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Health & Safety Flashcards

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What is the HSE?

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  • The Health and Safety Executive
  • National independant watchdog for work safety, health and illness.
  • Acts in the public interest to reduce work related deaths and injuries by ensuring risks in the workplace are properly controlled
  • Helps businesses adapt to changes in law and practice
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What is a Construction Phase Health and Safety Plan?

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  • H&S managment document specific to the project
  • Includes project details, personnel, type of work and emergency arrangements
  • Identifies risks and control measures to reduce or eliminate
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What is the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS)?

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  • Non for profit organisation which encourages contractors and their supply chain to implement best practice in:
  • Respecting the commuinty
  • Caring for the Environment
  • Valuing the workforce
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Name some common health risks in constuction

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  • Working from height
  • Falls, slips and trips
  • Vibration
  • Respitory conditions
  • Manual handling
  • Asbestos
  • Electricity
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What are the implications of a member of public being injured by project work activites

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The HSE must be notifed if the person is taken directly from the scene to hospital to receive treatment
Site managment then need to investigate the cause of the accident and take stepos to prevent a reoccurance

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What is asbestos?

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  • Naturally occuring fibre with excellent strength and heat resistance properties
  • Banned in the UK since 1999 because of associated health risks
  • Control of Asbestos Regulations
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What types of asbestos survey’s are available?

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  • Managment survey; Managing risks associated with occupation
  • Demolition surevy; Required if any part of the building is being demolished or refurbished
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What are the types of asbestos?

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  • Crocidolie (straight blue fibre, most lethal)
  • Amosite (brown asbestos, 2nd most common)
  • Chrysotile (long curly fibres, most common, usually white)
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What does RAMS stand for

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  • Risk Assessment and Method Statement
  • Risk Assessment: Identification of a hazard, measuring the risk, outlining methods of elimination or reduction
  • Method Statement: Methodology on working practices, outlining hazards and step by step guides on executing safely
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What is Suveying Safely?

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  • RICS guidance document setting out good practice principles for managing H&S
  • Defines a safe person as behaving responsably for their own, collegaues and others health and saftey
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What are some Health and Safety regulations that are applicible to a contruction project?

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  • Health and Safety at Work Act
  • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
  • CDM Refulations
  • Control fo Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations
  • Working at Hieght Regulations
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What are the key principles of the Health and Safety at Work Act?

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  • General duties of the employer to employees and members of the public. Duties of emploees to each other
  • Requirement to complete risk assessments
  • Adequate training in reagard to H&S
  • Adequate welfare provisions
  • A safe working environment and management thereof
  • Provision for relvent information, instruction and supervision
  • ‘So as far as is reasonably practicable’
  • It is an enabling act, meaning other legislation can be made without the need for passing another act
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What is COSHH?

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  • Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
  • Limit and control substances
  • Provide details of emergency procedures
  • Includes items such as: Chemicals, Dust, Vapours, Germs
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What is RIDDOR?

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  • Reporting of Incidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurences Regulations
  • Duties to report serious accidents, illness or near misses such as:
  • Fatalities, specified injures, 7+ day injures, injury to the public, work-caused disieses, dangerous occurences, gas-related incidents
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What are the key principles of the CDM regulations?

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  • To ensure all stakeholders consider the H&S risks of those undertaking the works
  • Places statutory duties on clients, the principal designer and contractors
  • Improves safety through design, planning and management
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What is the role of the principal designer under the CDM reguations?

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  • Plan, manage, monitor and co-ordinate H&S in the pre-construciton pahse
  • Co-ordinate everyone involved in the pre-construction phase to help reduce or eliminate forseeable risks
  • Help and advise the client on collating pre-construction information
  • Liaise with the principal contractor to manage risks during the construction phase
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What is the role of the principal contractor under the CDM regulations?

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  • Plan, manage and monitor the construction phase
  • Identify and manage risks to site staff and the public, secure the site
  • Prepare a construction phase plan
  • Ensure the competence of all site staff, provide training where appropriate, conduct site inductions
  • Liaise with the principal designer to manage risks during the construction phase
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What is the F10 notification?

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  • A form sent to the HSE to notify them of a relevant project
  • Notifiable if project exceeds 30 days with more than 20 workers or lasts more than 500 worker days
  • Responsibility of the client to issue
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What is the Pre-Construction Information Pack (PCIP)?

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  • A document provided by the client regarding known project details distributed ot the principla designed and contractor
  • The principal contractor should use it to discharge their duties in the construction phase plan
  • Includes; Environmental restrictions, H&S file, access and agress, site restrictions, emergency evacuation proceedures, amy existing surveys
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What is the Health and Safety file?

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  • A specific requirement of the CDM regulations
  • Ensures all H&S matters are documented for future users of the site
  • All stakeholders are responsible for producing relevant infomration
  • Principal Designer is responsible to compiling the file
  • Issued to the client and end user upon completion
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What kind of information is included in the Health and Safety file?

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  • Description of the works carried out
  • Hazards associated with the materials used
  • Information regarding installed plant and Eqipment
  • Nature and location of significant services
  • Residual hazards and how they have been dealt with
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What is the Building Safety Act 2022?

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Introduces new duties for the management of fire and building safety in high-rise residential buildings.

Introduces the Building Safety Regulator as the building control authority for higher-risk buildings.

Sets requirements for a ‘golden thread’ of information to eb created, stored and maintained that informs and governs a buildings safety.

Applies to new or existing occupied buildings over 18 metres high or seven storeys or more, which contain at least two residential units, including care homes and hospitals.

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What is your role/responsibility as a QS under the CDM regulations?

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As a QS , I’m considered a designer under the CDM regulations and should comply with the regulations insofar as they relate to my appointment.

Liaise with the Professional Team and
advise the Client of its obligations under the
CDM Regulations.

Communicate, cooperate and coordinate with all other designers and contractors.

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How are the CDM regulations structured?

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Into 5 parts:
- Definitions and application
- Client duties
- H&S duties and roles of other dutyholders
- General requirements
- Transitional arrangements and revocations

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