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M08 - Health and Safety Flashcards

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What is your responsibility for H&S in the award of contracts?

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  • Duty of care
  • Have understanding of CDM and Building Regulations
  • Make Client aware of their obligations re CDM (NI) 2016
  • Ensure Contractor has required accreditations such as ISO 18001, Safe T Cert, Considerate Constructors
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What is on the front cover of the RICS Guidance Note, Surveying Safely?

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White blocks

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What regulations are you aware of that govern health and safety?

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  • Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

- CDM Regulations

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What is a method statement?

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It is a document that details the way a work task or process is to be completed. The method statement should outline the hazards involved and include a step by step guide on how to do the job safely

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What is a risk assessment?

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“Is the process where you:

  • Identify hazards
  • Analyse or evaluate the risk associated with that hazard
  • Determine appropriate ways to eliminate or control the hazard”
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What does RAMS stand for?

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Risk Assessment and Method Statement

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What are the changes in CDM 2015?

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  • The HSENI must be notified where the construction work is likely to last longer than 30 working days, have more than 20 workers working simultaneously at any point, or exceed 500 person days
  • CDM Co-ordinator role now obsolete - 31st July, role is completely phased out
  • Client must appoint both Principal Designer and Principal Contractor
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Who is involved in the CDM regs?

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  • Client
  • Principal Designer = Prepares PCI Document, Health & Safety File
  • Principal Contractor = Prepares Construction Phase Plan (O&M Manual to also be provided)
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What do you need to do prior to going to site?

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Refer to the personal risk assessment, read the company’s H&S guidelines and wear appropriate PPE

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What is risk assessment / management?

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Risk management aims to recognise potential problems as early as possible so that the opportunity for taking effective action is maximised

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What is a risk register?

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A document which identifies and tracks potential risks on a project

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What do you do if you find asbestos on site?

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Notify HSE

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What does a PCI Document contain?

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  • Description of the project
  • Contact information for project team
  • Planning and management of the project
  • H&S hazards
  • RAMS - Risk Assessments / Method Statements
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How do you ensure your personal safety when you are going out to meetings?

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Your answer should consider matters such as utilising a call back system, letting others know where you are going, who you are meeting and when you will be back, taking a mobile phone with you, parking nearby and following your instincts.

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Under CDM what is a notifiable project?

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It is notifiable if:

  • Lasts longer than 30 working days and have more than 20 workers working at the same time at any point on the project, or
  • Exceeds 500 person days
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What would you do if you came across asbestos?

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  • Stop working – isolate the area
  • Seal the rooms
  • Relay information of the incident to all persons who may have been exposed – RIDDOR
  • Notify the person identified to take control of the situation / keep all persons away from the affected area.
  • Undertake a risk assessment
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How should asbestos be disposed of?

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Asbestos waste should only be handled by a licensed disposal site. Your local authority can provide details of these for you.

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What is CSCS?

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  • Construction Skills Certification Scheme
  • It is a test which aims to improve site workers’ competence, reduce accidents and drive up on-site efficiency
  • The scheme keeps a database of those working in construction that achieve, or can demonstrate they have already attained an agreed level of occupational competence
  • Successful applicants are issued a card; means of identification and proof of achievement
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On site, you observe a health & safety issue. What do you do?

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  • Notify the Site Manager immediately
  • Notify the project Principal Contractor
  • Client able to terminate contract
  • Inform HSE
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What hazards have you come across on your projects?

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  • Impact of site traffic
  • Manual handling
  • Slips / trips / falls
  • Working Near Water
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What H&S precautions do you take when going on site?

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  • Inform my company
  • Take PPE
  • Sign-in on site
  • Attend site induction / adhere to Contractor site rules
  • Wear PPE
  • Sign-out of site when leaving
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What are the Sub-Contractor’s duties under CDM regulations?

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Sub-Contractors have the same duties as a Contractor
Contractors include sub-contractors, any individual self-employed worker or business that carries out, manages or controls construction work. They must have the skills, knowledge, experience and, where relevant, the organisational capability to carry out the work safely and without risk to health/

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What are the Design Team’s duties under CDM regulations?

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One of the key changes introduced by CDM 2015 is replacement of the role of CDM co-ordinator (CDMC) with a principal designer (PD). The principal designer has responsibility for co-ordination of health and safety during the pre-construction phase. The reason for the change is to give responsibility for CDM during the design phase to an individual that has the ability to influence the design.

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What is Surveying Safely?

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  • Guidance note by the RICS on H&S.
  • Personal and corporate responsibility for H&S
  • Legislation – HSWA 1974, CDM etc. Legal considerations and duties
  • Assessing hazards and risks
  • Property professionals’ places of work
  • Occupational health – noise / manual handling / asbestos / diseases
  • Visiting premises and sites
  • Procurement and management of contractors and construction work – that they have policies
  • Now they have have safe person concept, to make sure the person is competant enough to take responsibility.
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How does RIDDOR handle COVID-19?

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an accident or incident at work has, or could have, led to the release or escape of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). This must be reported asa dangerous occurrence
a person at work (a worker) has been diagnosed as having COVID-19 attributed to an occupational exposure to coronavirus. This must be reported asa case of disease
a worker dies as a result of occupational exposure to coronavirus. This must be reported asa work-related death due to exposure to a biological agent

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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007

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  • Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
  • Companies and organisations could be found guilty of corporate manslaughter and face criminal prosecution as a result of serious management failures resulting in a gross breach of a duty of care.
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What are the penalties for Corporate Manslaughter Act 2007?

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  • An organisation guilty of the offence will be liable to an unlimited fine.
  • The Act also provides for courts to impose a publicity order, requiring the organisation to publicise details of its conviction and fine.
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How do you prove corporate manslaughter?

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  • The accused had a duty of care to the deceased
  • The accused breached that duty of care
  • The breach of duty caused the death and was so severe a breach of duty to be a crime (gross negligence)
  • The accused is a ‘controlling mind or will’ of the company
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What included in pre construction information?

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  • The 2015 Construction (Design and Management) Regulations require that construction clients provide pre-construction information as soon as is practicable to every designer and contractor appointed, or being considered for appointment, to the project.
  • Existing services, ground conditions, surveys, asbestos & as built drawings.
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What should the H&S file cover?

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  • Repository of health and safety information and serves as a legal record that will be of use to both clients and end users.
  • Principle Designer
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What is involved in a site induction?

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  • Site Management Details
  • Site Specific Risks
  • Site Layout
  • Questions
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How do you ensure H&S during tendering?

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  • Does the contractor have a policy, authorised by the most senior executive, outlining clearly the organisation’s commitment to and intentions for managing occupational health and safety?
  • Check the contractor’s monitoring and review procedures to make sure safe systems of work are operated in practice and are effective.
  • Check the contractor’s procedure for selecting, monitoring and maintaining hardware.
  • Have they identified project specific risks and ways to get around them?
  • Do they key people have relevant qualifications? SMSTS?
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What is a method statement?

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  • Method statements are documents that detail exactly how to carry out work safely. When it comes to ensuring building site health and safety, method statements are key. The purpose of method statements is to describe the safety precautions to put in place to control risks identified in the risk assessment.
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What is Contractor all risk insurance?

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  • Contractors all risk insurance typically provides cover for loss or damage to such structures and any plant or tools stored within them
35
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What is the Hacket Review?

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  • Independent review following the Grenfell Disaster
  • “Competence across the system is patchy”
  • “Producttesting, labelling andmarketingis opaque and insufficient”
  • “Stronger change control processes”
  • “A new regulatory framework for multi-occupancy higher-risk residential buildings (HRRBs) that are 10 storeys or more in height”
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What is the Golden Thread?

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  • We should be tracing decision making and accountability right the way through the way through the project, from project inception through to design team decision.
  • Gives end users peace of mind that materials are safely procured.
  • Data sharing of materials are poor, they should be improved and regulated.
37
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How has Brexit changed H&S?

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  • As normal, but Northern Ireland is aligning to more to the EU.

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