Inspection - Flash Cards - Level 1
(21 cards)
What guidance can you refer to for additional guidance on undertaking inspections?
RICS Surveying Safely 2nd edition, HSE guidance
What does RICS surveying safely contain?
Professional responsibilities for RICS members and firms, assessing hazards and risks, information on visiting premises or sites.
What are some considerations you should have before visiting site?
Travel, lone working, site condition, occupation, site rules, roof access, asbestos.
What is a dynamic risk assessment?
Evaluating the risk of undertaking an activity in practice prior to undertaking the activity.
What are different types of inspection that you undertake?
Condition survey, PPM survey, site progress / snagging inspections.
What is your companies lone working policy?
AOS - System that is used when working on visits with risk that monitors location and responsiveness through telephone communications. RA is undertaken at the outset.
What is the hierarchy of risk control?
1 - elimination, 2 - substitution, 3 - engineering controls, 4 - administrative controls, 5 - PPE
What information would you obtain before a survey?
Floorplans, asbestos information, building O&M, fire safety information, access information, security clearance.
How would you minimise risk before undertaking a site inspection?
Undertake internal project risk assessment, obtain desktop information form the client, highlight areas of access concern and raise them with the client, dynamic risk assessment when on site.
What is the difference between a condition survey and a PPM survey?
PPM allows pro active approach to future maintenance, condition survey establishes the buildings current condition highlighting current defects.
What is a condition survey?
Identified buildings current condition, key defects will be highlighted using RAG or severity scale, along will recommendations. Broken down in to building elements with photographic schedule.
What is a PPM survey?
Pre-empts building maintenance work before it becomes defective, identifying building material, quantities, install date, current condition and remining life. Allows planning for maintenance over a 5 - 10 year period.
What is a schedule of condition?
Survey identifying the current condition of the building and its elements, commonly undertaken at the beginning of a lease or refub project.
What is a dilapidations survey?
A dilapidation survey is undertaken at the end of a lease, the survey records the dilapidations in comparison to the condition of the building recorded in the schedule of condition that would have been undertaken at the beginning of the lease.
How can you provide a client with concise reporting?
Client briefing meeting, clear scope, pilot survey, agree reporting template, comprehensive report with photos.
How do you measure quality on a project?
Undertaking regular site progress inspections, ensuring correct products are installed, requesting evidence of invoicing and delivery notes, ensuring products have been installed correctly referring to manufacture instructions and specifications, reviewing standardisation bodies such as BBA or BS Kite Mark.
What happens if you come across asbestos during an inspection?
I will have the survey prior to survey, if I identify damaged asbestos I will record, leave the area, and highlight to the client immediately.
What risks do you consider when undertaking an inspection?
Lone working, asbestos, working at height, hazards associated with empty properties, confined spaces.
What would you consider before going to a site to undertaken an inspection?
Competency, insured, agreement been signed, risks involved, type of survey, desktop info.
How would you determine the condition of an electrical installation?
Age, service history, operational, visual condition, O&M.
What are wood wool slabs?
Mineralised wood bound together with cement paste. Become weak if saturated with water. Where used as shuttering for concrete, it could cause honeycombing.
