Health and Safety

Question 1

What is the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974?

Answer 1

The act defines the duties for employers, employees and contractors regarding occupational H&S. Places responsibility on both employers and employees.

Question 2

What are some employer’s duties?

Answer 2

Provide and maintain safe plant and safe work systems
Ensure there is no risk in material / substance use, handling, storage and transport
Provide information, instruction, training and supervision
Provide and maintain a safe place of work and safe access / egress
Provide and maintain a safe working environment and welfare

Question 3

What are some employee’s duties?

Answer 3

Cooperating with their employers
Take reasonable care of themselves and others
Not to intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse work equipment
To use work equipment in accordance with instruction

Question 4

What is the RICS publication referring to Safety?

Answer 4

Surveying Safely - 2nd Edition 2019

Question 5

What is a hazard?

Answer 5

Something with the likelihood to cause harm

Question 6

What is included in Surveying Safely

Answer 6

A guidance note of health and safety
Personal and corporate responsibility for property professionals
Legal considerations and duties
Assessing hazards and risks
Property professionals places of work
Occupational health – noise/manual handling/asbestos/diseases
Visiting premises and sites

Question 7

What is a risk?

Answer 7

The likelihood of the harm being realised.

Question 8

What are the steps for reducing risk?

Answer 8

Identify the Hazards
Decide who may be harmed and how
Evaluate the risks and decide on precaution
Record your findings and implement them
Review your assessment and update as required

Question 9

What is included in a site induction?

Answer 9

Evacuation procedures
Fire exits
Smoking requirements
PPE requirements
Scaffolding
House keeping
Site specific rules
Site rules

Question 10

What is the HSE?

Answer 10

National independent regulator for work related health and safety aiming to reduce death and serious injury in the work place

Question 11

What is asbestos?

Answer 11

Naturally occurring rock mineral with heat and fire resistant properties
Used as insulation until being banned in 1985
Blue, White and Brown

Question 12

What Risk Assessment is required for hazardous substances?

Answer 12

COSHH assessment (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations, 2002)

Question 13

What regulations are there regarding working at height?

Answer 13

Working at height regulations 2005

Question 14

What does CDM 2015 mean?

Answer 14

Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015

Places a duty on virtually everyone involved within the project

Question 15

What advise does the RICS surveying safely guidance note give to members and firms?

Answer 15

Intended to represent best practice it covers:
Personal and corporate responsibility
Legal considerations and duties
Assessing hazards and risks
Property professional’s places of work
Occupational health
Visiting premises and sites
Procurement and management of contractors and construction work

Question 16

What is the role of the HSE?

Answer 16

Shaping, reviewing and enforcing regulations, producing research and statistics

Question 17

How did the CDM Regulations change from 2007 to 2015?

Answer 17

CDM Co-ordinator is replaced by the Principle Designer
Principle designer and Principle contractor appointed on all projects involving more than one trade contractor
Construction phase plan is required for all projects
Client needs to notify the HSE should the project become notifiable

Question 18

When does a project become notifiable?

Answer 18

Project lasting more than 30 days with more than 20 workers or over 500 person days

Question 19

What are QS’ under the CDM regulations?

Answer 19

Designers

Question 20

Why architects are typically the principle designers?

Answer 20

Involved from the beginning of the design

Can influence the design

Question 21

What is a site waste management plan?

Answer 21

A planning document created prior to construction and submitted to the council
Applies to all jobs over £300k
Details the amount and type of waste that will be produced on a construction site and how it will be reused, recycled or disposed of

Question 22

What does the principle designer produce?

Answer 22

Pre-Construction Information Pack for tender

Question 23

What does the principle contractor produce?

Answer 23

Construction phase H&S plan before construction

H&S file at PC

Question 24

What is included in a pre-construction information pack?

Answer 24

Project description
Client considerations and management requirements (welfare, hoarding etc)
Environmental restrictions and existing on site risks
Significant design and construction hazards

Question 25

What is included within a H&S pack?

Answer 25

As built information
Residual risks
Waste transfer notes
Marked up drawings of incoming services
T&C certifications
Drawing register

Question 26

How would you tell if a hard hat was safe?

Answer 26

Check expiry date, visually inspect it

Question 27

What should be included in a risk assessment form?

Answer 27

Project information
Dates
Work activity
Foreseeable significant hazard
People who may be harmed
Risk level
Mitigation measure
Revised risk level
Acceptable risk (Y/N)
Signature

Question 28

What power does the HSE give its employees?

Answer 28

The right to enter any construction site, no warrant needed.

Question 29

How do you report an accident on site?

Answer 29

Report the accident to the site manager
Record accident in the accident book along with treatment
Employer to report accident to HSE
Accident report much be completed and returned to the HSE

Question 30

What is the Joint Fire Code?

Answer 30

Provides guidance on fire safety and protection on site
Applies to all contracts over £2.5m and lower value high risk projects
Required by most insurers

Question 31

What is covered by the Joint Fire Code?

Answer 31

Provision of smoking areas
Storage of combustible materials
Fire Risk assessments
Provision of fire extinguishers

Question 32

What is RIDDOR?

Answer 32

Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013

Question 33

What is an F10?

Answer 33

The form which is submitted to the HSE to notify a project by the employer

Question 34

What is the role of the principle designer?

Answer 34

Plan, monitor and coordinate H&S in the pre-construction phase
Preparing and providing relevant information for other duty holders
Liaise with principle contractor to help plan and monitor H&S during construction.
Can be an organisation or individual with sufficient knowledge, experience and ability to carry out the role. No requirement to be directly involved in any physical Design work.

Question 35

How did the CDM regs change from 2007 to 2015?

Answer 35

CDM co-ordinator role is replaced by the principle designer
Principle designer and principle contractor appointed for all project with more than one trade contractor onsite
Construction phase plan is required for all projects
Client need to notify HSE if project exceed 30 construction days with 20 or more workers working simultaneously or if the project exceeds 500 person days

Question 36

How often should scaffolding be inspected?

Answer 36

should be daily but as a minimum every 7 days

Question 37

What is included in a Construction phase plan?

Answer 37

-The health and safety aims for the project.
The site rules.
-Arrangements to ensure cooperation between project team members and coordination of their work, eg regular site meetings.
-Arrangements for involving workers.
-Site induction.
-Welfare facilities.
-Fire and emergency procedures.

Question 38

What are the headings on a risk register?

Answer 38

Title
Owner
Risk / Impact
Mitigation
Probability
Impact
Rating
Cost - ID Risk / Contingency