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Health and Safety - L1 Flashcards

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What health & safety legislation are you aware of?

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  • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
  • Duty to every employer to ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, the health and safety and welfare of all employees.
  • Policed by the HSE
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How do you ensure that you comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act?

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Visiting sites I ensure to complete a risk assessment to identify hazards and identify risks

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What are the penalties under current health & safety legislation? Is it a criminal offence to breach the H&S at Work Act 1974?

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  • Yes, policed by the HSE
  • Fines and imprisonment are the penalties
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Tell me about your employer’s H&S policy.

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  • BSW implement a strategy based on health, safety, continual improvement, engaging with staff / stakeholders
  • BSW will provide information and training, adequate resources, competent advice, targets and recognition
  • BSW employees are expected to lead by example, reduce risks, be responsible for themselves, share knowledge
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What are your H&S duties as an individual surveyor?

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RICS Surveying Safely states that: Individuals employed by RICS regulated firms have a direct responsibility to ensure that corporate health and safety policies are practised effectively and competently

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What guidance does RICS produce about H&S?

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Surveying Safely effective February 2019

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Tell me something you understand from reading Surveying Safely.

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  • I have a responsibility for health and safety together with anyone under supervision
  • I have a duty to cooperate with my employers policies
  • I should wear PPE
  • Carrying out risk assessment and report breaches
  • Undertake training
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When was Surveying Safely last updated?

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Updated February 2019

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What are the key changes to surveying safely?

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The safe person concept

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What is the safe person concept?

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Each individual assumes individual behavioural responsibility for their own, their colleagues and others health and safety whilst at work
Individuals accept responsibility for own actions and have tools to do job safely

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What must Regulated Firms provide?

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  • Safe working environment
  • Safe working equipment
  • Safe systems of work
  • Competent staff
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What happened in the case of Suzy Lamplugh?

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  • Suzy was an estate agent who disappeared during the course of her work in 1986
  • Disappeared after visit to show a client round the house in Fulham
  • Body never found and pronounced dead in 1993
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Why is the Suzy Lampugh case important for surveyors?

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  • Needed to improve surveying alone standards
  • Lone workers to vet viewers, receive employee awareness training, standard written procedures about what to do
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What is Personal Protective Equipment?

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  • High vis
  • Hard hat
  • Steel boots (lace up not riggers)
  • Eyewear
  • Gloves
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What is a risk assessment?

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  • Legal requirement for organisations of more than 5 staff to document risk assessment of significant hazards
  • HSE 5 step-guide:
    1) Identify hazards present
    2) Identify people at risk of hazards
    3) Risk, likelihood and severity of accidents
    4) Record findings on a form
    5) Review risk assessment regularly
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What is a risk?

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Principles of Health and Safety for Surveying – a risk is the likelihood of harm being realised. Risk increases as severity, likelihood or number of people affected by harm increases

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What is a hazard?

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Principles of Health and Safety for Surveying – a hazard is something that will cause harm to someone; harm to injury or ill health

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How would you undertake a risk assessment before attending site?

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  • Consider inherent risks e.g. lone working, is it a derelict building, is the site secure
  • Informs likely risks
  • Ask colleagues if anyone else been, read risk assessment
  • Liaise with land owner or agent
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What is asbestos?

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  • Insulating material that causes serious health problems and fatal diseases
  • Undamaged no threat to health. Disturbed or damaged it releases small toxic fibres lodge in lungs and cause illness
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What legislation are you aware of in relation to asbestos?

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Control of Asbestos regulation 2012 - non-compliance is a criminal offence

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What do you understand by the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012?

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  • Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 imposes a legal duty to manage asbestos if it is present or presumed to be present
  • Event of breach penalties are unlimited fine and up to 2 years imprisonment
22
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Who is the duty holder?

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Duty holder is the owner of the premises if vacant or tenant if holding a repairing lease

23
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How does asbestos cause lung damage?

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Fibres are inhaled which can cause serious disease developed long term

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What are the two types of asbestos survey?

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1 Management Survey - to locate and assess it and advise on managemebnt and use of premises. No sampling or materials analysis
2 Refurbishment / Demolition Survey - required when some upgrading, refurbishment, demolition. Samples taken and analysed. Recommendations of management made

25
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When was asbestos banned?

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  • Blue asbestos = 1985
  • Brown asbestos = 1992
  • White asbestos = 1999
26
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What is an asbestos survey / management plan?

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  • Management survey or a R&D Survey
  • Management plan should contain / include training for key staff for asbestos awareness and how to deal with asbestos if disturbed
27
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Explain the key principles of the new RICS guidance relating to asbestos.

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RICS Guidance Note Asbestos: legal requirements and best practice for property professionals and clients May 2021
* Mitigation of risk to surveyors and their clients
◦ Visiting sites
◦ Duties to staff
◦ Own premises
◦ Personal safety
◦ Buildings of special architectural or historic interest

28
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What is occupational health?

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  • Surveying Safely February 2019
  • Considers the physical and mental health effects of work in short or long terms
  • Occupational health monitoring: work stress, physical / mental health, violent, bullying
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Why is it important?

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  • Occur gradually over a long period of time
  • Might not be visible e.g. stress or mental health
30
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What are the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015?

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  • Law that applies to the whole construction process on all projects from concept to completion
  • What each duty holder must or should do to comply with the law to ensure projects are carried out in a way that secures health and safety
31
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When was CDM last updated?

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6 April 2015 replaced CDM 2007

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What changes were made to CDM?

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1 Duty holders reduced to Client, Principal Designer and Principal Contractor
2 CDM Co-oordinator replaced by Principal Designer, role mirrors Principal Contractor in design phase
3 Clients duties were strengthened i.e. client must ensure that management arrangements are in place so that health, safety and welfare is secure
4 Construction Phase Plan required for all projects with safety considered at design stage of a project by Principal Contractor

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What is a notifiable project?

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A notifiable project is one where construction is:
* Lasts longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers simultaneously
* Exceed 500 person days

34
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Tell me about your understanding of fire safety.

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  • I know fire requires ignition, fuel, oxygen
  • I know Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 introduces duties for building owners or managers (responsible persons)
  • This implemented the majority of the recommendations made by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry in its Phase 1 repor which required a change in the law
  • This seeks to improve fire safety of blocks of flats in ways which are practical, cost effective for individual leaseholders and proportionate to the risk of fire
35
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What is the key fire safety legislation?

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Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 (last updated 24 February 2023)

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What is your understanding of the Equality Act 2010?

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  • Into force 1 October 2010
  • Purpose was to consolidate stands of discrimination law into one statute
  • Protect people with ‘protected characteristics’ e.g. disability, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion
  • Property owners - relating to disposal of property, giving consent to disposal, managing property, service to the public, exercising public function, reasonable adjustments
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Explain what RIDDOR is?

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  • Reporting Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
  • Work related accident: death for workers, specified injuries for workers, injuries incapacitation for more than 7 days or injuries for non-workers result in taken directly to hospital or non-workers which occur on hospital premises
38
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What is a CSCS card?

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  • Construction Skills Certificaiton Scheme
  • Green - site operative
  • Blue - skilled worker
  • Gold - skilled worker supervision
  • Yellow - regular visitor
  • Red - trainee
39
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What is COSHH?

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Control of Substances Hazardous to Health

40
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What changes have recently been made to COSHH?

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  • Business working with biocides
  • Classification Labelling and Packaging
  • Prior Informed Consent
  • REACH
  • Business working with pesticides
41
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Explain any recent changes to Part B that you are aware of.

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  • Approved document B: June 2022 Update
  • New rules for external balconies for blocks of flats between 11-18 metres
  • Sets clearer and stronger standards which set limits on the combustibility of materials used in external walls
  • These changes build on the changes already introduced to improve building safety in 2018, including the provision for sprinklers in blocks of flats over 11m
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Explain your understanding of the Fire Safety Act 2021.

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  • The Act clarifies the scope of the Fire Safety Order to make clear it applies to the structure, external walls (including cladding and balconies) and individual flat entrance doors between domestic premises and the common parts of a multi-occupied residential building
  • If you are a Responsible Person, you must consider these parts when conducting fire risk assessment
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What is the role of the Building Safety Regulator?

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  • Oversee the safety and performance of all buildings, focussing on high-rise buildings
  • Promote competence and organisational capability within the sector including for building control professionals and tradespeople
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Explain your understanding of the Building Safety Act 2022.

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  • The Act eradicates the idea that leaseholders should be the first port of call to pay for historical safety defects
  • Dutyholders such as the Principal Designer and Principal Contractor will be required to manage building safety risks, with clear lines of responsibility during the design, construction and completion of all buildings
  • Creates a clear, proportionate framework for the design, construction and management of safer, high-quality homes
45
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Which is the most common type of asbestos?

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Chrysotile (white) asbestos

46
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On an electricity site, would you wear steel toed boots - if not, why?

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  • Electrical Hazard (EH) rated safety boots are isolating which means they provide a secondary source of protection from electric shocks or electrocution
  • The surface of the boot is made from non-conductive materials
47
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What are the requirements of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)?

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  • Lifting operations must be properly planned and managed
  • Lifting equipment must be used in a safe manner
  • Lifting equpiment must be thoroughly inspected at suitable intervals by a competent person
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How often should a lift be inspected under LOLER?

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6 months, unless there is an ‘examination scheme’ specifying other intervals, thorough examinations should be conducted every 6 months

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