Health & Safety Flashcards
What are the Construction Design Management 2015 regulations?
Managed by the HSE, the CDM regs cover H&S in the design and management of construction in both residential and commercial projections. Aims to improve the management and coordination of H&S at all stages of construction.
What is the client duties under the CDM regs?
- The client
- Principal designer
- Principal contractor
All projects with more than one contractor must have a principal contractors.
What is the main contractor duties?
The principal contractor must issue the pre construction H&S plan and input into the H&S file on site.
What is the principle designer role?
Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the pre-construction phase of a project. This includes:
- identifying, eliminating or controlling foreseeable risks
- ensuring designers carry out their duties
- Prepare and provide relevant information to other dutyholders.
- Liaise with the principal contractor to help in the planning, management, monitoring and coordination of the construction phase.
What is an F10 and when is it required?
HSE must be notifed is a project is:
- Longer than 30 days in construction with more than 20 workers on site.
- More than 500 person days
Do all works full under the CDM regulations?
Yes
What is included in a construction phase h&S plan?
- Risk assessments
- Safe working practices to be followed
- PPE requirements
- Key H&S information such as contracts and routes to the nearest hospital.
Who policies the CDM regs?
HSE - The Health & Safety Executive.
What is included in an H&S file?
A Health and Safety File is a repository of health and safety information that serves as a legal record, benefiting both clients and end users – from initial construction through use, cleaning, maintenance, alterations and refurbishment, and demolition.
CDM Regulation 12 (5) states that the file should be ‘appropriate to the characteristics of the project’.
- Information on the work being carried out.
- Hazards that have not been eliminated through the design and construction phases and how they have been addressed.
- Background information on the asset’s structure and form and any limitations – e.g., safe working loads for floors and roofs, the location of utility services, etc.
- Any hazardous materials used (e.g., paints, special coatings, etc.) that will prove useful when maintaining or removing these substances or working in affected areas.
- Information, including as-built drawings, including safe means of access to service areas.
Who are the HSE?
The Health & Safety Executive
What are the hierarchy of controls when using PPE?
PPE should be the last resort to protect against risks. Consider controls in the following order, with elimination being the most effective and PPE being the least effective:
- Elimination – physically remove the hazard
- Substitution – replace the hazard
- Engineering controls – isolate people from the hazard
- Administrative controls – change the way people work
- PPE – protect the worker with equipment
What is noted within Surveying Safely?
- Defines a safe person
- Advises on PPE
- Guidance on risk assessment
- Lone working procedures
- fire safety
- date tag on scaffolding
How do you test if PPE is not damaged?
You should undertake a visual inspection, ensure the equipment has not been in a previous accident and check for a CE mark to should the product conformity. PPE should also have a Declaration of Conformity and instructions on how to use the item. Suppliers can advise you.
What is a risk assessment?
Risk assessment should focus on the identification, elimination and management of risks:
- Identify the hazards.
- Decide who might be harmed and how.
- Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions.
- Record significant findings.
- Review the assessment and update if necessary.
What is a method statement?
Method statements are widely used in construction as a means of controlling specific health and safety risks that have been identified (perhaps following the preparation of a risk assessment) such as; lifting operations, demolition or dismantling, working at height (such as work on roofs), installing equipment, and the use of plant. A method statement helps manage the work and ensures that the necessary precautions have been communicated to those involved.
How does the Building Safety Act 2022 impact your role as PM?
Explain the process of undertaking an inspection alone?
- Undertake a desktop assessment
- Undertake a risk assessment looking at the site on google street view
- Notify my team of the address and time of the inspection
- Let them know when I arrive on site and ensure phone signal
- Let them know when I safely leave and ensure a code word is agreed in advance prior to the inspection.
What was included in the site induction?
Site rules should cover (but not be limited to) topics such as:
- Personal protective equipment;
2.Restricted areas; - Hot works;
- Traffic management systems;
- Pedestrian routes;
- Site tidiness;
- Fire prevention;
- Permit-to-work systems; 9. Emergency arrangements.
Every site worker must be given a suitable site induction. The induction should be site specific and highlight any particular risks (including those listed in Schedule 3 of the CDM 2015 Regulations) and control measures that those working on the project need to know about. The following issues should be considered:
- Senior management commitment to health and safety;
- Outline of the project;
Management of the project; - First-aid arrangements;
- Accident and incident reporting arrangements;
- Arrangements for briefing workers on an ongoing basis, e.g. toolbox talks;
- Arrangements for consulting the workforce on health and safety matters;
- Individual worker’s responsibility for health and safety.
What is 5 point PPE?
- helmet
- Glasses
- High vis
- Gloves
- Steel toe capped boots
What is pre construction information?
The 2015 Construction (Design and Management) Regulations require that construction clients provide pre-construction information as soon as is practicable to every designer and contractor appointed. Issued to contractors as part of the tender process
The regulations define pre-construction information as ‘information in the client’s possession or which is reasonably obtainable by or on behalf of the client, which is relevant to the construction work and is of an appropriate level of detail and proportionate to the risks involved, including information about:
The project.
Planning and management of the project.
Health and safety hazards, including design and construction hazards and how they will be addressed.
Information in any existing health and safety file’.
What are the latest working at height regulations?
Working at height regulations 2005.
- Risk assessments
- fragile surfaces
- Competence
- Inspection of work equipment
When is a principle designer required?
When there is more than one contractor on a project
PPE at work act 2022
The employer must provide adequate PPE to all employees for the role required.
When is a risk assessment required?
When a company has more than 5 employees
