Health and Safety Flashcards
Are you aware of any key legislation/RICS documents relating to health and safety?
- Professional Standard: Surveying Safely - health and safety principles for property professionals, second edition (2018)
-Health & Safety at work (1974)
What does the 2018 Professional Standard: Surveying Safely set out?
It sets out good practice principles for the management of health and safety for RICS-regulated firms and members. It comprises the following:
- Personal responsibilities for RICS members and firms
- assessing hazards and risks
- procurement and management of contractors
- fire safety
- visiting premises and sites
- occupational hygiene and health
- workplace health and safety
Under the 2018 Professional Standard: Surveying Safely, what must regulated firms ensure they provide?
- Safe working environments
- Safe equipment
- Safe systems of work
- Competent staff (i.e. through training)
Under the 2018 Professional Standard: Surveying Safely, what is a Safe Person?
Someone who takes individual behavourial responsibility for their own, their colleagues’ and others’ health and safety at work
What is the HSE and what is its role?
Health & Safety Executive - the UK’s national authority for managing work-related health, safety and illness issues
What is the Considerate Constructor’s scheme and what is its role?
Not for profit organisation created to improve the image of the construction industry. It encourages contractors to implement best practice procedures for site operations and community engagement
Initiatives include promoting cleanliness of building sites and minimisation of noise pollution
What does the Beaufort scale measure?
Windspeed - very important when working at height
What is a risk assessment?
It is a legal requirement for all organisations employing more than 5 people to carry out a health and safety risk assessment of all their significant hazards. It must outline all hazards, who could be affected by them and the level of risk that they could lead to harm.
What does a Health & Safety policy document set out?
- An organisation’s commitment to h&s
- the organisation’s H&S structure and responsibilities
- risk assessment
- details of the organisation’s procedures for implementing h&s policy
what is a risk?
A risk is the probability that someone or something will be harmed
what is a hazard?
A hazard is a source or situation that has the potential to cause harm
What are the Six Pack of H&S regulations?
Introduced in 1993, to outline the steps organisations need to take to comply with their duties under the 1974 Health & Safety at Work Act:
- Display Screen
- Manual Handling Operations
-Provision and use of work equipment
- PPE at work
- management of health and safety at work
- workplace health, safety and welfare
What is RIDDOR and what does it set out?
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (2013)
- Employers have a responsibility to keep a record of any injury lasting 3 days or more in an accident book, which they must keep for a minimum of 3 years after the incident.
- If an injury leads to incapacitation for more than 7 days then it must be reported to the HSE within 15 days of the incident occuring
What is the key fire safety legislation?
Fire Safety Act 2021
When was the Fire Safety Act (2021) updated and what does the update set out?
Following the Hackitt Review (2018), the Fire Safety Act (2021) reforms the Regulatory Reform Order 2005 as it relates to multi-occupied residential buildings,
The Act requires:
1. Regular inspections of lifts to be reported to fire and rescue services
2. Ensure evacuation plans are regularly updated
3. Ensure residents are provided with suitable fire safety instructions
4. Ensuring individual flat entrance doors comply with current standards where the external walls have unsafe cladding
5. Clarifying that the responsible person or duty-holder for multi occupied, residential buildings must manage and reduce the risk of fire.W
