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Health and Safety Flashcards

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What do you know about the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?

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  • Key piece of legislation for workplaces in the UK.

Six key points:

  1. Provide a safe place of work
  2. Provide safe equipment
  3. Ensure staff are properly trained
  4. Carry out risk assessments
  5. Provide proper facilities
  6. Appoint a competent person to oversee health and safety
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What do you know about the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 2002?

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  • Regular risk assessments of hazardous substances in the workplace must be undertaken
  • Hazardous substances must be used as intended
  • Hazardous substances must be stored correctly
  • Use of hazardous substances must be avoided if at all possible
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What do you know about the Working at Height Regulations 2005?

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  • Only use ladders for maximum 30 minutes at a time.
  • ensure workers can get safely to and from where they work at height
  • ensure equipment is suitable, stable and strong enough for the job, maintained and checked regularly
  • take precautions when working on or near fragile surfaces
  • provide protection from falling objects
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What do you know about the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR)?

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  • Reporting is required when the accident is work-related or it results in a workplace death or serious injury (major fractures, breaks, burns, chemical accidents)
  • Must be reported if a dangerous event or occurrence (collapse of equipment, explosion, release of dangerous material)
  • Accidents must be reported if a worked is absent through injury for more than 7 days.
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What do you know about the RICS Guidance Note Surveying Safely?

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Guidance Note for members and firms which sets out the basic, good practice principles for the management of health and safety.

Includes things such as the ‘Safe Person Concept’ which places responsibility on both the individual and employer to

Organisational responsibilities within the safe person concept include things such as PPE, supervision, training, safe sytems of work.

Individual responsibilities include, performance, awareness, control and teamwork.

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What do Brown & Co do to manage Health and Safety?

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  • Brown & Co have health and safety facilitators (Jamie) and audits for offices each year.
  • Follow the RICS Guidance Note – Surveying safely
  • Have a lone working policy
  • Follow the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
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What do you know about the management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999?

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  • Employers must undertake risk assessments to identify potential hazards to employee health and safety and anyone who may be affected by their work activity.
  • Employers with five or more employees must record any significant findings.
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What checks would you undertake prior to attending site?

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  • Follow the checklist of matters to consider in the RICS Guidance Note - Surveying Safely
  • pre attendance risk assessment - review of the surroundings, condition of the buildings, nature of the business / property, whether persons will be in occupation
  • any special access requirements
  • any roofs, high structures or dangerous substances
  • PPE equipment required
  • transport to and from the property
  • lone working - is it appropriate / necessary?
  • verify as much information as I can before attending site.
  • continue to assess the risks whilst on site.
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How do you ensure your personal safety when you are going out to meetings?

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  • follow Brown & Co’s lone working policy
  • ensure I wear any relevant PPE if the meeting is on site
  • ensure my calendar is kept up to date with where I am going and what time I will be back
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What is a hazard?

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Something that has the potential to damage, harm or cause adverse health effects on something or someone.

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What is a risk?

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The likelihood that the hazard will cause damage.

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What health and safety proposals were submitted as part of the contractors tender for the decoration works?

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  • Construction Phase Plan
  • Risk assessment
  • Method statement
  • Included details of:
  • Working at heights
  • Traffic management schemes
  • Dealing with members of the public / vulnerable people etc.
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What are the relevant insurances that you refer to that a contractor should have?

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  • Public Liability
  • Professional Indemnity
  • Employer’s Liability
  • Products Liability
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What is a Construction Phase Plan?

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A document that details the health and safety risks associated with the construction phase of the project and the control measures that will be implemented to minimise risks or where possible, eliminate them.

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What is included in a risk assessment?

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  • Identification of any hazards
  • Assessments of the risks
  • Control the risks – put controls in place to reduce the chances of harm or remove the hazard
  • Record of your findings
  • Process to review the controls
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What is a method statement?

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  • Describes the safety precautions in a high-risk work environment to control risks identified in the risk assessment.
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What do you know about the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012?

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  • Requires the dutyholder to take reasonable steps to find out if there are materials containing asbestos in non-domestic premises, and if so, its amount, where it is and what condition it is in.
  • The duty holder must have a management plan in place for handling asbestos.
  • Applies to all buildings built prior to the year 2000.
  • Only licenced contractors can carry out high risk asbestos works, e.g. removal of an asbestos coating. High risk works must be notified to the enforcing authority at least 2 weeks prior to the commencement of the works.
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Types of Asbestos

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  • Chrysotile (white asbestos) is the most commonly used form of asbestos. It can be found today in the roofs, ceilings, walls and floors of homes and businesses. Manufacturers also used chrysotile asbestos in automobile brake linings, gaskets and boiler seals, and insulation for pipes, ducts and appliances.
  • Amosite (brown asbestos) was used most frequently in cement sheets and pipe insulation. It can also be found in insulating board, ceiling tiles and thermal insulation products.
  • Crocidolite (blue asbestos) was commonly used to insulate steam engines. It was also used in some spray-on coatings, pipe insulation, plastics and cement products.
  • Rare types include Anthophyllite, Tremolite and Actinolite.
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What is included in an Asbestos Management Plan?

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  • Who is responsible for managing asbestos;
  • The asbestos register you have just made;
  • Plans for work on asbestos materials;
  • The schedule for monitoring the materials’ condition; and
  • Telling people about your decisions.
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What is ACM?

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Asbestos containing materials

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What are the two different types of asbestos survey and when are they used?

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Asbestos management survey
- To manage asbestos-containing materials (ACM) during the normal occupation and use of premises
- Locates ACM that could be damaged or disturbed by normal activities, by foreseeable maintenance, or by installing new equipment

Refurbishment / demolition survey
- Required where the premises, or part of it, need upgrading, refurbishment or demolition
- Locates and identifies all ACM before any structural work begins at a stated location or on stated equipment at the premises. It involves destructive inspection and asbestos disturbance.

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What do you know about the Construction and Design Management Regulations (CDM) 2015?

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  • For effective planning and management of construction projects form design concept onwards, including planning, design and management until end of construction
  • Ensure health and safety is a part of the development process aiming to reduce risk of injury to those in construction
  • Applies to all construction projects but not domestic clients (people doing work on their own homes) but does apply to contractors working on domestic projects and designers
  • 5 main parts
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What is Brown & Co’s process for instructing works under CDM?

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When employing contractors should use ones preferably from the firm’s shortlist of approved contractors, check their public liability insurance and that they have suitable expertise for the job.

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What work falls outside CDM?

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Doesn’t apply to general maintenance and repair – gardening, cleaning, waste removal etc.

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What is the process for notifying projects to HSE?

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Must notify HSE and complete an F10 form if work is scheduled to last more than 30 working days, and have more than 20 workers working at the same time at any point; or, it has more than 500 person days

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What are the 9 Principles of Prevention under CDM?

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  1. Avoid risks where possible
  2. Evaluate the risks which can’t be avoided
  3. Combat risks at the source
  4. Adapt the work to the individual
  5. Adapt to technical progress
  6. Substitute high-risk for low- or no-risk
  7. Develop a coherent overall prevention policy
  8. Give collective protective measures priority over individual protective measures
  9. Give appropriate instructions to workers
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What are the 5 key elements of the CDM Regulations?

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  1. Manage risks & apply the general principles of prevention
  2. Appoint the right people at the right time
  3. Provide information, instruction, training, and supervision
  4. Cooperate with dutyholders, and
  5. Consult with workers to develop effective risk management
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CDM Project Requirements

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All projects must have:
- A Client’s Brief
- Pre-Construction Information
- Construction Phase Plan
- The right skills, knowledge, training, and experience
- Appropriate supervision, instruction and information

Multi-contractor projects must have the above, in addition to:
- A Health & Safety File
- A Principal Designer and a Principal Contractor

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Who are the Key duty holders under CDM Regulations?

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  • The Client
  • The principle designer
  • Designers
  • The principle contractor
  • Contractors
  • Workers
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What is legionella?

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  • Bacteria grow in water systems
  • Temperature between 20 and 45 degrees increase the risk of legionella growth
  • Employers and the premises owner must understand how to identify, assess and manage Legionella risks, and keep the correct records of what they find and do.
  • They must appoint a competent person to take responsibility for controlling any of the Legionella risks that have been identified.
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What should a legionella risk assessment include?

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  • The name of the competent person
  • A description of the water system that poses the risk
  • Training of key personnel
  • All identified risk sources
  • Inspection and maintenance procedures
  • Any means of preventing and controlling the identified risks
  • Records of the monitoring results and inspections carried out
  • Plans to review the risk assessment regularly to keep it up to date.
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What are the main responsibilities of the Client under CDM?

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Making suitable arrangements for managing a project; appointing other dutyholders; ensuring sufficient time and resources are allocated; ensuring that relevant information is prepared and provided to other dutyholders; the principal designer and principal contractor carry out their duties; welfare facilities are provided.

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What are the main responsibilities of the Principal Contractor?

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Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the construction phase of a project. This includes: liaising with the client and principal designer; preparing the construction phase plan; organising cooperation between contractors and coordinating their work, ensuring that suitable site inductions are provided; take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorised site access; consult and engage workers in securing their health and safety; provide welfare facilities.

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What are the main responsibilities of the Principal Designers

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Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the pre-construction phase of a project, including: identifying, eliminating or controlling foreseeable risks; ensuring designers carry out their duties. Prepare and provide relevant information to other dutyholders. Provide relevant information to the principal contractor to help them plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the construction phase.

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