L1 - Health & Safety - Regulations Flashcards
What is Surveying Safely 2nd edition, 2018 (effective 2019)?
Provides guidance for good practice principles for managing H&S in a work environment in construction
What is the front cover of Surveying Safely?
Guy with hi vis, hard hat, clipboard and walking
What is included in Surveying Safely
Personal responsibilities for RICS members
Accessing hazards and risks
RICS member’s places of work
Occupational hygiene and health
Visiting premises / sites
Fire safety
General procurement / management of contractors
What health and safety regulations are applicable to a construction project?
- Health and safety at work act 1974
- Management of H&S at Work regulations 1999
- CDM Regulations 2015
- COSHH 2002
- Working at height regulations 2005
What is the general duty on employers under H&S at Work Act 1974?
Ensure health, safety and wellbeing of employees and other affected persons is not at risk, so far as is reasonably practicable.
What are the key principles of the H&S at Work Act 1974?
Employers are required to carry out risk assessments
Adequate training of staff to ensure H&S.
Adequate welfare provisions for staff at work
A safe working environment that is properly maintained and where operations within it are conducted safely
Suitable provision of relevant information, instruction and supervision
What are the penalties under the H&S Act 1974?
Unlimited fine
Up to 2 years imprisonment
Directors disqualified for up to 15 years
What are your individual responsibilities under the H&S at Work Act 1974?
Take responsibility for own H&S and anyone under your supervision
Co-operate with employer to minimise risk to self, colleagues or others
Report actual / perceived breaches
Carry out risk assessments
Wear PPE
Undertake staff training
What are the key principles of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998?
LOLER place duties on people and companies that own, operate, or have control over lifting equipment
All lifting operations involving lifting equipment must be properly planned by a competent person, appropriately supervised and carried out in a safe manner
LOLER also requires also requires all equipment used for lifting is fit for purpose, appropriate for the task, suitably marked and usually subject to a statutory periodic examination
What are the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005?
The regulations require employers to protect their employees from excessive levels of noise. Employers are required to:
- Ensure noise doesn’t exceed legal limits. After 85dB, Employers must provide hearing protection
- Ensure equipment provided to employees to control noise is suitable
- Provide information and training on noise awareness
- Carry out health surveillance checks
What is COSHH?
COSHH (Control of substances hazardous to health) requires employers to limit and control exposure to hazardous substances
What are examples of hazardous substances?
Chemicals
Mists
Dusts
vapours
Fumes
Gases
What is corporate manslaughter?
Business is found to have caused a person’s death
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 - gross breach of duty of care
What is RIDDOR?
Reporting of incidents diseases and dangerous occurences regulations
What is the duty of RIDDOR?
Duty of employers and people in control of work premises to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences
What are the 7 categories of RIDDOR?
- Fatalities
- Specified injuries
- 7+ day injuries
- Injury to the public or somebody not at work
- Diseases caused by work-related activity
- Dangerous occurrences
- Gas-related incidents
What is the CDM Regulations 2015?
Construction Design and Management Regulations
Why were CDM Regulations introduced?
- sensibly plan the work so the risks involved are managed from start to finish
- have the right people for the right job at the right time
- cooperate and coordinate your work with others
- have the right information about the risks and how they are being managed
- communicate this information effectively to those who need to know
- consult and engage with workers about the risks and how they are being managed
How many parts does CDM Regulations have?
Introduction
Client duties
Health & Safety Duties and roles
General requirements for all construction sites
General
Who are the key duty holders under CDM Regulations 2015?
Client
Principle designer
Principle contractor
Designers
Contractors
Workers
Who are designers under CDM Regulations 2015?
Designers can be architects, consulting engineers, or anyone who specifies and alters designs as part of their work
What is a Principle Designer?
A principal designer, a role mandated by the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015), is an individual or organization appointed by the client to take control of the pre-construction phase of a project involving more than one contractor, focusing on planning, managing, and coordinating health and safety
What are the key responsibilities of a principle designer under CDM Regulations 2015?
- Plan and coordinate H&S in pre-con phase
- Help and advise Client in obtaining pre-con info
- Provide info to designers and contractors to carry out their duties
- Work with designers to eliminate foreseeable H&S risks - incl. construction and use
- Reduce risks that can’t be eliminated
- Communication during pre-con
- Liaise with principle contractor
What are the key responsibilities of the principle contractor under CDM Regulations 2015?
- Plan, manage and coordinate the construction phase
- Take account of H&S risks to everyone affected by the work and implement control measures to reduce the risks
- Liaise with PD and Client to ensure all risks are managed
- Prepare construction phase plan before construction begins, implement and regularly review
- Have ongoing arrangements in place for managing H&S throughout construction phase
- Ensure suitable welfare facilities are provided from the start and maintained
- Check all workers have site-specific inductions and relevant experience
- Take steps to prevent unauthorised access to site
- Liaise with PD to share info relevant to planning, management, monitoring of the pre-con phase.
What is a F10 notification?
A form which is sent to the HSE to notify them of a relevant construction project.
When is a project notifiable to the HSE under CDM Regulations 2015?
Exceed 30 days with more than 20 workers at any 1 time
Project lasts more than 500 person days
Who issues F10?
Client’s responsibility to notify HSE
What is usually included in the pre-construction pack?
Environmental restrictions
Existing H&S file
Access and egress for contractors
Working hour restrictions
Emergency evacuation procedures
Existing info e.g. asbestos surveys
What is the H&S file?
Specific requirement under CDM Regulations 2015
Ensure those who carry out future works on a structure are made aware of the significant H&S risks. This allows them to plan and manage their works without risk to their own H&S
Who’s responsible for producing the H&S file?
All duty holders
Responsibility for coordinating the file lies with the PD
What’s included in a H&S file?
Description of works
Hazards associated with works
Info regarding removal of installed plant and equipment
Nature and location of services
Residual hazards and how they’re dealt with
Who does the PD pass the H&S file when the document is complete?
Client and end user
