Health and Safety Flashcards
Who are the dutyholders under CDM 2015?
Commercial clients, domestic clients, principle designers, designers, principle contractors, contractors, workers.
What are the duties of a commercial client?
Make suitable arrangements for managing a project, including making sure:
-other dutyholders are appointed as appropriate
-sufficient time and resources are allocated
Make sure:
-relevant information is prepared and provided to other dutyholders
-the principal designer and principal contractor carry out their duties
welfare facilities are provided
What are the duties of Designers?
When preparing or modifying designs, eliminate, reduce or control foreseeable risks that may arise during:
-construction
-the maintenance and use of a building once it is built
-Provide information to other members of the project team to help them fulfil their duties.
What are the duties of Domestic Client?
Though in scope of CDM 2015, their client duties are normally transferred to:
-the contractor for single contractor projects
-the principal contractor for projects with more than one contractor
However, the domestic client can instead choose to have a written agreement with the principal designer to carry out the client duties.
What is the role of PD under the CDM regulations?
Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the pre-construction phase of a project. This includes:
-identifying, eliminating or controlling foreseeable risks
-ensuring designers carry out their duties
Prepare and provide relevant information to other dutyholders.
Liaise with the principal contractor to help in the planning, management, monitoring and coordination of the construction phase.
What is the role of Principle Contractor under the CDM regulations?
Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the construction phase of a project. This includes:
-liaising with the client and principal designer
-preparing the construction phase plan
-organising cooperation between contractors and coordinating their work
Make sure:
-suitable site inductions are provided
-reasonable steps are taken to prevent unauthorised access
-workers are consulted and engaged in securing their health and safety
-welfare facilities are provided
What is the role of Contractors (Those who carry out the actual construction work, contractors can be an individual or a company) under the CDM regulations?
Plan, manage and monitor construction work under their control so it is carried out without risks to health and safety.
For projects involving more than one contractor, coordinate their activities with others in the project team – in particular, comply with directions given to them by the principal designer or principal contractor.
What is the purpose of CDM?
CDM aims to improve health and safety in the industry by helping you to:
-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 the role of Workers (those who work under contractors) under the CDM regulations?
Workers must:
-be consulted about matters which affect their health, safety and welfare
-take care of their own health and safety, and of others who might be affected by their actions
-report anything they see which is likely to endanger either their own or others’ health and safety
-cooperate with their employer, fellow workers, contractors and other dutyholders
What is RIDDOR?
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations.
When are works notifiable under CDM?
-last more than 30 days and have more than 20 workers working at the same time at any point on the project or
-exceed 500 person days of construction work
When should you issue an F10 form to the HSE?
As soon as reasonably practicable.
Can you name 3 sections of surveying safely?
Any of the below:
-Personal responsibilities for RICS members and corporate responsibilities
-Assessing hazards and risks
-Visiting premises of sites
-Occupation hygiene and health
What is discussed in Personal Responsibilities for RICS members and corporate responsibilities for RICS-Regulated firms in Surveying Safely?
Individuals employed by RICS-regulated firms have a direct responsibility to ensure that corporate health and safety policies and procedures are practised effectively and competently.
RICS-regulated firms are obliged to ensure the health, safety and welfare of people at work
by providing, monitoring and maintaining:
* a safe working environment
* safe work equipment
* safe systems of work and
* competent staff
What is discussed in Assessing Hazards and Risks in Surveying Safely?
Fundamentally, risk management means taking adequate time to fully consider how any plan of action could deviate from what you expect.
It talks about the risks members can be exposed to on inspections and the ways they can mitigate the risks such as wearing appropriate PPE.
Simple guidance for risk assessment in regard to occupational health and safety is outlined in
many publications, but can be summarised as:
1 identify the hazards
2 decide who might be harmed and how
3 evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
4 record the findings and implement them
5 review the assessment and update if necessary and
6 advise all those affected of the outcome of the assessment and methods of work, or
other control measures necessary, to minimise or eliminate risk.
What is discussed in Occupational Hygiene and Health in Surveying Safely?
Occupational hygiene uses science and engineering to identify and control exposure to harmful agents in the workplace that cause ill health. Assessing the health risks posed by harmful agents such as asbestos and silica dusts, welding fumes, chemical coatings, noise
and vibration can be a complex undertaking: our understanding of how dangerous harmful agents can be is constantly changing.
Occupational health refers to the mental and physical effects of work on health.
What bags are used of disposal of asbestos waste?
The asbestos should be disposed of in a red inner bag with is then placed in a clear outer bag.
What is licensed asbestos removal?
To be exempt from needing a licence the work must be:
-Sporadic and of low intensity - to be considered sporadic and of low intensity the concentration of asbestos in the air should not exceed 0.6f/cm3 measured over 10 minutes
-Carried out in such a way that the exposure of workers to asbestos will not exceed the legal control limit of 0.1 asbestos fibres per cubic centimetre of air (0.1 f/cm3) (averaged over a four hour period)
-Meet at least one of the four following conditions:
1. It is a short non-continuous maintenance task, with only non-friable materials (friability describes how likely an ACM is to release asbestos fibres when worked on, so non-friable materials will only release a small number of fibres during work); or
2.It is a removal task, where the ACMs are in reasonable condition and are not being deliberately broken up, and the asbestos fibres are firmly contained within a matrix, eg the asbestos is coated, covered or contained within another material, such as cement, paint or plastic; or
3. It is a task where the ACMs are in good condition and are being sealed or encapsulated to ensure they are not easily damaged in the future; or
4. It is an air monitoring and control task to check fibre concentrations in the air, or it’s the collection and analysis of asbestos samples to confirm the presence of asbestos in a material.
What is licensed work?
Most higher-risk work with asbestos must only be done by a licensed contractor.
The Control of Asbestos Regulations define licensable work as follows:
-where the exposure of workers to asbestos is not sporadic and of low intensity
-the risk assessment cannot clearly demonstrate that the control limit will not be exceeded
-work on asbestos coating
work on asbestos insulating board or asbestos insulation for which the risk assessment demonstrates it is not short duration work, for example:
-it will take no more than 2 hours in any 7-day period, and no person works for more than 1 hour in that 2-hour period
Please provide an example of non-licensed work?
-Cleaning up small quantities of loose/ fine debris containing ACM dust (where the work is sporadic and of low intensity, the control limit will not be exceeded and it is short duration work)
-Drilling of textured decorative coatings for installation of fixtures/fittings
-Encapsulation and sealing-in work on asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) that are in good condition
What are the different types of asbestos?
Amosite, Chrysotile and Crocidolite
What type of asbestos is the most hazardous?
Crocidolite
What items/ parts of buildings is asbestos most commonly found?
Pipe Lagging, brake pads, asbestos insulating board (AIB) panels in fire doors, textured decorating coatings on walls and ceilings (e.g., Artex), toilet cisterns, rope seals, cement water tanks, AIB partition walls, loose fill insulation, ceiling tiles, vinyl floor tiles backed with asbestos paper and bitumen adhesive, AIM or asbestos cement soffits and facias, asbestos cement pipe, asbestos cement gutters and downpipes, and profiles asbestos cement roof.
How do you remove asbestos?
Sealing off the work area, using wet methods to prevent dust, notifying the HSE within 14 days if licensed work, wearing PPE, controlled dismantling, HEPA vacuuming to capture microscopic particles, scrapers, knives and chisels to remove materials without creating dust.
