What’s the latest edition of Surveying Safety?
2nd Edition, November 2018, effective from February 2019
Surveying Safely is an RICS professional standard. What does this mean?
A professional standard means that these are set requirements for RICS members and firms. Members must comply.
What is the ‘safe person’ concept?
‘each individual assumes individual behavioural responsibility for their own, their colleagues’ and others’ health and safety while at work’
What are RICS firms obligated to do to ensure H&S at work?
Provide:
- a safe working environment
- safe work equipment
- safe systems of works
- competent staff
What is CITB stands for?
Construction Industry Training Board
What’s on the front cover of the guidance surveying safely?
A man in PPE holding a clipboard
Do you know four things in the surveying safely guide?
- Risk management techniques for assessing hazards
- Checklist for visiting sites
- Employees’ responsibilities for themselves and for others
- Lone working
What are some risks to consider as an RICS member visiting site
- exposure to excess noise or vibration
- exposure to hazardous materials
- lone working
- may be required to drive for long periods of time
- working close to vehicles
How do you define risk assessment?
Carefully examining what in your work could cause harm to people, so that you can judge whether or not you have taken enough precautions to prevent
harm.
What is the difference between a hazard and a risk?
A hazard is something with the potential to cause harm. Risk is the likelihood of that harm being realised.
Outline how you undertake a risk assessment.
1 identify the hazards
2 decide who might be harmed and how
3 evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
4 record the findings and implement them
5 review the assessment and update if necessary and
6 advise all those affected of the outcome of the assessment and methods of work, or
other control measures necessary, to minimise or eliminate risk
What is a ‘dynamic risk assessment’?
It refers to the process of assessing risk immediatley prior to, or during the works activity.
What are some questions to ask yourself when doing a dynamic risk assessment?
- Is the activity still safe to continue?
- Is the environment still safe for the activity to continue?
- Are there appropriate measures in place?
- Can everyone still get to a place of safety in an emergency?
What does ISO stand for?
International Organisation for Standardisation
What is the ISO?
An independent organisation that develops standards for the quality and safety of various industries.
What is the key health and safety legislation in the UK?
The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
What is the penalty under The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974?
Imprisonment for up to 2 years, or an unlimited fine.
What are the 3 terms associated with managing a risk
- Eliminate the risk
- Reduce the risk
- Implement control measures to manage the risk
What are some H&S considerations for an office environment?
- Welfare facilities
- Access to clean and safe drinking water
- Temperature
- Fresh air
- Adequate light
What is occupational health?
It considers the physical and mental effects of work on health.
What was updated in Surveying Safely 2024?
- Includes a chapter on fire safety
- ## Introduces the concept of a “safe person”
What duties does The Health & Safety Act 1974 impose on employers?
Employers must ensure that health, safety and wellbeing of employees and other affected persons is not at risk, so far as is reasonably practicable.
Under The Health & Safety Act 1974, what charges might a company face if corporate or gross negligence (manslaughter) in charged?
Severe custodial sentences and directors can be disqualified from acting as a director for up to 15 years.
What is the hierarchy of risk control?
- Eliminate
- Substitute
- Engineering Controls
- Administrative Controls
- PPE
