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Health & Safety Level 1 Flashcards

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What is the HSE?

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The Health & Safety Executive is the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety & illness. It acts in the public interest to reduce work-related death & serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces.

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Define what service the HSE provides to improve safety.

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  • The HSE is there to protect people’s health & safety by ensuring risks in the changing workplace are properly controlled.
  • The HSE helps businesses adapt to changes in occupational healthy & safety law & practice
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What is a Construction Phase Healthy & Safety Plane (CPH&SP)?

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Developed during the construction phase by the contractor, the purpose is to demonstrate how the building will be built from a safety perspective.

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What is COSHH and what are it’s key principles?

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Control of Substances Hazard to Health requires employers to prevent or reduce workers’ exposure to substances including:

  • Chemicals
  • Fumes, gases, vapours & mists (paint, clue, welding, cleaning agents)
  • Dusts (asbestos, silica)
  • Biological agents & germs
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What is corporate manslaughter?

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An organisation is guilty of corporate manslaughter if the way in which its activities are managed or organised causes a persons death & if this amounts to a gross breach of a relevant duty of care owed by the organisation to the deceased.

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What is the Considerate Constructor’s Scheme?

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It’s a not-for-profit independent organisation founded in 1997 to improve the image of the industry. It encourages contractors & their supply chain to implement best practice.

  • Aims to promote construction
  • Aims to deliver the best practice in terms of site operations (cleanliness of site etc)
  • Delivering standards & benefitting the surrounding neighbourhood & community
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What are the 5 main assessment categories within the Consideration Constructors Scheme?

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There are 5 codes of considerate practice:

  1. Care about appearance
  2. Respect the community
  3. Protect the environment
  4. Care about safety
  5. Value their workforce
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What is the biggest cause of long-term health issues in the construction industry?

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Breathing in hazardous dusts & fumes

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Historically, which type of accident kills the most construction workers?

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Falls from height

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What is the minimum height of the main guard rail of scaffolding?

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950mm

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What does the beaufort scale measure?

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wind speed

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When are visitors or workers more likely to have an accident on a construction site?

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When they first visit / start on a new site

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What is a CSCS card?

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  • Construction skills certification scheme
  • Provides proof that individuals working on construction sites have the appropriate training & qualifications for the job they do
  • By ensuring the workforce are appropriately qualified, the card plays its part in improving standards & safety on UK construction sites
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What is a prohibition notice?

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Issued by the HSE, it is a warning to stop work immediately as there is an imminent threat of injury or death.

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What is an improvement notice?

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Issued by the HSE to help rectify health & safety failings. Gives the site a chance to correct what you’re doing wrong.

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What does RAMS stand for?

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Risk assessment and method statement

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What is a risk assessment?

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Identifying a hazard, measuring the risk & identifying the method of reducing the risk.

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What is a method statement?

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A statement / methodology which details the way work will be completed. The method statement should outline hazards involved & include a step-by-step guide on how to execute safely.

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What regulations are applicable to asebstos?

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Control of Asbestos Regulation 2012

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What are the 3 most common types of asbestos?

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Crocidolite

  • straight blue fibres
  • considered the most lethal form

Amosite

  • brown asbestos
  • second most common asbestos type, and the second deadliest

Chrysotile

  • known for long curly, fibres
  • most common type of asbestos used in industrial & commercial applications
  • usually white in colour
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What are the different types of asbestos surveys available?

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Asbestos Management Survey - to manage asbestos containing materials (ACMs) during the normal occupation & use of the premises

Refurbishment / Demolition Survey (R&D) - required where the premises, or part of it, needs upgrading, refurbishment or demolition

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Where is asbestos commonly found in buildings?

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  • cement gutters & downpipes
  • corrugated roofs
  • floor & ceiling tiles
  • insulated boards
  • lagging
  • textiles
  • soffits
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What is an asbestos management plan?

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A crucial document designed to register & detail how asbestos will be managed in a property & what activities will be engaged to ensure people remain safe

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What should an asbestos management plan include?

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  • the party responsible for managing asbestos
  • the asbestos register identifying type & location etc
  • plans for work on asbestos material
  • the schedule for monitoring the materials’ condition
  • telling people about your decisons
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How can asbestos be managed on site?

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Remove - eliminate the risk
Encapsulate - process of applying a protective layer onto the ACM which will contain asbestos fibres & protect from damage
Manage - set up an asbestos management plan

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What are the main health hazards when somebody is exposed to asbestos?

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Asbestosis - a chronic lung disease that can cause shortness of breath, coughing & permanent lung damage

Lung cancer

Mesothelioma - a cancer of the thin membranes that line the chest & abdomen

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When is an employer required to have a written H&S policy in the UK?

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When they employ more than 5 people

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What is the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974?

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  • Sets out general duties which employers have towards employees & members of the public, & employees have to themselves & each other
  • These duties are qualifies in the Act by the principles of ‘so far as reasonably practicable’
  • Main requirement on employers is to carry out a risk assessment. Employers with 5 or more employees need to record the significant findings of the risk assessment
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What is RIDDOR?

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  • Reporting of Incidents Diseases & Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
  • Puts duties on employers, the self-employed & people in control of work premises (AKA the responsible person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases & specified dangerous occurrences.
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What is the Lifting Operations Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1999?

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  • place duties on people & companies who own, operate & have control over lifting equipment
  • includes all businesses & organisations whose employees use lifting equipment
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What is the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005?

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These require employers to protect their employees from excessive levels of noise that could cause hearing damage.

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Does the RICS publish any information on how to excavate your role safely?

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Surveying Safely Guidance Note 2019

Sets out basic good practice principles for the management of H&S for RICS-regulated firms & RICS members.

Sets out principles for those engaged in the built environment as property professionals & includes H&S responsibilities

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What is the concept of a ‘safe person’, as outlined in RICS Surveying Safely?

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Each individual assumes individual behavioural responsibility for their own, their colleagues & others H&S whilst at work

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What are the key points of CDM Regulations 2015?

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  • to ensure clients, designers, contractors & others consider the H&S of those constructing, maintaining & demolishing the works
  • Places statutory duties on clients, principal designer, designers & contractors to plan, manage & co-ordinate H&S throughout projects
  • Improves safety on site through design, planning & management
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Who are the key duty holders under CDM 2015?

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  • Client
  • Principal Designer
  • Principal Contractor
  • Designers
  • Contractors
  • Workers
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What is an F10?

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  • Form which is sent to the HSE to notify them of a relevant construction project
  • it’s the clients responsibility to issue, however it’s often delegated to the principal designer or H&S advisor
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When is a project notifiable to the HSE under CDM Regulations?

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If the project is expected to:

  • lasts longer than 30 working days, or have more than 20 workers working at the same time at any point on the project or,
  • exceed 500 person days
38
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What is pre-construction information, under CDM?

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  • plays a vital role in the tender documentation, enables prospective contractors to be fully aware of the project’s H&S and welfare requirements
  • this will allow prospective contractors to have a level playing field as far as H&S is concerned on which to provide tender submissions
  • during development, the PCI can provide focus at which H&S considerations of the designers are brought together under the control of the principal designer
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What is included within the pre-construction (PCI) document?

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  • description of works
  • client considerations & management requirements
  • environmental restrictions & existing site risks
  • significant design & construction hazards
  • H&S file
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What is the H&S File, under CDM?

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  • prepared & issued promptly following completion of works
  • contains information needed during future construction works
  • The PD ensures the file is prepared, reviewed & amended as necessary & issued to the client
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What should the H&S File (under CDM) include?

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  • a brief description of the work carried out
  • any hazards associated with the materials
  • information regarding the removal or dismantling of installed plant & equipment
  • nature, location & markings of significant services
  • residual hazards & how they’ve been dealt with
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What is in surveying safely?

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RICS APC (34 decks)

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