Health and Safety - Specific Questions Flashcards
Tell me about RICS Surveying safely: health and safety principles for property professionals, 2018.
- RICS-regulated firms - responsibility to have rules within which employees operate.
- members - responsibility to ensure health and safety policies are followed
- Safe Person concept - Each individual assumes individual behavioural responsibility for their own, their colleagues’ and others’ health and safety
- Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
o covers fire safety in non-domestic property ( inc common areas of multi-occupied residential buildings)
o risk assessment and fire prevention
o reasonable steps to reduce the risk from fire escape safely
o applies to any place (other than a private dwelling) where a person works.
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
o Places a legal duty on employers to ensure the health and safety of employees
o 4 main objectives
- Provide safe place of employment
- Provide safe working environment
- Written health and safety policy/ risk assessment
- Look after Health and safety of others
- Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 - overview
o Regulations how construction projects are planned in the UK.
o aim to improve the overall health, safety of those working in construction
o legal duties on all involved in a construction project
Client responsibilities under - Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015
o managing project.
o ensuring:
- duty holders appointed
- sufficient resources
- welfare facilities
- Riddor 2013
o requires employers to report and keep records of:
- accidents causing death and serious injuries
- dangerous occurrences
- PPE at Work
Regulations under HSWA 1974
o duty on employer to ensure that PPE is provided to employees who may be exposed to a risk while at work.
responsibilities of corporations under - Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
It is an employer’s duty to protect the health, safety of their employees and other people who might be affected by their business
o Ensuring workers and others are protected from risks to injury or health in the workplace.
o Risk assessments
o Must provide information about the risks in your workplace and how you are protected, also instruct and train you
Tell me about Components of risk assessments
- IDENTIFY - identify the hazards
- WHO - decide who might be harmed and how
- EVALUATE - evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
- RECORD- record the findings and implement them
- REVIEW - review the assessment and update if necessary and
- ADVISE - advise all those affected of the outcome of the assessment and methods of work, or other control measures necessary, to minimise or eliminate risk.
Tell me about Requirements of fire safety management.
Assess: o construction of the building o Fire protection measures o Use of the property o Occupants o Fire loading
Tell me about Nationwide’s health and safety policy
- Nationwide has an extensive health and safety policy including a fire safety policy and fire management strategy.
- Regular training and must provide statement that they understand and can comply with the policy.
Tell me about Nationwide’s Covid-19 protocol.
Covid 19
- Booking script
- Ring before
- Sanitise
- Prep occupier etc
Windmill Place CR5 how did you assess risk?
- Risk assessment prior to inspection
- Dynamic risk assessment upon arrival
Windmill Place CR5 Tell me about the risk assessment
- identify the hazards
- decide who might be harmed and how
- evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
- record the findings and implement them
- review the assessment and update if necessary and
- advise all those affected of the outcome of the assessment and methods of work, or other control measures necessary, to minimise or eliminate risk.
Windmill Place CR5 What PPE did you take and why?
- Hard hat
- Steel toe capped boots
- High vis
