Health & Safety Flashcards
What is the H&S at Work Act 1974?
It’s an enabling statute for regulations to protect employer’s, employee’s, manufactures and public.
What sections fall under the H&S at Work Act 1974?
S2 - Duties of Employer’s to Employee’s: Ensuring the environment is as safe as possible.
S3 - Duties of Employer’s to others then Employee’s: Ensuring the environment is as safe and not exposed to the public.
S4 - Duties of Employer’s to those concerned other than Employee’s: Ensuring the access and egress made.
S6 - Duties of Manufactures (inc. designers): so design and construction is safe.
S7 - Duties of Employees at work: Take care of themselves and ensure acts do not effect others.
What is the H&S File?
Completed at the end of the job and contributed too by all duty holders. The information of work carried out, hazards not eliminated, structural information, COSHH, information of as-builts and access & egress.
What is included in the pre-construction information?
Project information, planning & management of the site, H&S hazards to be aware of and if known.
What is the Construction Phase Plan?
- Planning (dates, connections, services, programme)
- Organising (Identify risks and control mechanisms for likes of dust, height and appropriate supervisor)
- Teamwork (Inductions, site personal, coordination, responsible person on site)
How do you ensure you are a safe person on site?
- Competent
- Trained for hazards
- Equipment appropiate
- Safe systems of work
- Awareness of your abilities and others
- Teamwork to be done effectively.
- Vigilant at all times
How do you manage on site risks?
- Identify risk (How, COSHH, safety requirements)
- Assess the risk (Who, what, when be at risk)
- Control the risk (Mitigation/omission through control measures)
- Record the risk (What hazards remain, with who ad what)
- Review the risk (Is proposal effective)
What should be considered with lone working?
- Ensure no medical condition that impact
- Understand exits from site
- Be inducted where possible
- Can emergency procedures be put in place.
- Ensure recording of location so people know where I am.
When would the works become notifiable?
HSE requires 500+ working days, or 30 working days with 20+ people.
What is the pre-construction information?
- Project information (descriptions & locations)
- Planning & Management on site (security, access & egress, storage)
- H&S Hazards and addressing them (working from height, COSHH, asbestos)
What is the Surveying safely hierarchy on risk control?
- Eliminate the risk (Redesign)
- Substitution (Choosing to do it another way)
- Engineering controls (Plant where possible)
- Administrative Controls (Enforce requirements for prevention)
- PPE (Control risks with suitable PPE)
What can be surveying risks?
- Noise & Vibration
- Materials under COSHH
- Vehicles ( both driving and surrounding)
- Lone working
- Water works
- High risk areas
What is the CDM Regulations 2015? Who has a duty?
Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015. Focus on all those involved to plan, manage and work as a team on the risks, with duties of all involved.
- Client (Appoints and overviews duty holders)
- Designers (Eliminates risks, provide information)
- Principal Designers (Plan, manage and monitor PCIP, liaise with team)
- Principal Contractors (Plan, manage and monitor works, liaise, inductions, security, consult)
- Contractors (Carry out works to PD & PC requirements, be a responsible person)
What are key legislation to Health and Safety on a project?
- Health and Safety at work Act 1974 - Provides duties to employer, employees, manufacture and public.
- CDM Regulations 2015 - Focus on all those involved to plan, manage and work as a team on the risks, with duties of all involved.
- Personal Protective Equipment 2018 - Provides suitable PPE to wear to meet safety requirements.
- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 - records any accidents (over 7 days) and deaths, diseases or dangerous incidents to HSE.
- Work at Height Regulations 2005 - Prevent risks from falling.
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health 2003 - Identify deleterious materials and doing a risk assessment on them.
What is a responsible person?
Can be organisational or individual:
Organisational: Competent person, relevant training, information liaised, equipment, safe systems for activity, awareness of limitations, teamwork.
Individual: Performance for competency, control of work system, adapting with Risk Assessments, vigilant, awareness of the surrounds, teamwork.
