Health and Safety - Level 2 Flashcards
What is the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?
- Sets out duties of employers etc.
- must safeguard health and safety of public and employees
- Enforced by Health and Safety Executive
What are the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulation 1999?
Requires employers to:
- carry out risk assessments
- make arrangements to implement measures
- appoint competent people
- arrange appropriate information and training.
What is the significance of Defective Premises Act 1972?
- Imposes obligation on landlord to ensure the premises comply with its requirements
- Section 4 - requires landlord to provide a duty of care.
Give examples of risk
- Asbestos
- Legionella
- Lifts
- Fire risk - compartmentation etc
- Contractors - working at height
What do you consider on inspection?
Lone working Condition of property Travelling to and from site Site rules COVID
What is the RICS guidance for health and safety?
Surveying Safely - Health and safety principles for property professionals 2018
What is included in the RICS Guidance Note ‘Surveying Safely - Health and safety principles for property professionals 2018’
- personal responsibilities for RICS members and firms
- assessing hazards and risks
- workplace health and safety
- Occupational health and hygiene
- visiting premises and sites
- fire safety
- residential property surveying
- Procurement and management of contractors
What must RICS Regulated Firm do?
- A safe working environment
- Safe working equipment
- Safe system of work
- Competent staff
What does RICS considers the a ‘safe person’?
Each individual assumes individual behavioural responsibility for their own, their colleagues and other’s health and safety while at work.
What must you do before a site inspection?
- Tell someone where you are going and when you leave site.
- Wear appropriate protective clothing
- Sign in and out of a building site.
- Consider whether it is safe to inspect alone.
- Wear non-slip shoes
What does the HSWA 1974 state?
The duty of every employer to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all employees’
Who is the HSWA 1974 policed by?
HSE
What is the five step approach for risk assessments set out by HSE?
- Identify the hazards present
- Identify the people at risk from the hazards e.g. employees, contractors
- Evaluate the risk, considering the likelihood and severity of any accidents. Existing controls in place should be identified and evaluated.
- Record the findings
- Review the risk assessment regularly.
What is Public Liability Insurance?
it covers firms against damages brought against them if a member of the public is damaged/injured.
When is a workplace HSRA required?
When there is more than 5 employees
What should be included in a HSRA?
- Policy setting out organisation’s commitment to h&s
- Details of organisation’s h&s structure
- A risk assessment for the workplace
- Details of planning and control measures
What is the ‘six pack’ of H&S regulations?
- Management of H&S at work
- Display screen equipment
- Manual handling operaitons
- Personal protective equipment at work
- Provision and use of work equipment
- Workplace health, safety and welfare
What are the key principles of the Fire Risk Management Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005?
- applies to non-domestic property in england and wales
- based on risk assessment with emphasis on fire preventation
- defines ‘Responsible Person’ as the employer, occupier who controls the property, or owner if vacant
- requirement for risk assessment and records
- requirement for fire precautions and detections systems
What are the IFSS?
International Fire Safety Standards.
These are supported by RICS to ensure consistent high-level principles for fire safety.
What is the RICS action and advice following Grenfell?
RICS issued guidance on existing high-rise buildings fire safety in October 2017
RICS responded to the government’s call for evidence on the effectiveness of the Fire Safety Order 2005 to provide a suitable framework for the management of fire safety in non-domestic premises and the common parts of multi-occupied residential buildings
What is RIDDOR?
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
What does RIDDOR say about Covid?
- if someone contacts or dies of covid in a workplace you should report it to HSE
Explain the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
The trigger date for reporting injuries is over 7 days incapacitation
This injury needs to be reported to HSE within 15 days of incident
All employers must keep a record of injuries of 3-days plus
Accident records must be kept for 3 years
What is the Occupiers Liability Act 1957?
The Act regulates the liability of occupiers and others for injuries caused to lawful visitors as well as for damage caused to any goods as a results of ‘dangers due to the state of the property’
A common duty of care is imposed to lawful visitors.
What is covered in the OLA 1984?
Trepassers
What is the key legislation for Asbestos?
The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
non compliance is a criminal offence
What are the three types of asbestos?
- Brown - amosite
- Blue - crocidolite
- White - chrysotile
What is asbestos?
It is an insulting material, that when disturbed it can cause health problems or death.
HSE estimate that is it found in 4 million UK properties and causes around 5000 deaths a year
What are the different types of asbestos survey?
- Management Survey
- to locate and assess it and advise on its management during normal occupation and use of premises
- no sampling of materials in undertaken - Refurbishment/demolistion survey
- required where the premises, or part of it, needs upgrading, refurishment or demolition.
- samples are taken
What are the steps that a duty holder must take for asbestos management?
- Assess if asbestos is present - if yes then where and the condition. If in doubt presume it contains asbestos.
- Assess the risk and produce a plan to manage the asbestos - encapsulate or remove?
- Produce an asbestos register
- Make the register available to all parties who might disturb it
- Review the register bi annually.