Legislation / Guidance Flashcards
Are you aware of the modern slavery act?
It sets out a range of measures on how modern slavery and human trafficking should be combated.
Whilst not all of the Act is directly relevant for business, section 54 entitled ‘Transparency in supply chains’ impacts the corporate sector.
What did you learn from the RICS ‘Conflict of Interest’ Professional Standard?
Split into three parts:
1. Sets out mandatory rules for members including definitions
2. Sets out principles on how to apply the standard
3. Provides guidance on how to meet the regulations
What did you learn from the RICS ‘Conflict Avoidance and Dispute Resolution in Construction’ Guidance Note?
- Avoiding conflict in the first instance is always the best option
- Broadly seperates conflict resolution into 3 categories: Negotiation, Mediation and Ajudication
What did you learn from the RICS ‘Appropriate Contract Selection’ Practice Information?
- Its sets out the typically procurement routes available
- Depicts how the client interacts with various stakeholders which needs to be established before a contract can be selected.
What are the parts of an NDA?
Named parties
Description of what is considered confidential
Requirements and obligations
Exclusions ie information in the public domain
Terms of the agreement
Consequences of a breach
Return and destruction of infomration
What did you learn from the RICS ‘Common Mistakes with Negotiations’ Training Article?
- The need to adequately prepare
- Engagment with the correct people with correct authority
- Staying focussed on the overall objective
- Acting professionally without becoming too emotive
Are you aware of the health and safety at work act?
- It is the primary legislation that sets H&S standards in the workplace.
- Sets out employers responsabilities to employers and the public to provide adequate training and welfare, risk assessments and a safe working environment.
- Sets out employees responsabilites to themselves and each other
- H&S should be specific to the workplace.
- It’s an enabling act whcih means other legislation can be created without having to pass other act.
Are you aware of the fire safety act?
Introduced to strengthen the fire safety order following grenfell.
Clarifies that the responsible person must manage and reduce the risk of fire in multi-occupied residential buildings
Amended to include the external fabric of a building including cladding, windows and doors
Are you aware of the control of asbestos regulations?
Sets out the management of risk of asbestos including assessment, planning, monitoring and notifying
What did you learn from the RICS ‘Surveying Safely’ Professional Standard?
- It sets out the principles for H&S practices at both corporate and individual levels
- As a surveyor I am responsible for understanding the H&S risks for the various tasks I undertake and I have a responsability for my own, my colleagues and others H&S while at work.
Are you aware of the Building Safety Act 2022?
The focus of the act is on building structural and fire safety and the management of H&S risks.
The recent changes in the 2022 edition include:
- New duties for the management of fire and building safety in high-risk buildings, those being multiple occupancy over 18m or 7 storeys high
- Introduces the Building Safety Regulator as the building control authority for higher-risk buildings
- Sets requirements for a ‘golden thread’ of information to be created, stored and maintained that informs and governs a buildings safety
What is your understanding on the CDM Regulations?
- To ensure all stakeholders consider the H&S risks of those undertaking the works
- Places statutory duties on clients, the principal designer and contractors
- Improves safety through design, planning and management
What is the Data Protection Act?
UK’s implementation of GDPR
Sets regulation on how personal data is collected, used, stored and shared
What is GDPR?
General Data Protection Regulation
EU directive to created consistency in how data is managed
In response to social trends surrounding technology and the sue of personal information
What is the Equality Act?
It is a discrimination law that protects the rights of all individuals and promtes equality regardless of personal characteristics.