Health and Safety (2) Flashcards
What defines a prescriptive judicial system?
Systems that set precise requirements that need to be followed in order to comply with health and safety law.
What is a competent person?
A competent person is someone who has sufficient training and experience or knowledge and other qualities that allow them to assist you properly.
What do the RICS consider the concept of a ‘safe person’ to be?
A safe person is an individual that assumes behavioural responsibility for their own, and their colleague’s health and safety while at work.
In relation to health and safety RICS-regulated firms are obliged to ensure what?
A safe working environment, safe working equipment, safe systems of work, training and competent staff
What is the purpose of the RICS requirement for regulated firms to have a management process in place?
To reduce and identify foreseeable risk
What is a health and safety policy statement?
A policy that sets down the firm’s health and safety management objectives and arrangements.
What are some examples of low risks?
Working in own offices.
Visits to known and well-controlled other offices.
Visits to new builds or premises in good condition.
Visits to known tenants’ properties.
What are some examples of medium risks?
Visits to competently manned sites.
Regular journeys driving fewer than, say, 300 miles in one day.
Visits to unknown or unfamiliar tenants’ properties.
Visits to unfamiliar agricultural property.
Unaccompanied visits to property viewings’.
Accompanied visits to some ‘restricted’ areas.
What are some examples of high risks?
Unsecure riversides or ports.
Visits to vacant/remote/unmanned sites.
Visits to potentially contaminated sites where there is a potential risk of pollution, toxic materials or other environmental risk.
Visits to sites where construction work is being undertaken [i.e. anything other than very minor works and particularly where live utilities are partially installed].
Visits to demolition sites.
Visits to large building sites or large industrial estates where the variety of potential risks need careful consideration [e.g. distribution warehouses, units with hazardous activities or deleterious materials present].
Visits to premises where there are hazardous operations/activities undertaken/ manufactured.
Foreign trips [see Foreign Office advise].
Visits where you will be lone working [i.e. alone while at the site or premises including, perhaps, working in remote or rural situations particularly where there are potentially high-risk activities].
Visits to live roads, train stations and airports
What is the first step of a risk assessment?
Identify the hazards.
What is a dynamic risk assessment?
Where risks are assessed immediately prior to undertaking works
What is the intention of a risk assessment?
Either eliminate or control risks.
What is the most common work related incident?
Car collisions generally and falling from height within the construction industry.
What is the most common occupational threat of a building?
Fire.
In relation to occupational hygiene what are some examples of harmful agents?
asbestos and silica dust, welding fumes, chemical coatings, noise and vibration.
