Health & Safety

Question 1

What are some of your firms corporate health and safety policies

Answer 1

To provide adequate and appropriate training

Ensure responsibilities are discharged in a safe manner

Question 2

What is the health and safety at work act 1974 about?

Are you aware of any other legislation associated with this

Answer 2

It aims to protect people from the risk of injury

Requires that work places provide adequate training, adequate welfare provisions

Personal protective equipment at work regulations 1992

Question 3

What are your employer’s responsibilities under the health and safety at work act

Answer 3

Safety arrangements in place for the use, handling and storage of items.
- Information, instruction and training for staff.
- Provision and maintenance of means of access to and egress of the work space.
- Safe working environment

Question 4

What are your individual responsibilities under the health and safety at work act

Answer 4

• To take reasonable care for yourself and others.
• Cooperate with the employer to minimise risk to self, colleagues and others potentially affected by actions
• Report actual or perceived breaches in good time
• Wear PPE
• Undertake staff training
• Employers have a duty to carry out risk assessment

Question 5

What regulation is to do with the health and safety on a construction project

Answer 5

CDM 2015 Regulations

Construction, Design and management

Question 6

Control asbestos regulations 2012 - what are the 3 main types of asbestos

Answer 6

Chrysotile (white) - curly fibres

Amosite (brown)

Crocidolite (Blue)

Question 7

Name some types of asbestos survey

Answer 7

Asbestos management survey

Refurbishment / Demolition survey

Question 8

What is regulation 4 of the control of asbestos regulation 2012

Answer 8

‘Duty to manage asbestos in non-domestic premises’
Obliges the dutyholder to manage the risk from asbestos in non-domestic premisses, so to ensure that workers are no longer knowingly exposed to any potential or real risk.

Question 9

Who is the main duty holder for the control of asbestos regulation

Answer 9

Any person or organisation that has clear responsibility for the maintenance or repair of non domestic premises

Question 10

Tell me about the building safety act

Answer 10

The Building Safety Act passed Royal Assent on 28 April 2022.
Provisions in relation to ‘higher risk buildings’ currently any residential building of 6 storeys or above or 18m.
The introduction of new gateways during the planning and construction process have been introduced as well as a Golden Thread of information.

Question 11

What are the gateways of the building safety act

Answer 11

Gateway 1 - planning
Gateway 2 before building work starts
Gateway 3 when building work is completed

Question 12

What is the golden thread of information

Answer 12

The information about a building that allows someone to understand a building and keep it safe

Information management to ensure it is accurate, easily understandable

Question 13

You mention that there maybe further changes likely to come into force following the building safety act, what are they likely to be

Answer 13

The height of higher risk buildings are to be reduced to 4 stories and above

Question 14

What is RICS surveying safety

Answer 14

It is a guidance note which provides best practice guidance for the management of health and safety for RICS regulated firms and members

Question 15

What is the current edition of RICS surveying safety

Answer 15

Second edition November 2018

Question 16

What is the safe person concept

Answer 16

Each individual assumes individual behavioral responsibilities fortheir own, their colleagues and others’ health and safety while at work

Question 17

Who are the duty holders under CDM 2015

Answer 17

Client principal designer
Principal contractor
Designers
Contractors

Question 18

What are clients duties under CDM 2015

Answer 18

Ensuring duty holders are appointed (PD, PC)
Ensuring roles and responsibilities are clear
Ensuring the people they appoint have the necessary skills knowledge and experience to manage health and safety
Ensuring all relevant information is prepared and provided to all duty holders
Notify HSC

Question 19

What are the principal contractor responsibilities under CDM

Answer 19

Planning managing monitoring coordinating the construction phase of the project

Ensuring anybody they appoint has the necessary skills knowledge and experience

Site inductions

Question 20

What is the purpose of the CDM Regulations

Answer 20

To improve H&S in the construction industry

Question 21

How do you distinguish between notifiable and non-notifiable Asbestos?

Answer 21

The employer has carried out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment - i.e R&D survey

Question 22

What are some of the typical H&S hazards on sites?

Answer 22

Working from height
Slips and trips
materials handling
Noise
Dust
Moving objects

Question 23

When does a PD need to be appointed

Answer 23

Where there is more than one contractor working on any type of project.

They should be appointed as early as possible in the design process.

Question 24

What makes a construction project notifiable?

Answer 24

Construction is scheduled to last longer than 30 working days, and will have more than 20 workers working at the same time.
or
If the construction work has more than 500 person days.

Question 25

Tell me about the Fire Safety Act 2021?

Answer 25

It was introduced to improve fire safety in multi-occupancy buildings.
It clarifies the responsibilities on the duty holder or Building owner.

Question 26

What information is included on an F10

Answer 26

Client’s name & Organisation
Address of the site
Description of project
Duration
Contractor information
PD information