Health and safety Flashcards
What are the risks of loan working?
As there is no one with you - if you are injured to something happens you there is no one there to assist.
How would you undertake a risk assessment?
1 – Identify hazards present
2 – Identify people at risk
3 – Evaluate the risk / precautions in place
4 – Record findings
5 – Review regularly
6 – Make all parties aware of the outcome and precautions
Explain the principle of the ‘safe person’ outlined in Surveying Safely
A safe person means that an individual assumes individual responsibility for their own their colleagues and others health and safety at work.
Who Police is the health and safety at work act 1974?
Health and safety executive (HSE)
What is included in the company’s health and safety policy?
- Commitment to health and safety
- Details of the organization’s health and safety structure with roles and responsibilities
- A risk assessment with preventative measures
- Details of the implementation/planning
FIRE?
Fire Safety Act 2021
- Following the Hackett review
- Responsible person
- Inspections of lifts reported to Fire Service
Building Safty act 2022
- combustible cladding banned on 18m+
- Definition of high risk building
Who does the occupiers liability act 1957 place a duty on?
Those who are in occupation or in control of the premises
It Imposes a common duty of care
What does the defective premises act 1972 require the landlord to do
A landlord has a duty of care to all those who might reasonably be expected to be affected by the defective premises
What is your firms lone working policy?
- Diary up to date with details of the property and who you are meeting
- Let collogues know where you are going and when you’ll be back
- Phone on arrival and when you leave
- Procedure in place with a safe word
What are the statutory requirements set out under H&S at
Work act 1974
Duty To every employer to ensure so far is reasonably practical the health and safety and welfare at work all employees.
Policed by HSE (Health and safety executive)
Must report injuries and dangerous occurrences
Must record and regularly review a risk assessment
It has it relates to anything that has potential to cause harm
The probability/likelihood that someone will be harmed is called the risk
What is the content and structure of surveying safely 2nd?
edition 2018
The structure of the document
1. Personal responsibilities for RICS members and firms
2. Assessing risks and hazards
3. Workplace health and safety
4. Occupational hygiene and health
5. Visiting premises and Sites
6. Fire safety
7. Residential property surveying
8. Procurement management of contractors
RICS Members and Firms Must Provide
1. Safe working environment
2. Safe work equipment
3. Safe systems of work
4. Competent staff
Reporting of injuries diseases and dangerous occurrences
Regulations (RIDDOR)
- The trigger date for reporting injuries is over seven days incapacitation
- Such injuries must be reported to HSC within 15 days of the accident
- All employers must also keep a record of all three day plus injuries
Asbestos type and legislation?
There is a statutory duty to manage the asbestos
2 separate obligations to the duty holder and the employer
White (banned 2000)
Brown (banned 1985)
Blue (banned 1985)
Management survey to locate – locate and assess and advise on management Refurbish and demolition survey – samples taken
The FIVE steps to take are:
1 – Assess whether the property contains asbestos
2 – Assess the risk and produce an asbestos management plan
3 – Produce an asbestos register
4 – Make the register available to all relevant parties who
might disturb it
5 – Review the register regularly (HSE recommend 6 monthly)
RICS Guidance note 2021 Asbestos Legal requirements and best practice.
- Common materials
- How to commission a survey
- Suggested contents of an asbestos management plan
