Health & Safety Flashcards
What is the difference between a fall arrest system and a fall restrain system?
Are you qualified and covered to us a fall restraint system?
What is the Health & safety Act 1974?
It sets out the Duty of employer to ensure health, safety and welfare of all employees
Non-compliance is a criminal offence punishable by fines / imprisonment
o Policed by HSE
o Duty of employer to ensure health, safety and welfare of all employees
o Must report injuries
o Must undertake regular risk assessment
What is Savills H&S policy?
What is the RICS guidance is there in regard to H&S?
What are the sections within Surveying Safety 2nd edition 2019?
- Personal responsibilities for members and firms
- Assessing hazards and risks
- Workplace health and safety
- Occupational hygiene and health
- Visiting premises and sites
- Fire safety
- Residential property surveying
- Procurement and management of contractors
What types of risk might you be presented with on-site?
- Wet floors
- Working at height
- Slips & trips
- Asbestos
- Moving objects and machinery
- Fork lifts
What is a risk & what is a risk assessment?
The probability / likelihood that someone could be harmed/damage. A risk assessment documents specific risks involved within a certain task and scores the severity of the risk versus the likelihood.
What is a safe person?
Each individual assumes individual behavioural responsibility for the own, their colleagues and others health and safety whilst at work
what do you do prior to inspecting?
- Review divisional risk assessment and understand potential risks
- Request necessary information regarding known risks on site including the asbestos register
- Check whether any PPE is required with building manager / anything should be aware of
- Inform my buddy that I am going on inspection – timings and location, also let them know when leaving
- Ensure mobile is fully charged
Arrange access
Organise correct PPE.
What are your company’s lone working procedures?
We have key proecedures that we have to follow:
o So: ensure team is aware of arrangements
(which we share our work diaries and use a buddy system)
o Fully charged mobile
o Know company’s safe word and that team know what to do in the event it is needed
- Ensure have a full understanding of the identity of the person and take precautions to check they are genuine and who they say they are
Different between a risk and a hazard?
- Hazard – anything that can cause harm
- Risk – The chance that the hazard will cause harm and how serious that could be
What PPE might you have to use?
- Hard hats – must be replaced according to manufacture instructions. Often this is 3 yearly.
- Gloves
- Non slip shoes / steel toed boots. Steel boots also require reinforced soles and ankle support.
- Hi vis
- Goggles
- Dangers of forklifts – sight lines are limited. Where high vis and stay out of the way.
What does Surveying Safely say in relation to lone working?
Provides checklist of matters for RICS Firms to consider
o Are specific requirements / procedures in place? Regular check in calls?
o Provisions for emergencies?
What happens if there is an injury of an employee at work?
- Under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR), injuries must be reported when causing incapacitation greater than 7 days
- Injury must be reported to the HSE within 15 days of the accident
- Keep information in accident book for min 3 years after the date of the accident
