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Health and safety Flashcards

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What is the aim of the Construction (Design and management) Regulations?

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The aim of the CDM regulations is to ensure Health & Safety is considered throughout the entire project process, from conception all the way through the maintenance and demolition.

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What are the Client responsibilities under CDM?

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  • Welfare Facilities are provided.
  • The Principal Designer and Principle Contract Carry out their duties.
  • The all duty holders are appointed, i.e. Principal Designer and Principal Contractor.
  • Provide the Principle Designer with the Pre-construction information.
  • Ensure that minimum health and safety standards are maintained on site.
  • Ensure that the Construction Phase health and safety plan is drawn up by the Principal Designer.
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What is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?

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The Primary piece of legislations covering occupational health and safety in the UK.

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What is the aim of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?

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  • To secure the Health, safety and wellbeing of all people at work.
  • To protect people against risks from work activities.
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What does the Management of Health and Safety at Work act 1999 do?

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• Place a duty on employers to assess and manage risks to their employees and others, arising from work activities.

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What is a Risk Assessment?

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• A Risk Assessment is a systematic examination of tasks, examining the likeliness they will occur, and the impact they will have.

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What is the Health and Safety Executive?

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  • A national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness.
  • It acts in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain.
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What is covered in surveying safely?/

What is the structure of Surveying Safely 2018?

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  1. Personal responsibilities for RICS members and firms
  2. Assessing hazards and risks
  3. Workplace health and safety
  4. Occupational hygiene and health
  5. Visiting premises and sites
  6. Fire safety
  7. Residential property surveying
  8. Procurement and management of contractors
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What are your and your client’s responsibilities under CDM?

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• My responsibility to inform my client of their responsibilities.
Clients:
• Provide pre–construction information to designers.
• Appoint PD and PC with suitable Skills, Knowledge and Experience and ensure they comply with their duties.
• Ensure Construction Phase H&S Plan in place prior to works staring.
• Retain Health & Safety File.
• Ensure Welfare facilities are provided

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What are your and your client’s responsibilities under CDM?

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• My responsibility to inform my client of their responsibilities.
Clients:
• Provide pre–construction information to designers.
• Appoint PD and PC with suitable Skills, Knowledge and Experience and ensure they comply with their duties.
• Ensure Construction Phase H&S Plan in place prior to works staring.
• Retain Health & Safety File.

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What are the requirements for a project to be notified to the HSE?

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Over 500 person days.

• Over 30 working days and over 20 operatives on site at any one time.

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What are the Principal Designers Responsibilities under CDM?

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  • Plan and Manage health and safety during the pre-construction phase of the project through designing out risks.
  • Identify, eliminate or control all foreseeable risks through design.
  • Ensure designers carry out their duties.
  • Liaise with the Contractor to help them plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the construction phase.
  • Prepare and provide relevant information to other duty holders.
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What are the Principle Contractors Duties under CDM?

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  • Plan and manage the Construction Phase.
  • Prepare a Construction Phase Plan.
  • Ensure there are site inductions.
  • Reasonable steps are taken to prevent unauthorised access.
  • Welfare facilities are provided.
  • Ensure that suitable site conditions are provided.
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What does the Management of Health and Safety at Work act 1999 do?

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Placed a duty on employers to assess and manage risks to their employees and others, arising from work activities.

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How do employers manage the health and safety of their employers, as per the Management of health and Safety at Work Act 1999?

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  • Through the Risk Assessments and Method Statements.

* Ensuring that employees understand THEIR obligations relating to their health and safety.

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What would you do if you saw an unsafe practice on site?

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Report it to the site manager.

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On your project described within your case study, how measures did you or your company take to ensure good standards of Health and Safety where adhered to when undertaking work?

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  • Ensure all workers were wearing the appropriate PPE.
  • Producing and preparing Method Statements.
  • Adhering to the principle contractor’s site rules.
  • Attending site inductions.
  • Submitting appropriate RAMS etc.
18
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Does the RICS publish any guidance on Health and Safety for a Surveyor?

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Yes, Surveying Safely

19
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What is asbestos and what was it used as?

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A fibrous form of natural material, that doesn’t rot, is insoluble and non-flammable found in:
• Insulation
• Ceiling Tiles 
• Roof Sheets 
• Lagging on boilers and pipework 
• Floor Tiles
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What is the main regulation covering asbestos?

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The Control of Asbestos Regulation 2008.

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What are the three main types of Asbestos?

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  • White, real name = Chrysotile.
  • Brown, real name = Amosite.
  • Blue, real name = Chrocidolite.
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When was each type of asbestos banned in the UK?

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  • White was banned in 1999.
  • Brown was banned in 1985.
  • Blue was banned in 1985.
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What does surveyinf safely state RICS regulated firms must ensure they provide ? (4 things)

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  1. A safe working environment
  2. Safe work equipment
  3. Safe systems of work
  4. Competent staff
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What is the hierarchy of risk control in surveying safely 2018?

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  1. Elimination - resdesign activity so hazard is eliminated
  2. Substitution - materials/proposed work for elss hazardous one
  3. Engineering controls - e.g use work equipment or other measures to prevent falls when you cannot avoid working at height
  4. Administrative controls - E.g reducing lone working or ensuring good day light
  5. Personal protective clothes and equipment - where the previous methods are ineffective in controlling risk, use PPE
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What is a dynamic risk assessment?

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Assessing the risk of an activity on the day it is being undertaken, ask yourself:

  • is this still safe to continue?
  • Is the working environment still safe?
  • Are there appropriate control measures in place
  • Can everyone get to a place of safety in an emergency?
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What are some standard titles for a simple risk assessment table as per Surveying Safely, 2018?

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What are the hazards? 
Who might be harmed and how?
What are you already doing?
Do you need to do anything else to control this risk?
Action by when?
- Done
27
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What does surveying safely suggest members should do before going to site?

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  • Carry out a pre-assessment of the hazards and risks that are likely to be encountered on site
  • The pre assessment should include the requirement for appropriate PPE

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