Health & Safety Flashcards
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What is the primary legislation that governs UK Health & Safety
Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
Who is responsible for enforcing the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
Health and Safety Executive
What is the secondary legislation that governs UK Health & Safety
Examples include:
1. CDM Regulations 2015
2. Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
3. Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
4. Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
What is the difference between primary and secondary health & safety legislation
Primary legislation is passed by Parliament and forms the foundation of the legal system.
Secondary legislation is produced by government bodies to provide more subject specific details on how to ensure the primary legislation is being followed.
What is the role of a Designer in relation to the CDM regulations 2015
- Ensure the Client is aware of their duties
- Take into account pre-construction information provided by Client or Principal Designer.
- Eliminate foreseeable health and safety risks to anyone affected by the project (if possible).
- Take steps to reduce or control any risks that cannot be eliminated.
- Provide information to the Principal Designer for inclusion in the pre-construction information and health & safety file, and to the Client and Principal Contractor to enable them to perform their duties.
- Communicate, co-operate and co-ordinate with all designers and contractors.
What is the role of the Client in relation to the CDM regulations 2015
- Ensuring adequate time and resources is allocated to appropriately appointed duty holders e.g. Designers, Contractors
- Make relevant information is prepared and provided to other dutyholders
- Make sure the Principal Designer and Principal Contractor carry out their duties
- Provide adequate welfare facilities
What is the role of Principal Designer in relation to the CDM regulations
- Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health and safety in the pre-construction phase
- Help and advise the client in bringing together pre-construction information, and provide the information designers and contractors need to carry out their duties.
- Work with any other designers on the project to eliminate foreseeable health and safety risks to anyone affected by the work and, where that is not possible, take steps to reduce or control those risks
- Ensure that everyone involved in the pre-construction phase communicates and cooperates, coordinating their work.
- Liaise with the principal contractor, keeping them informed of any risks that need to be controlled during the construction phase
What is the role of the Principal Contractor is relation to the CDM regulations 2015
- Plan, manage, monitor and coordinate the entire construction phase
- Take account of the health and safety risks to everyone affected by the work (including members of the public), in planning and managing the measures needed to control them.
- Liaise with the client and principal designer for the duration of the project to ensure that all risks are effectively managed.
- Prepare, implement and regularly review the construction phase plan.
- Consult and engage with workers about their health, safety and welfare.
- Ensure suitable welfare facilities are provided
- Check that anyone they appoint has the skills, knowledge, experience and, where relevant, the organisational capability to carry out their work safely and without risk to health.
- Ensure all workers have site-specific inductions, and any further information and training they need
- Take steps to prevent unauthorised access to the site
- Liaise with the principal designer to share any information relevant to the planning, management, monitoring and coordination of the pre-construction phase
How did health and safety regulations influence your design of the scour pipe
Since the scour pipes are going to be located inside a tunnel, a key piece of legislation very relevant to the scour pipe design is the confined space regulations.
Firstly, the thing to consider is whether the risk of entering a confined space can be eliminated.
- Siphons going up and over the embankment were considered to eliminate the need for the tunnel, but siphon require priming and by their nature less reliable than gravity based systems.
Entry to a confined space unlikely to be avoidable. As a Designer under CDM regulations, I’m responsible for as far as reasonably practicable, reducing the risk of the confined space:
- Tunnel designed such that there is sufficient headroom for an operative/construction worker to walk through the tunnel without stooping (including their hardhats)
- Access through the outlet tower to be via a Building Reg K compliant staircase - no ladders
- Valves arranged so they have clear vertical space between them so they can be lifted from a crane positioned on a floating barge
Things I’m also going to need to consider as the design progresses:
- Lighting
- Replacement of pipe sections
- Fire and escapes
- Ventilation
- Water-tightness
- Expansion/contraction joints
How did health & safety regulations impact the design process for the drawdown disposal system.
Key pieces of legislation are the Reservoirs Act 1975, the CDM regulations 2015, and whilst not a regulation but more industry accepted guidance, Floods and Reservoir Safety.
These were used to define the reservoir’s risk category which then informed the required drawdown rate required.
As a Designer acting in accordance with the CDM regulations, the drawdown disposal option selection process I went to explored various options in which the risk presented by pass forward flows could be reduced.
How does the Reservoirs Act 1975 protect the public
Ultimately holds reservoir Undertakers legally responsible for the safe ownership of large raised reservoirs.
Undertakers must appoint a Qualified Civil Engineer to supervise the reservoir and carry out inspections. 3 types of panel engineer:
o Construction engineer – for construction and alterations
o Supervising engineer – for annual inspections – S12 reports
o Inspecting engineer – for 10-year inspections – S10 reports
In England and Wales ONLY
o Undertakers must choose an engineer from the:
all reservoirs panel for supervising, inspecting and construction engineers for any reservoir
non-impounding reservoirs panel for supervising engineers for any reservoir and inspecting or construction engineers for non-impounding reservoirs
service reservoirs panel for supervising engineers for any reservoir and inspecting or construction engineers for service reservoirs
supervising panel for supervising engineers for any reservoir
They must also
* Prepare a reservoir flood plan and flood map
* Prepare an inspection information pack including:
o Prescribed Form of Record
o On site emergency flood plan
o Construction drawings and design documents
o Reports, certificates, annexes and directions of engineers and referees
o Health & Safety files for construction, alteration and maintenance activities
* Report incidents
* Act on Matters in the Interest of Safety as raised by the Inspecting Engineer
How did you communicate the residual health and safety risks
Mott MacDonald uses a document called a DHEMR standing for Designer’s Hazard Elimination and Management Record, but otherwise known as a Designer’s Risk Assessment.
Within this record, I contributed to tracking all of the hazards identified and the methods in which the risk had been eliminated, reduced, isolated or controlled. For the residual risks, these were then communicated via the labelled hazard triangles on the design drawings, within the pre-construction information and within the health & safety file.
