Health and Safety Flashcards
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Summarise the Building Safety Act 2022?
The Building Safety Act 2022 improves building safety regulations, especially for high-rise residential buildings.
It creates a Building Safety Regulator,
defines clear legal duties for owners and developers,
introduces a “Golden Thread” of safety information,
and gives residents more rights.
It also extends liability periods for building defects 15 years for buildings have June 2022, 30 years for buildings and protects leaseholders from unfair costs.
What is Health & Safety?
A broad term encompassing the legal and professional measures, guidelines, standards and regulations designed to prevent accidents and hazards
What defines a high risk building according the the Building Safety Act 2022?
18m high or 7 storeys
must have atleast two residential dwellings
What is the golden thread?
A live, accurate, digital record of key information about a building’s design, construction, and ongoing safety management that needs to be kept, updated and readily available throughout the lifespan of the building.
What is the RICS Professional Standard in relation to health and safety?
RICS Guidance - Surveying Safely
I see you read Surveying Safely, explain to me one concept / thing you learnt.
The ‘safe person’ concept means that each individual assumes individual
behavioural responsibility for their own, their colleagues’ and others’ health and safety while at work.
Name three things the RICS surveying safely guidance teach us about visiting site?
The requirement to undertake your own risk assessment
Tell your line manager or someone within your firm when you are attending site on your own
Inform someone when you leave site
What is the purpose of the surveying safely professional standard?
It sets out principles for management of health and safety for RICS firms and members.
in order to protect individuals (which includes both
employees and the general public) from harm.
What does surveying safely cover?
Contents
Responsibilities for firms/members
Assessing hazards and risks
RICS members place of work
Site visits
fire safety
What is the purpose of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?
What are the general duties and for who?
Sets out occupational health and safety in GB.
Sets out general duties that:
- employers have towards employees and public
- employees have to themselves and others
- self-employer have towards themselves and others.
What are the employers requirements under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974?
Ensuring Health & Saftey at work
Providing safe systems and equipment
Risk assessments
First aid provision
Health & safety training
Reporting of accidents and diseases
Display information
Requirements for Employees under H&S at work Act 1974?
Take reasonable care for themselves & others
Cooperate with their employer in the undertaking of their duties under the act
What does CDM stand for?
Construction (Design and Management)
What roles are specified in the CDM Regulations 2015?
Principle Contractor
Principle Designer
Client
What is the Principal Designers Role under CDM regs 2015?
Plan manage and monitor the pre con phase of a project
Provide relevant information to other duty holders
Prepare and regulary update the Health & Safety file
Provide pre con information to every tenderer
Liase with the principal contractor for the duration of the project
What is role of PD post contract?
Liaise with the principal contractor, keeping them informed of any risks that need to be controlled during the construction phase
Preparing, revising and updating the health and safety file to handover to client at end of the project.
What is the Principal Contractors Role under CDM regs 2015?
Develop & implement Construction Phase Plan
Coodinate work
Site inductions
Risk and Method Statement RAMS
Monitor H&S on site
Enforce site rules
Welfare facilities
What is the employers role under CDM regs 2015?
Appoint the Principal Designer
Ensure Adequate management
Provide Pre-Construction Information
Ensure Construction Phase plan is in place
Make sure that the work is completed safely and that a health and safety file is in place
What is the QS’s role under CDM regulations 2015?
We count as a designer if we do any value engineering or are involved in design choices that impact costs.
What did you learn in your H&S Essentials training?
Focused on health and safety in the office:
Slips, Trips and Falls
Fire Safety
Electrical Hazards
Stress & mental health
Air quality
What is RIDDOR?
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases & Dangerours Occurances Regulation 2013
What is reportable under RIDDOR?
The types of incidents to report to Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under RIDDOR include:
work-related deaths,
major injuries,
7-day injuries (those causing more than seven day’s inability to carry out normal duties),
injuries to non-workers,
some work-related diseases,
dangerous occurrences,
and gas incidents.
Who should report under RIDDOR?
employers (in relation to workers)
some self-employed people
those in control of work premises when a reportable work-related accident or event has occurred
Under what circumstances would you need to contact the HSE?
a RIDDOR report is only required when:
-the accident is work related, and
-it results in a reportable injury
Reportable injuries include:
-work-related deaths
-major injuries
-7-day injuries (those causing more than seven day’s inability to carry out normal duties)
-injuries to non-workers,
-some work-related diseases,
-dangerous occurrences,
-gas incidents.
