Health & Safety Flashcards
What RICS Professional Standard covers Health & Safety?
RICS Professional Standard: Surveying Safely - Health & Safety Principals for Property Professionals 2018
What does the RICS Professional Standard: Surveying Safely - Health & Safety Principals for Property Professionals 2018 set out?
- Basic, good practice principals for the management of health and safety for RICS regulated firms and members
- Principals for those engaged in built environment and includes health and safety responsibilities
What is the structure of the RICS Professional Standard: Surveying Safely - Health & Safety Principals for Property Professionals 2018?
- Personal responsibilities for RICS 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 must RICS regulated firms ensure they provide?
(H&S)
- A safe working environment
- Safe work equipment
- Safe systems of work
- Competent staff
- Advice on health, well-being and mental health
- How to address fire safety
- An audit template to assist members
What does the Health & Safety Act 1974 cover?
- Duty to every employer to ensure, so far as reasonably partitionable
- Policed by HSE as a criminal offence with unlimited fines and / or imprisonment
- Must report injuries and dangerous occurrences- 1999 regulations
- Must undertake and regularly review risk assessments
- Hazard = anything that has potential to cause harm - wet floor
- Risk = the probability / likelihood that someone will be harmed
What does the PPE at Work Regulations 2022 cover?
- Employers duty to ensure provision of appropriate PPE for employees and contractors
- Includes cleaning, security and construction workers
What is an outline of a risk assessment?
- Identify the hazard present
- Identify the people at risk
- Evaluate the risk, considering the likelihood and severity of any accidents - existing precautions should be identified and evaluated
- Record findings on a suitable form
- Regularly review Risk Assessments
- Advise on all those affected of the outcome of the Risk Assessment and methods of work and precautions to minimise or eliminate risk
Risk Assessments
It is a legal requirement for organisations employing more than 5 staff to carry out documented health and safety risk assessments for all their significant hazards
What is a Method Statement?
- Details the way a work task or process is to be completed and prior approved
- Should outline any potential hazards and include a step-by-step guide on how to do the job safely
- Must also detail any control measures that have been put in place to ensure the safety of anyone who is affected by the task or process
Public Liability Insurance
A copy of the contractors all risks and public liability insurance is needed before work is commenced
What is required for businesses with more than 5 employees?
A written health and safety document
What must a written health and safety document contain?
(4)
- A policy setting out the organisations commitment to H&S
- Details of the organisations H&S structure, with roles and responsibilities for organising H&S
- A risk assessment setting the risks within the workplace and the preventative measures in place
- Details of planning, implementation of the H&S policy and control measures
What is the Health & Safety 6 Pack?
1993
These regulations clarify how employers must comply with their duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
1. Management of Health and Safety at Work
2. Display Screen Equipment
3. Manual Handling Operations
4. Personal Protective Equipment at Work
5. Provision and Use of Work Equipment
6. Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare
What does the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 2013 cover?
- Trigger date for reporting injuries is over 7 days incapacitation
- Must be reported to HSE within 15 days of the date of the accident
- All employers must keep records of all 3-day plus injuries
- Must be kept in accident book for minimum of 3 years after occupational accident or injury
What 5 steps does the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 mandate?
- Duty holder must assess whether asbestos is present and if so where and what condition it is in. If in doubt, materials must be presumed to contain asbestos
- Assess the risk and produce an asbestos management plan - is encapsulating / removal required?
- Produce an asbestos register
- Make the register available to all relevant parties who might disturb it
- Review the register regularly - HSE recommends every 6 months
What RICS Professional Standard covers asbestos?
RICS Professional Standard: Asbestos 2021
What penalties are available for breach of H&S obligations under the Health & Safety (Offences) Act 2008?
fines of up to £200k and up to 12 months imprisonment for many offences
More serious offences to be tried In higher court with no limit on fines
What is the aim of CDM 2015?
To improve the management and coordination of H&S at all stages of a construction project
CDM 2015
- Policed by HSE and is a criminal offence to breach
- Relates to the design and management of all commercial building projects including residential development and refurbishment and maintenance work for both notifiable and non-notifiable work
What are the key aspects of CDM 2015?
- Main duty holders = Client, Principal Designer and Principal Contractor
- CDM Coordinator is replaced by Principal Designer
- All projects with more than one contractor on site must have a Principal Designer and Principal Contractor and a H&S file
- Onus on the client and not the contractor to ensure CDM arrangements
- A Construction Phase Plan is required for all projects with safety considered at the design stage of a project by the PC
- There is a need for a risk assessment and a PD
- HSE to be notified in an F10 form if a project lasts longer than 30 construction days with 20 or more workers working simultaneously on site, more than 500 ‘person days’ of construction work or involves demolition
Who polices CDM and what are the penalties for non-compliance?
Policed by HSE who can prosecute and impose fines - up to £900k / 8 months imprisonment
What are the statutory obligations of a commercial property owner?
- Asbestos management
- Contamination
- Equality Act 2010 compliance
- EPCs
- Fire safety
- Building safety
- Health & Safety
- Legionnaires Disease
- Occupiers liability
- PAT testing (for portable equipment)
- Waste management
What is Legionella?
A water-borne bacteria that can cause Legionnaires Disease
What is Legionnaires Disease?
A lung infection from inhaling small droplets of water containing the bacteria, uncommon but can be very serious
