Health & Safety Flashcards
What is the purpose of Health and Safety
To minimise the risk of harm
What health and safety legislation are you aware of?
Health & Safety at Work 1974
Policed by HSE (H&S Executive)
Criminal offence - fines and/or imprisonment
Employers have a duty of care, legal requirement
Employer must ensure:
Health and Safety policy
Managing risks and risk assessment
Must undertake, record and regularly review a risk assessment
Provide a safe place of work
Safe equipment
Ensure staff are competent and trained
Report any injuries and dangerous occurrences (RIDDOR)
PPE at Work Regulations 2022
For example, A risk is the probability/likelihood someone will fall over the wet floor
How do you ensure that you comply with H&S legislation?
Individuals have a direct responsibility to ensure that the corporate health and safety policies and procedures are practised effectively and competently.
Individual responsibilities are:
Performance - being competent (skills knowledge and experience)
Control - being prepared to work within accepted and designated systems of work
Adaptability
Vigilance - being aware of mine and others safety
Awareness - being able to recognise my limitations and others
Teamwork - being an effective member of a team
TC CAVA
Team work
Competence
Control
Awareness
Vigilance
Adaptability
What are the penalties under the current Health & Safety legislation?
HSE police - fine and/or imprisonment
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
Breaches of a duty of care leading to a persons death
Range from unlimited fines/imprisonment/disqualification as a company director by a ‘senior management team’.
Tell me about if a injury occurs or a dangerous occurrence
Follow the legislation in: Reporting Injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations 2013 (RIDDOR)
Report to HSE If the person is incapacitated for over 7 days
Must be reported within 15 days
Employers must keep a record for injuries lasting more than 3 days
What is the relevant RICS Standard in H&S
RICS Professional Standard: Surveying Safely 2018
Key areas of advice include:
1. A safe working environment
2. Safe work equipment
3. Safe Systems of work
4. Competent Staff
5. Safe person concept - responsibility for their own, colleagues and others
Tell me about Frederick & Holt’s employer’s H&S policy
Mandatory for more than 5 employees
H&S policy document would need to include: (C Sir)
- Policy setting out company’s commitment to H&S
- H&S Structure with roles and responsibilities
- Risk assessments
4.Implementation of the policy and control measures
How would you undertake a risk assessment before attending site?
Legal requirement for organisations employing more than 5 staff:
- Identifying the current hazards
- Identifying the people at risk
- Evaluate the risk (how likely)
- Record
- Review
- Advise those affected of the risk assessment and the precautions
Pall Mall -
Hazard - Building site, falling objects, structual instablilty
Risks - Debris falling, falling from heights
Control measures
PPE, Site maneger accompany
What are your health & safety duties as an individual surveyor?
Safe person concept - I have a duty not just to myself but to colleagues and others.
I carry out my own risk assessment prior to any inspection
If I have to lone work there are procedures in my place - such as check in calls, calendar times, always ensure that everyone knows where I am
Tell me something you understand from reading Surveying Safely.
Assessing Hazards and Risks (and to include in Risk assessments)
Also:
Safe person concept - The responsibility is not just for the employer but I have responsibility for my colleagues and others
When was Surveying Safely last updated?
2024 to make professional standard. It is effective from February 2019
What must Regulated Firms provide?
In line with RICS Guidance Note - Surveying Safely 2018
1. A safe working environment
2. Safe work equipment
3. Safe Systems of work
4. Competent Staff
5. Safe person concept - responsibility for their own, colleagues and others
What happened in the case of Suzy Lamplugh?
25 year old estate agent who went missing and assumed murdered
Lone working
Impact of the case:
1. Buddy systems if lone working
What is the difference between a Hazard and a Risk
Hazard - anything that has the potential to cause harm (water on the floor)
Risk - the likelihood that a hazard will cause harm and the severity (may cause someone to slip)
What legislation do you follow regarding fire at Palladium House
Fire Risk Management Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
To ensure a minimum standard of fire safety within a non domestic premises.
Responsible person is in charge of maintaining this
What were the action points at Palladium House?
There was a door which wasn’t fire resisting - therefore replaced
Palladium House - How did you ensure they were all actioned?
Inspected the property and ensured all the works were completed and completed the Fire Risk Assessment report.
Tell me about your understanding of fire safety?
There is a Responsible Person - which is Hugh
We undertake an annual review - and implement the action points
Record keeping
Training
Reasonable fire precautions
What is the six pack
Introduced in 1993
These 6 regulations are linked with the H&S At Work Act 1974
1.Management of H&S At Work Act 1974
2. Display screen equipment (given opportunity to take breaks for eyes)
3. Manual Handling Operations (avoiding manual lifting, lifting aids)
4. PPE at Work
5. Provision and Use of Work Equipment (maintained and in good use)
6. Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare (lighting ventilation, drinking water etc)
What is the legislation for Asbestos called and the key principles?
Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
Key UK Legislation:
1. Duty holder to assess whether the premises contain asbestos
2. Risk Assessment and produce a Management Plan
3. Produce an asbestos register
4. Make the register available to all parties
5. Review regularly (6 months HSE recommendation)
Criminal offence - £20,000 and possibility of 12 months imprisonment
Who is the duty holder?
Is the person who must protect the people from the risks of exposure to asbestos.
The duty holder is the owner if the building is vacant and the tenant if holding a repairing lease.
What are the two types of asbestos survey?
- management survey
Plan is created to outline how to manage it (potentially encapsulating) - Refurbishment / demolition Survey
Before any refurbishment or demolition
Samples taken
Advise on management
How does asbestos cause lung damage?
When unsettles the micro fibres lodge in the lungs
What is an asbestos survey/management plan?
An investigation to identify any ACMs (asbestos containing materials) present
Either a Management survey or refurbishment survey
Explain the key principles of the new RICS guidance relating to asbestos.
RICS Professional Standard, Asbestos 2021
Comprehensive overview of the law and industry guidance
Details of common asbestos containing materials, how to commission an asbestos survey and suggested contents of a management plan
What is occupational health and why is it important?
physical, mental, and social well-being of workers in all occupations
Legal compliance with H&S at Work Act 1974
Productivity
Employee retention
Fire Safety Act 2021
Following the Hackitt Review - replaced the Fire Safety Order 2005
Applied to residential property
Requires a responsible person to assess, manage and reduce the fire risks opposed
Explain how you ensure your personal safety on site?
Specific Risk Assessments
PPE
Site inductions
Look at Asbestos register
Avoid lone working
Explain how you ensure the security of your personal possessions on site?
I limit the amount of personal items
Only what is required
What would you do if you suspected asbestos existed on a site inspection? (office building example)
Speak to the Duty Holder
Advise on a asbestos survey which must be undertaken by a specialist.
And the employer must hold a license when carrying out any licensed work(Regulation 8 of Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012)
In accordance with RICS Professional Standard: Asbestos they advise the client to always make sure the work is licensed and not unlicensed.
Tell me about any specific precautions you would take when inspecting a dilapidated property.
Would be very careful
Risk assessment
Dynamic risk assessment
Risk control - eliminate, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, PPE
Appropriate PPE
Not to lone work
What hazardous materials have you come across in your work?
Terrace at Castle House was damaged with moss growing on in.
Risk of slipping
Locked the door for all tenants
Pall Mall - What PPE did you take with you?
Spoke with site manager beforehand and confirmed they will provide all PPE
How did you determine the property was safe to inspect at Pall Mall?
The site manager was always with us.
Gave us a detailed review on the dangers
Why was it important to avoid lone working at Pall Mall?
Dangerous environment, more dangerous than usual as the building site being demolited
What was included in the site induction at Pall Mall?
H&S Procedures
Site hazards
Site access and restrictions
PPE
What are the three types of asbestos and when was it an illegal material?
White (1999)
Brown (1985)
Blue (1985)
What is a method statement
A document that outlines how to safely carry out a task. Used for high risk tasks
How do you go about risk prior to an inspection
Hierarchy of Risk Control
1. Elimination (drone on roof)
2. Substitution (using mobile scaffolding instead of step ladders)
3. Engineering controls (dust extractors)
4. Administrative controls (Safety signs, reducing the need for lone working)
5. PPE (only after all other measures have been tried and found effective)
What do you carry on doing whilst on inspection
I undertake a dynamic risk assessment to continually re evaluate the activity
Is it still safe to continue?
Everyone within their competence?
Can everyone get to safety in emergency?
At Boom Battle Bar what risk assessments did you undertake
- Risk assessment
Identifying the risks
Who might be harmed?
Evaluating the risks
Record the findings and implement them
Review
Advise those affected - Hierarchy of risk control
Elimination - going when no one is throwing axes or cooking
Substitution
Engineering controls
Administrative controls
PPE - Dynamic risk assessment
Continually evaluating the environment as it changes
Is it still safe?
Is everyone competent?
Is there a safe place to exit in an emergency?
