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Inspection and Health and Safety Flashcards

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What RICS Documentation is relevant in regards to health and safety ?

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RICS Professional Surveying Safely 2nd edition effective Feb 2019

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Outline what RICS Professional Surveying Safely 2nd edition effective Feb 2019 discusses ?

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  • Basic and good practice principals for management of health and safety
  • Principles for those engaged in built environment as property professionals and includes health and safety.
  • Assessing Hazards and Risks.
  • Occupational health and safety.
  • Fire safety.
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What is the ‘safe person concept’?

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Assumes individual responsibility for their own and colleagues safety

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What is occupational health

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Mental Health

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What relevant health and safety acts are there

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Health and Safety at work act 1974
PPE at work regulations

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What does the Health and Safety at work act

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Duty to every employer to ensure, so far as reasonably practicalbe ,the health safety and welfare at work for all employees

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Who policies the Health and Safety at work act and is it a criminal offense

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Health and safety Executive its a criminal offence with fines and improsenmnet

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What is Harm and Risk

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Harm - Hazard at present
Risk - Probability of harm being caused.

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When Loan working what must I do

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  • Inform colleagues
  • Take fully charged phone
  • Plan journey
  • Static risk assessment
  • Dynamic Risk assessment
  • Sign in and out of building
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What does the PPE at work regulations say ?

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Employers duty to ensure provision of appropriate PPE for employees and contractors

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Outline a risk assessment

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  1. Identify Hazard present
  2. Identify ppl at risk
  3. Evaluate risk, considering the likelihood and severity of any accidents . Existing precautions.
  4. Record Findings on suitable form
  5. Review risk assessment regularly
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What is a method statetment

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Details how a work task or process is to be completed

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When must a company have a written health and safety document

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More than 5 employees

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What must a health and safety document include

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Organisation comittment to h&s
Details of organisations h&s structure
A risk assessment

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What does RIDDOR stand for

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Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation

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What does RIDDOR require

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It’s a law that requires employers to report certain incidents, accidents, and ill-health to the Health and Safety Executive

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Example of injuries to report to health and safety executive

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xamples of reportable incidents include:
Non-fatal injuries to workers
Non-fatal injuries to non-workers
Work-related fatalities
Dangerous occurrences

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Why is it important to report incidents

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Reporting these incidents helps regulators and businesses prevent accidents, and allows enforcing authorities to learn about what happened and why

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How long do i have to report to health ad safety executive

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7 days incapitation
15 days from point of incident

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What does the fire safety act say

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Applies to resi buildings he Act specifies that the scope of the Fire Safety Order applies to the structure, external walls (including cladding, balconies, and windows), and individual flat entrance doors of multi-occupied residential buildings.

Building Owner/Manager Responsibilities: Building owners and managers (Responsible Persons) are required to assess and mitigate fire risks associated with these parts of the building, ensuring that fire safety is prioritized in external walls and flat entrance doors.

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what does the building safety act 2022 say

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The Building Safety Act 2022 is a comprehensive reform in the UK aimed at improving building safety, especially in response to the Grenfell Tower fire. Here are the key provisions:

New Building Safety Regulator: The Act establishes a Building Safety Regulator (BSR) within the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to oversee and enforce safety standards for high-rise and high-risk buildings.
The “Golden Thread”: Mandates a “golden thread” of information, meaning accurate and up-to-date digital records about a building’s design, construction, and maintenance must be kept to ensure safety decisions are based on reliable information.esidents’ Rights and Responsibilities: Gives residents more access to safety information about their buildings and establishes formal channels for reporting safety concerns to building management and the regulator.

Remediation and Cost Protection: Introduces protections for leaseholders against certain remediation costs associated with historic safety defects, like unsafe cladding, with the aim of holding developers and owners accountable for safety issues.

Accountable Person: For high-risk buildings, there must be an accountable person or building safety manager responsible for ongoing safety management and compliance with fire and structural safety standards.

The Building Safety Act 2022 aims to create a stronger regulatory framework and more accountability to prevent future building safety crises.

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occupiers liability act in a few words

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Protects lawful visitors; occupiers must ensure their safety within reason.

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What is asbestos

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  • Insulating material which can cause health problems and fatal diseases.
  • Left damaged and undisturbed it poses no risk. If its been disturbed it can release very small toxic fibres which can lodge in lungs and cause illness
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3 types

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  • Brown – banned 1985
  • Blue – banned 1985
  • White – banned 1999
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The two main types of asbestos surveys are:

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Management Survey: A standard survey to locate any asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) that may be present in a building and assess their condition. Its purpose is to manage asbestos safely during normal occupation and maintenance, without disturbing it.

Refurbishment/Demolition Survey: A more intrusive survey required when a building (or part of it) will undergo refurbishment or demolition. It aims to identify all ACMs that could be disturbed during the work to ensure safe removal or containment.

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What is CDM Designer and relevant laws

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person in charge of h&s CDM regulations 2015

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Four Step Process for inspection

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  • Consider personal safety.
  • Inspection of the local area
  • External Inspection
  • Internal Inspection
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What to take on inspection

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  • Phone
  • Camera
  • Tape measure / Laser ( calibrate regularly by checking accuracy with tape measure)
  • File, plans
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External Inspection

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  • Method of construction
  • Repair and condition, describe roof downwards.
  • Car parking/access
  • Defects/Structural movement
  • Check site boundaries with OS map/ Title plan
  • Can date building by asking client, research planning consent date, land reg, architectural style.
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Internal Inspection

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  • Layout/spec
  • Repair & maintenance
  • Defects
  • Stat Compliance eg: asbestos, health and safety, equality act, fire safety and planning.
  • Fixtures and fittings
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Four common Foundations

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  1. Trench or Strip Footings – Generally used for resi dwellings, for walls and closely spaced columns.
  2. Raft – Slab foundation over whole site to spread load for lightweight structures (usually for remediated land and sandy soil conditions).
  3. Piled – Long & slender reinforced concrete cylinders in the ground to deeper strata.
  4. Pad – Slab Foundation system under indv/groups of columns so column load is spread evenly.
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Different Brickwork

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Cavity Wall
Solid Wall

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difference between latent and inherent defect

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latent defects are hidden flaws that appear over time, while inherent defects stem from original design

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Example of latent and inherent defect

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Latent - Leaks in plumbing concealed within walls that become noticeable over time.
Inherent - Poorly designed roofing that doesn’t allow proper drainage, leading to leaks.

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Different types of movement ?

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Subsidence - Vertical downward movement of a building foundation caused by loss of site beneath foundation, may be due to ground condition.
Heave – Expansion of ground beneath part or all of building (might be due to tree removal- moisture build up in soil).
Horizontal cracking - In Brickwood may indicate cavity wall tie failure in brick wall.
Shrinking Cracking- Occurs in new plasterwork during drying out process.

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Different types of Damp

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Wet Rot
Dry Rot
Rising damp
Condensation

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What does Wet Rot look like

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Wet Rot- Caused by damp and timber decay. Signs include wet and soft timber, a high damp meter reading, visible fungal growth and musty smell.

38
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What does Dry Rot look like

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Caused inside by fungal attack. Signs include fungus known as mycelium,which spreads across wood in fine and fluffy white starndsa and orange mushroom fruity bodies. Cracking paintwork.

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When instruction to value a site with contamination consider

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  • X provide advice unit specialist report is provided
  • Caveat advice provided with appropriate disclaimer highlighting issue/use of SA
  • Deduct Remediation costs from Gross site Value.
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What is a deleterious material and give example

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Deleterious materials can degrade with age causing structural problems.
- High Alumina Cement
- Woodwool Shuttering
- Calcium Chloride

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What is a Hazardous Materials

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  • Asbestos
  • Lead pipping/paint
  • Radon Gas
  • Recommended specialist reports and make appropriate assumptions in advice.
  • Check asbestos report.
    Disposal of Water – Surface water runs off into water course eg:soak away or storm drain
    Foul Water drains- soil pipes into sewage system
42
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what Japanese knotweed looks like

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Japanese knotweed is a highly invasive, perennial plant that typically grows in dense clumps and can reach up to 2–3 meters in height.

The stems are hollow, bamboo-like, and can reach up to 2–3 cm in diameter. They are usually green with a characteristic purple speckling, particularly in younger plants.

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