Health & Safety Flashcards
What are some of your firms corporate health and safety policies
To provide adequate and appropriate training
Ensure responsibilities are discharged in a safe manner
What is the health and safety at work act 1974 about?
Are you aware of any other legislation associated with this
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
What are your employer’s responsibilities under the health and safety at work act
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
What are your individual responsibilities under the health and safety at work act
- 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
What regulation is to do with the health and safety on a construction project
CDM 2015 Regulations
Construction, Design and management
Control asbestos regulations 2012 - what are the 3 main types of asbestos
Chrysotile (white) - curly fibres
Amosite (brown)
Crocidolite (Blue)
Name some types of asbestos survey
Asbestos management survey
Refurbishment / Demolition survey
What is regulation 4 of the control of asbestos regulation 2012
‘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.
Who is the main duty holder for the control of asbestos regulation
Any person or organisation that has clear responsibility for the maintenance or repair of non domestic premises
Tell me about the building safety act
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.
What are the gateways of the building safety act
Gateway 1 - planning
Gateway 2 before building work starts
Gateway 3 when building work is completed
What is the golden thread of information
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
You mention that there maybe further changes likely to come into force following the building safety act, what are they likely to be
The height of higher risk buildings are to be reduced to 4 stories and above
What is RICS surveying safety
It is a guidance note which provides best practice guidance for the management of health and safety for RICS regulated firms and members
What is the current edition of RICS surveying safety
Second edition November 2018
What is the safe person concept
Each individual assumes individual behavioral responsibilities fortheir own, their colleagues and others’ health and safety while at work
Who are the duty holders under CDM 2015
Client principal designer
Principal contractor
Designers
Contractors
What are clients duties under CDM 2015
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
What are the principal contractor responsibilities under CDM
Planning managing monitoring coordinating the construction phase of the project
Ensuring anybody they appoint has the necessary skills knowledge and experience
Site inductions
What is the purpose of the CDM Regulations
To improve H&S in the construction industry
How do you distinguish between notifiable and non-notifiable Asbestos?
The employer has carried out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment - i.e R&D survey
What are some of the typical H&S hazards on sites?
Working from height
Slips and trips
materials handling
Noise
Dust
Moving objects
When does a PD need to be appointed
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.
What makes a construction project notifiable?
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.
Tell me about the Fire Safety Act 2021?
It was introduced to improve fire safety in multi-occupancy buildings.
It clarifies the responsibilities on the duty holder or Building owner.
What information is included on an F10
Client’s name & Organisation
Address of the site
Description of project
Duration
Contractor information
PD information
