Health & Safety Flashcards
What is a RICS ‘safe person’?
Each individual assumes individual behavioural responsibility for their own, colleagues and others health and safety at work.
What are the personal Health and Safety responsibilities for RICS regulated firms?
- Individuals must ensures corporate H&S procedures are implemented
- Individuals must know and understand the H&S risks for their tasks
What are the key steps to a Risk Assessment?
- Identify the hazards present
- Identify the people at risk from the hazards
- Evaluate the risk, considering the likelihood and severity of any accidents
- Record the findings in a suitable form
- Review the risk assessment regularly
- Advise all those affected of the outcome of the risk assessment and methods to minimise or eliminate risk
What is the hierarchy of risk control?
- Elimination
- Substitution
- Engineering Contorls
- Administration Controls
- Personal Protective Equipment
What Health and Safety obligations must a RICS regulated firm provide?
- A safe working environment
- Safe work equipment
- Safe systems of work
- Competent stafff
What duty of Care do employees have under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974?
- Duty to every employer to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all employees
- Report injuries and dangerous occurrences (1995 regulations)
- Must undertake, record and regularly review a risk assessment (1999 regulations)
- Detailed H&S information to be held in the Operations and Maintainence Manual
What are the key provisions under the Building Safety Act 2022?
- Building Safety Regulator (BSR) will oversee the safety and standards of all buildings
- Building Safety Regulator is the Building Control Body
- Health Service Executive (HSE) is responsible for verifying building works to ensure they meet the standards set out in the building regulations
- Golden Thread of Information: Maintain a live, electronic record of information about the design and construction of High Risk Buildings
- Mandatory Occurrence Report: is required for each high risk building
- High Rise Buildings must be registered before occupation
What is a High Risk Building under the Building Safety Act 2022?
Section 65 of the BSA 2022
- A building that is at least 18 meters in height (7 storeys)
- Contains at least 2 residential buildings
What is a Mandatory Occurrence Report?
Duty holders (Freeholder/leaseholder) must report incidents that may have a potential impact on the Fire & Structural safety of occupants to the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
What is asbestos?
Asbestos is the general term used for a group of fibrous silicate materials.
Once disturbed it can release toxic fibres which can lodge in the lungs and cause illness
Summarise the Fire Safety Act 2021:
- Applies to all residential premises (common parts of flats and HMO).
- Requires a responsible person to assess, manage and reduce the fire risks posed by the structure, external walls and common parts.
- Fire Risk Appraisals of External Walls (FRAEW) where appropriate to understand one’s obligations
- Regular lift inspections are reported to the Fire Services
- Ensuring evacuation plans are regularly updated and that personal evacuation plans are in place for vulnerable tenants
- Ensuring flat entrance doors comply with current standards where unsafe cladding is present.
What is a Fire Risk Appraisal of External Walls (FRAEW)?
A comprehensive assessment of the fire safety of a building’s external walls, focusing on the potential for fire spread and the risk of life.
It identifies potential fire hazards, recommends appropriate mitigation such as improving insulation, modifying cladding, enhancing fire-resistant barriers.
What is an EWS1 Form?
- A certificate to provide lenders with information about the fire safety of a building’s external walls system and combustible cladding.
- Typically required for buildings over 18m (7 storeys) in height.
What are the steps to safely manage asbestos?
- Asbestos Survey: A survey to identify asbestos containing materials (ACM) by a trained specialist. The survey should identify the types of ACM’s present, where they are and their condition.
- Asbestos Register: Prepare and maintain a record of the location and condition of the ACM’s and any presumed ACM. Can be annotated to a floor plan.
- Asbestos Management Plan (AMP): Assesses the risk of the ACM’s from the asbestos register and survey. An action plan is then put in place. High priority is then given to damaged materials or ACM’s that are likely to be disturbed.
- Provide the asbestos information to does who need it.
