Health and Safety Level 1 Flashcards
Why is health and safety important in surveying?
Surveyors are required to undertake inspections as part of their job and it is important that they have regard to their own health and safety along with others around them.
What does your firms Health and Safety Policy say?
Allsop LLP is committed to ensuring the health, safety, and wellbeing of all its employees.
We establish and implement robust processes and procedures for managing health and safety, and allocate clear roles and responsibilities.
Eleanor Deaves - Allsop’s Operations Manager is responsible for updating our policy.
Who is responsible for health and safety in your firm?
We are all responsible.
What does the RICS Guidance note on Surveying Safely (2018) set out?
- Basic, good practice principals for the management of health and safety for RICS regulated firms and RICS members.
- Principles for those involved with the built environment as property professionals and includes health and safety responsibilities
What is the structure of the document?
- Personal responsibilities for RICS members and firms
- Assessing hazards and risks
- Workplace health and safety
- Occupational hygiene and health
- Visiting premises and sites
- Fire safety
- Residential property surveying
- Procurement and management of contractors
What are the key areas of advice that a an RICS regulated firm must ensure they provide?
- A safe working environment
- Safe working equipment
- Safe systems of work
- Competent staff
- RICS considers the concept of a ‘safe person’ to mean an individual behavioural responsibility for their own, their colleagues and other health and safety at work.
- Seeks to ensure that individuals are responsible for their own actions and they have the tools to do their job safely.
- A requirement for up to date personal and corporate responsibility for property professionals
- Legal considerations for employees and employers to advice on asbestos
- Addressing fire safety
What other information is included in the guidance note?
- Visiting premises and sites to include travel arrangements, lone working and PPE
- Buddy system
- Check dated tag if going on scaffolding
- Non slip shoes
- Emphasis on members having correct operational practices in place
What does the Health and Safety at work act 1974 set out?
- ‘Duty to every employer to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all employees’
- Policed by the health and safety executive
- Must report injuries and dangerous occurrences (1995 regulations)
- Must undertake, record and regularly review a risk assessment (1999 regulations)
- A hazard refers to anything that has the potential to cause harm
What does the PPE at work regulations 2022 set out?
- Extends the employers duty to ensure appropriate PPE for employees and contractors include even those in casual employment
- This could include cleaning, security and construction workers.
What is public liability insurance? (PLI)
public liability insurance covers the cost of claims made my members of the public for incidents that occur in connection with your business.
What does a risk assessment consist of?
Identify hazards present
Identify people at risk
Evaluate the risk considering potential accidents.
Record findings
Advise all those on the outcomes of the risk
