Health and Safety Flashcards
What do you know about the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?
- Key piece of legislation for workplaces in the UK.
Six key points:
- Provide a safe place of 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 do you know about the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 2002?
- Regular risk assessments of hazardous substances in the workplace must be undertaken
- Hazardous substances must be used as intended
- Hazardous substances must be stored correctly
- Use of hazardous substances must be avoided if at all possible
What do you know about the Working at Height Regulations 2005?
- Only use ladders for maximum 30 minutes at a time.
- ensure workers can get safely to and from where they work at height
- ensure equipment is suitable, stable and strong enough for the job, maintained and checked regularly
- take precautions when working on or near fragile surfaces
- provide protection from falling objects
What do you know about the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR)?
- Reporting is required when the accident is work-related or it results in a workplace death or serious injury (major fractures, breaks, burns, chemical accidents)
- Must be reported if a dangerous event or occurrence (collapse of equipment, explosion, release of dangerous material)
- Accidents must be reported if a worked is absent through injury for more than 7 days.
What do you know about the RICS Guidance Note Surveying Safely?
Guidance Note for members and firms which sets out the basic, good practice principles for the management of health and safety.
Includes things such as the ‘Safe Person Concept’ which places responsibility on both the individual and employer to
Organisational responsibilities within the safe person concept include things such as PPE, supervision, training, safe sytems of work.
Individual responsibilities include, performance, awareness, control and teamwork.
What do Brown & Co do to manage Health and Safety?
- Brown & Co have health and safety facilitators (Jamie) and audits for offices each year.
- Follow the RICS Guidance Note – Surveying safely
- Have a lone working policy
- Follow the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
What do you know about the management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999?
- Employers must undertake risk assessments to identify potential hazards to employee health and safety and anyone who may be affected by their work activity.
- Employers with five or more employees must record any significant findings.
What checks would you undertake prior to attending site?
- Follow the checklist of matters to consider in the RICS Guidance Note - Surveying Safely
- pre attendance risk assessment - review of the surroundings, condition of the buildings, nature of the business / property, whether persons will be in occupation
- any special access requirements
- any roofs, high structures or dangerous substances
- PPE equipment required
- transport to and from the property
- lone working - is it appropriate / necessary?
- verify as much information as I can before attending site.
- continue to assess the risks whilst on site.
How do you ensure your personal safety when you are going out to meetings?
- follow Brown & Co’s lone working policy
- ensure I wear any relevant PPE if the meeting is on site
- ensure my calendar is kept up to date with where I am going and what time I will be back
What is a hazard?
Something that has the potential to damage, harm or cause adverse health effects on something or someone.
What is a risk?
The likelihood that the hazard will cause damage.
What health and safety proposals were submitted as part of the contractors tender for the decoration works?
- Construction Phase Plan
- Risk assessment
- Method statement
- Included details of:
- Working at heights
- Traffic management schemes
- Dealing with members of the public / vulnerable people etc.
What are the relevant insurances that you refer to that a contractor should have?
- Public Liability
- Professional Indemnity
- Employer’s Liability
- Products Liability
What is a Construction Phase Plan?
A document that details the health and safety risks associated with the construction phase of the project and the control measures that will be implemented to minimise risks or where possible, eliminate them.
What is included in a risk assessment?
- Identification of any hazards
- Assessments of the risks
- Control the risks – put controls in place to reduce the chances of harm or remove the hazard
- Record of your findings
- Process to review the controls
What is a method statement?
- Describes the safety precautions in a high-risk work environment to control risks identified in the risk assessment.
What do you know about the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012?
- Requires the dutyholder to take reasonable steps to find out if there are materials containing asbestos in non-domestic premises, and if so, its amount, where it is and what condition it is in.
- The duty holder must have a management plan in place for handling asbestos.
- Applies to all buildings built prior to the year 2000.
- Only licenced contractors can carry out high risk asbestos works, e.g. removal of an asbestos coating. High risk works must be notified to the enforcing authority at least 2 weeks prior to the commencement of the works.
Types of Asbestos
- Chrysotile (white asbestos) is the most commonly used form of asbestos. It can be found today in the roofs, ceilings, walls and floors of homes and businesses. Manufacturers also used chrysotile asbestos in automobile brake linings, gaskets and boiler seals, and insulation for pipes, ducts and appliances.
- Amosite (brown asbestos) was used most frequently in cement sheets and pipe insulation. It can also be found in insulating board, ceiling tiles and thermal insulation products.
- Crocidolite (blue asbestos) was commonly used to insulate steam engines. It was also used in some spray-on coatings, pipe insulation, plastics and cement products.
- Rare types include Anthophyllite, Tremolite and Actinolite.
What is included in an Asbestos Management Plan?
- Who is responsible for managing asbestos;
- The asbestos register you have just made;
- Plans for work on asbestos materials;
- The schedule for monitoring the materials’ condition; and
- Telling people about your decisions.
What is ACM?
Asbestos containing materials
What are the two different types of asbestos survey and when are they used?
Asbestos management survey
- To manage asbestos-containing materials (ACM) during the normal occupation and use of premises
- Locates ACM that could be damaged or disturbed by normal activities, by foreseeable maintenance, or by installing new equipment
Refurbishment / demolition survey
- Required where the premises, or part of it, need upgrading, refurbishment or demolition
- Locates and identifies all ACM before any structural work begins at a stated location or on stated equipment at the premises. It involves destructive inspection and asbestos disturbance.
What do you know about the Construction and Design Management Regulations (CDM) 2015?
- For effective planning and management of construction projects form design concept onwards, including planning, design and management until end of construction
- Ensure health and safety is a part of the development process aiming to reduce risk of injury to those in construction
- Applies to all construction projects but not domestic clients (people doing work on their own homes) but does apply to contractors working on domestic projects and designers
- 5 main parts
What is Brown & Co’s process for instructing works under CDM?
When employing contractors should use ones preferably from the firm’s shortlist of approved contractors, check their public liability insurance and that they have suitable expertise for the job.
What work falls outside CDM?
Doesn’t apply to general maintenance and repair – gardening, cleaning, waste removal etc.
