for purpose, apt for task, suitable marked, subject to statutory periodic ‘thorough examination’
- Keep records of thorough examinations and any defects found must be reported to responsible person for equipment and relevant enforcing authority

46
Q

What is the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005?

A
  • Regulations requiring employers to protect employees from excessive noise levels that could cause hearing damages
    2 main action levels:
  • Lower exposure action value - daily / weekly noise exposure level of 80dB
  • Upper exposure action value - daily / weekly noise exposure level of 85dB
47
Q

Are you aware of any recent amendments to Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005?

A
  • Fire Safety Act 2021 (received Royal Assent 29/04/2021)
  • Amends Regulatory Reform (fire safety) Order 2005 with intention of improving fire safety in multi-occupancy domestic premises
48
Q

Key changes as a result of the Fire Safety Act 2021?

A
  • Clarification for who is accountable for reducing fire risk
  • ‘Responsible Person’ must assess and mitigate fire safety risk with both 1- structure and ext wall of building and 2- entrance doors to individual flats and communal parts of building
  • Fire risk assessment for building must be updated to reflect above. Responsible Person can appoint fire risk assessor to assist with compliance
  • Failure to comply can result in enforcement action against Responsible Person
49
Q

What does CDM stand for?

A

Construction Design and Management

50
Q

Key points of the CDM regulations?

A

Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
- Ensures clients, designers, contractors and others consider H&S of those constructing, maintaining and demolishing works
- Statutory duties on client, principal designer, designer, contractor to plan, manage and coordinate H&S throughout project
- Anyone with input on design are considered designers, have responsibility to ensure H&S

51
Q

Key duty holders under CDM 2015?

A
  • Client
  • Principal designer
  • Principal contractor
  • Designer(s)
  • Contractor(s)
  • Workers
52
Q

Under CDM what are commercial clients?

A

Organisations/individuals where construction project is carried out as part of a business

53
Q

Under CDM what are domestic clients?

A

People undertaking construction work in their own homes (or that of a family member) not done as business

54
Q

Under CDM who must make suitable arrangements for managing a project? Inc sufficient time and other resources

A

Client

55
Q

How does CDM apply to domestic clients with no contractors?

A

Only applies if work is carried out by someone else on domestic client’s behalf. DIY (householder doing work themselves) doesn’t apply

56
Q

Who are designers under CDM?

A
  • Organisations/individuals who prep/modify designs for a building product / system relating to construction work
  • Must eliminate / reduce / control risks that arise during construction and maintenance and use of building
57
Q

Key implications of CDM regs for cost consultants?

A
  • If responsible for specifying material / working methods, would be deemed designers and need to consider H&S aspect.
    i.e. brick slip systems, considering spec, ensure no risk of brick slip falls
58
Q

Roles of each of the parties under CDM regs?

A

PD
- Plan, monitor, coordinate H&S PCI
- Identify/eliminate/control risks
- Ensure clients and designers aware of duties
- Provide relevant info to other duty holders
- Liaise with Principal Contractor in planning management, monitoring and coordination of construction phase

Client
- Appoint competent dutyholders
- Allow sufficient time and resources
- Prep and provide relevant info to dutyholders
- Ensure PD and contractor carry out duties

59
Q

What is the role of the principal designer?

A
  • Influence how H&S risks managed throughout project
  • Plan, manage, monitor, coordinate H&S in pre-construction phase
  • Advise client when bringing together pre-construction info, provide info designers and contractors need to carry out duties
  • Work with other designers to eliminate / reduce / control foreseeable H&S risk to anyone affected by work
  • Ensure everyone involved in pre-construction phase communicates, cooperates and coordinates work
  • Liaise with principal contractor, keep them informed of risks that need to be controlled during construction phase
60
Q

What is the role of the principal contractor?

A
  • Manage H&S risks during construction phase
  • Plan, manage, monitor, coordinate construction phase
  • Account for H&S risks to everyone affected by work (including members of public)- plan and manage measures needed to control them
  • Prepare written construction phase plan before construction begins, implement and regularly review/revise to ensure it remains fit for purpose
  • Ongoing arrangements in place for managing H&S throughout construction
  • Consult and engage with workers about health, safety and welfare
  • Ensure suitable welfare facilities provided and maintained during construction
  • Ensure workers have site-specific inductions and any further info/training
  • Prevent unauthorised access to site
  • Liaise with PD to share info relevant to planning, management, monitoring and coordination of pre-construction phase
61
Q

What is the contractor expected to produce in relation to H&S assessment?

A

Construction phase plan, H&S file contributions

62
Q

3 documents included in CDM regs?

A
  • H&S file
  • PCI
  • Construction phase plan
63
Q

What is the F10 notification?

A

Form sent to HSE to notify them of relevant construction project

64
Q

When is a project notifiable to HSE under CDM Regs?

A

If construction work is expected to last 30+ working days, 20+ workers simultaneously at any point of project, and/or exceed 500 person days

65
Q

Who issues F10?

A

Client’s responsibility- this is often delegated to PD or H&S advisor

66
Q

What does F10 form contain?

A
  • Construction site address
  • Name of local authority where site located
  • Brief description of project and construction work it entails
  • Client and contractor contact details
  • Time allowed for construction work, inc planned start dates
  • No. people at work on site at any one time
67
Q

What is pre-construction information (PCI)?

A
  • Vital role in tender docs, enables prospective contractors to be fully aware of H&S and welfare requirements
  • Provides level playing field for H&S in submissions
  • Can provide focus at which H&S considerations of designs brought together under control of PD
68
Q

What’s included in the PCI document?

A
  • Description of works
  • Client considerations, management requirements
  • Hoarding, welfare facilities, traffic restrictions, permits to work
  • Environmental restrictions, existing site risks
  • Significant design and construction hazards
  • H&S file requirements
69
Q

What is the H&S File?

A
  • Doc issued promptly after construction works finished containing info needed during future construction work (including cleaning, maintenance, alterations, refurb, demo works)
  • Parties involved in future works must alert these to any H&S risks that should be considered in planning or carrying out of such works
70
Q

Who’s responsibility is the H&S file?

A
  • PD must ensure file is prepared, reviewed, amended as necessary, then issues to client
  • Client, designers, contractors must supply info that needs to be included
  • Clients must ensure H&S file available to parties involved in future construction works at same site
  • All parties - ensure info included in H&S file is accurate, relevant and promptly provided
71
Q

What should the H&S file include?

A
  • Brief description of work carried out
  • Hazards associated with materials used (i.e. lead paint, coatings that shouldn’t be burnt)
  • Info about removal/dismantling installed plant and equipment
  • Nature, location and markings of significant services, inc underground cables, gas
  • Key structural principles
  • Residual hazards and how they’ve been dealt with (i.e. surveys / info about contaminated land, asbestos)
72
Q

Who should PD pass H&S file to when project reaches completion?

A

Employer and end user

73
Q

Key implications of CDM regs?

A
  • More focus on clients to put in place arrangements to ensure H&S
  • Clients can’t sign legal responsibilities to agents
  • Declaration of how long contractors given to prepare for construction work
  • Clients deemed to assume role of principal contractor for any period during which appointments aren’t made
74
Q

CDM vs PD?

A

PD has power to influence design

75
Q

What do you do if you find asbestos on site?

A
  • Stop work immediately, ensure area is safe and nobody can access
  • Report to site manager, potentially notify HSE
  • Test this by competent contractor to identify type
76
Q

What is the process for removing asbestos?

A
  • Identify, mark location, type, condition
  • Seal off area, appoint licenced asbestos removal contractor
  • Wear apt PPE, air lock created
  • Remove and double bag
  • Taken away by licenced asbestos removal company
77
Q

RICS guidance for asbestos?

A

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

78
Q

3 common types of asbestos?

A
  • Chrysotile (white, industrial and commercial, long curly fibres), most common
  • Amosite (brown)
  • Crocidolite (blue), most lethal
79
Q

Asbestos surveys available?

A
  • Asbestos management survey (manage asbestos-containing materials) during normal occupation and use of premises
  • Refurbishment/demolition survey (R&D survey) - required where premises needs upgrading, refurbishment or demo
80
Q

Where is asbestos commonly found in older buildings?

A
  • Cement gutters and downpipes
  • Corrugated roofs
  • Floor and ceiling tiles
  • Insulated boards, lagging
  • Textiles
  • Soffits
81
Q

What is an asbestos management plan?

A

Crucial doc designed to register and detail how asbestos is managed in a property, what activities will be engaged to ensure people remain safe from exposure

Includes:
- Who is responsible for managing asbestos
- Asbestos register identifying type and location
- Plans for work on asbestos material
- Schedule for monitoring materials’ condition
- Telling people about decisions

82
Q

How can asbestos be managed on site?

A
  • Remove it (eliminates risk)
  • Encapsulate - apply protective layer to contain and protect fibres from damage
  • Manage - set up asbestos management plan
83
Q

What are the main health hazards when someone is exposed to asbestos?

A
  • Asbestosis (chronic lung disease- shortness of breath, coughing, permanent lung damage)
  • Lung cancer
  • Mesothelioma (cancer of thin membrane that lines chest and abdomen)
84
Q

When was asbestos banned in the UK?

A

Amphibole type since 1985. All since 1999

85
Q

What does RAMS stand for?

A

Risk Assessment and Method Statement

86
Q

What is a method statement?

A

Methodology detailing the way work will be completed. Outlines hazards involved, step-by-step guide on how to execute safely

87
Q

What is meant by a risk assessment?

A
  • Identifying hazard that can cause harm to people, measuring risk and identifying method of reducing risk
  • Law requires to protect people “as far as reasonably practicable”
88
Q

5 steps to risk assessment?

A
  1. Identify hazards
  2. Decide who might be harmed and how
  3. Evaluate risk, decide on precaution
  4. Record findings, implement them
  5. Review assessment, update if necessary
89
Q

What is the hierarchy of H&S risk control?

A

Most Effective
- Elimination (physically remove hazard)
- Substitution (replace hazard)
- Engineering (isolate people from hazard)
- Administrative (change how people work)
- PPE
Least effective

RICS APC QS (JL) (23 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions