Inspection Flashcards
If you arrive for an inspection & circumstances have changed or appear unsafe, what do you do?
Dynamic Risk Assessment -
Continually re-evaluate to determine competence and safety
Unsafe conditions -
- Immediately stop
- Seek assistance
- Rearrange
What due diligence should you undertake prior to an inspection?
- Desktop Review
- Study Lease
- Arrange access
- Risk assessment
- Print out plans
- PPE
What measures do you put in place to ensure safety on inspection?
- Desktop Due Diligence & Risk Assessment
- Plan travel routes
- Check weather forecast
- Charge mobile phone
- Keep colleagues informed
- Ask the client or tenant about hazards, livestock, etc …
Tell me about the surveying safely guidance note
- Came into effect in 2019
- Sets out best practise for H&S at work for management & surveyors
- Safe Person Concept:
Everyone has a responsibility for their own, their colleagues, and others safety at work
Hierarchy of Risk Control:
- Elimination
- Substitution
- Engineering controls
- Admin controls
- PPE
What laws govern Occupiers Liability?
Occupiers Liability Act 1957 -
Occupiers must keep visitors safe for the purposes of their visit
Occupiers Liability Act 1984 -
Occupiers owe people other than visitors a duty of care on their premises
What governs valuation inspection standards?
RICS Global Standards (2022) - Valuation:
VPS2 - inspection, investigations & records:
1) Inspection & investigation to verify information
2) Re-valuations must be inspected again (unless no material change is confirmed)
3) Accurate records must be kept on file
What would you include in a risk assessment?
- Identify hazards and risks
- Who may be harmed & How
- Mitigation strategy
- Who is responsible
- Actions required
- Dates, locations, & contact details
What would you do to prepare for an inspection?
- confirm scope
- request information
- review any leases
- contact occupier & organise access
- Desk-top Due Diligence
- Risk Assessment
- Let colleagues know where I am & when
