Health and Safety Flashcards
What are the salient points of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974?
- Duty of care of employer to ensure health, safety, and welfare.
- regularly review risk assessments.
- Must report injuries and dangerous occurrences
- Policed by Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – criminal law.
How do you follow RICS Surveying Safely 2nd edition (2018) Professional Standard
- ensure safe person principle
- consider others
- ensure to undertake risk assessments
What is RICS Surveying Safely 2nd edition (2018) Professional Standard?
- Good practice principals for the management of health and safety for RICS-regulated firms and RICS members
- Principles for those engaged in the** built environment** as property professionals and includes health and safety responsibilities:
At a corporate level or at the level of the individual RICS member
What PPE would you take on inspections?
- Hard hat – different colours mean different things
- Hi-vis jacket
- Respiratory protection
- Eye and ear protection
- Hair nets
- Foot protection
- Gloves
what is your company’s lone working policy?
- Undertake risk assessment and dynamic risk assessments
- Schedule lone working on Outlook calendar, include site address, time and contact numbers
- Assign buddy / someone to be responsible for monitoring the lone worker.
- Ensure they have completed CBRE Lone Worker training
- Carry charged mobile phone
- Report any incidents when lone working
- confirm when back
What is the structure of RICS Surveying Safely 2nd edition (2018) Professional Standard?
- P - Personal Responsibilities
- A - Assessing hazards and risks (including risk assessments)
- W - Workplace health and safety
- O - Occupational hygiene and health
- V - Visiting premises and sites
- F - Fire safety
- R – Residential property surveying
- P - Procurement and management of contractors
Safe person – individual who assumes behavioral responsibility for their own and their colleagues h&s while at work.
What is the Fire Safety Act 2021?
Following the Hackitt Review, reforms the Fire Safety Order 2005.
* Regular inspections of lifts to be reported to fire service.
* Evacuation plans regularly updated and for disabled people.
* Ensuring residents are provided with an evacuation plan.
* Responsible person appointed who ensures risk is reduced.
* Ensure flat doors comply where external walls unsafe cladding.
* RICS Guidance Note: Valuation of Properties in multi-storey, multi- occupancy residential buildings with cladding 2022.
What is the guidance on cladding for resi properties?
RICS Professional Standard: Valuation of Properties in multi-storey, multi- occupancy residential buildings with cladding 2021.
To support valuers undertaking valuations for secured lending purposes on domestic residential blocks of flats in the UK.
When do need to undertake a risk assessment?
A legal requirement if there is more than 5 staff members.
How to undertake a risk assessment?
I – Identify hazards and people at risk.
E – Evaluate the risk.
R – Record findings.
R – Review regularly.
A – Advise all affected the outcome and methods to minimise risk.
What is the guidance on a dual stair core?
- Michael Gove announced in July that all new residential blocks over 18m or 7 storeys will need to have two stair cores.
- Mandatory from December 2023 – applications prior are still eligible.
What are External Wall Systems (EWS) forms for?
- Following the Grenfell tragedy, many tall resi buildings have unsafe EWS
- EWS1 confirms building has been assessed for safety.
What is a risk?
Risk is the likelihood (whether high or low) of the harm (e.g. risk of falling on wet floor).
What is a hazard?
A hazard is something with the potential to cause harm to someone (e.g. wet floor)
For a firm with more than 5 employees, a Health and Safety Policy Document should be issued. What 4 points must it contain?
- Policy setting out the organisation’s commitment to H&S
- Details of the organisations H&S structure, with roles and responsibilities.
- A risk assessment and preventative measures in place
- Details of the planning, implementation of the H&S policy and control measures.
Name the 5 levels of hierarchy risk control (to reduce risk)
To reduce risk, the measures are below:
1. PPE: if you cannot remove risk, then wear PPE.
2. Elimination: redesign activity to remove the hazard
3. Engineering Controls: use equipment such as ventilation to remove fumes.
4. Administrative Controls: identify and implement procedures such as lone working policy
5. Substitution: e.g. replace materials with less harmful ones
What is a dynamic risk assessment?
- Changing risks and hazards can occur on the day.
- It requires worker to continually re-evaluate the work, environment and themselves for risk.
What types of risk might require their own specific risk assessment?
- Fire safety
- Substances and chemicals
- Asbestos,
- Lifting equipment and machinery.
What are basic emergency preparations in a building?
- Detection (heat, smoke, carbon monoxide)
- Extinguishers
- Alarms
- Emergency lighting
- Evacuation procedures
Name some hazardous substances
- Asbestos,
- dusts and spores from mould.
- lead paint dusts,
- cleaning products such as bleach,
- pesticides,
What must a surveyor do before visiting a site?
- Risk assessment
- Check PPE requirements
- Contact site manager
Tell me some considerations when inspecting a site?
- Lone working
- Condition of a property – unsafe, derelict, security, site rules, PPE.
- Be aware of rotten columns, broken glass.
- Occupation – is site occupied, who will you meet on the premises.
- Be aware of squatters or aggressive tenants.
- Roof – can roof be inspected from elsewhere rather than going onto the roof.
- Dangerous substances – asbestos, chemicals
What should be considered when lone working?
- Travel arrangements
- Does your manager/firm have your mobile number.
- How will you communicate in an emergency
- Does someone have a record of where you are and what time expected back
What is CDM?
- Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015
- Main set of regulations for managing the health, safety and welfare of construction projects.