HEALTH AND SAFETY - Level 2 Flashcards
- What are your duties under CDM?
- Considered Designer under CDM regs – instruct design
- Make client aware of duties
- communicate, cooperate and coordinate and provide relevant info to dutyholders
- Ensure foreseeable risks are eliminated or minimized where modifying design
- What’s the role of a PD?
o Identifies foreseeable design risks and coordinates and manages eliminating these of having control management in place – pre contract
o Ensuring designers carry out there duties
o Liaison with Principal Contractor in regards to construction risks - keeping them informed of any risks that need to be controlled during the construction phase
o Preparation of key documents and assisting client to bring together pre-construction information.
o Cooperation with other members of the team – Client, Contractor, Designers
- How do you approach a site visit?
- Research the site / address, how I would get there if going alone
- Risk Assessment
- Inform Line Manager when going and leaving site
- Sign In and Out, Site Induction
- Wear PPE
- Chaperoned visit – have awareness of any risks noted during induction
- Sign out and inform Line Manager leaving the site
- Can you tell me about two key site health and safety risks on one of your projects.
• Varcoe Road – currently under construction.
materials left in walkways (risk of trips and falls) and also Ladders not being secured well risk of this slipping. I took photographs of this and also followed up what I raised by email.
Colville
- Requirement to excavate for raft - risk of falls / collapse
- Demolition - ensuring site is secure from public
- What recent changes were undertaken to Part B? Approved Document B
2018 – Ban on Combustible materials prohibiting the use of combustible materials anywhere in the external walls of high-rise buildings over 18m above ground level, containing one or more dwellings.
2020-
• Sprinklers- Any flats greater than 11m storey height, guidance now requires sprinklers throughout the building
• provision of ‘wayfinding signage for the Fire Service’ in buildings. This change is set out in paragraph 15.13 and states that, “To assist the fire service to identify each floor in a block of flats with a top storey more than 11m above ground level (see Diagram D6), floor identification signs and flat indicator signs should be provided.”
- What is the HSE?
- Stands for Health and Safety Executive
* Regulating body for Health and Safety matters in the workplace the in Britain
- What are the Clients duties under CDM.
- Ensuring adequate Welfare provided on sites
- Ensuring appointments are made for other duty holders (adequate time and resource)
- Ensure relevant info is prepared and issued to dutyholders.
- Cooperating with other duty holders
- Issuing F10 for notifiable projects
- What’s an F10?
Certificate used to notify the HSE of Construction Works taking place for notifiable projects
What makes a project notifiable?
- last longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers working at the same time at any point on the project or
- exceed 500 person working days
What would you typically expect to see in RAMS?
Risk Assessment & Method Statement
Risk assessments identify, quantify, and then control risks
Method Statements describe detailed steps on how to complete the job and avoid the risk identified in the risk assessment (i.e. how to do the job safely)
Types of Asbestos
Chrysotile, Amosite, Crocidolite
- Can you explain how you have followed Covid policies on one of your projects, particularly when you have visited site?
- Construction Leadership Council Guidance
- Hand washing
- Distance
- Time only need
- Ventilation
- Wearing a mask
As a Project Manager/Contract Administrator, would you have any contractual right to address health and safety issues on a building site, or any obligation to do so?
- Not named as PD or PC under the contract. However, it is best practice and I have a duty of care to raise any concerns I may see when visiting a site .
- RICS Surveying Safely considers the concept of a ‘safe person’ to mean that each individual assumes individual behavioral responsibility for their own, their colleagues’ and others’ health and safety while at work.
What is the H&S at work act 1974
Overarching legislation in Britain relating to workplace H&S aims to protect people from the risk of injury or ill health
H&S at work act Employers responsibilities?
- A safe place to perform the work in
- Safe equipment and machinery to perform the work
- They must ensure work colleagues are competent in their roles
- They must carry out the relevant risk assessments
- They should appoint a ‘competent person’ to oversee the health and safety
