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​D - Health, Safety and Welfare
A failure at health, safety and welfare will result in a fail at the review.

Understand the safety implications of the role

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Complete tasks with due consideration for safety

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Comply with safe systems of work

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D1 Understand the safety implications of the role:

Evidence of applying current safety requirements, such as RAs, HIs and other examples of good practice candidate adopts in their work.

Show evidence of formal safety training, eg CSCS or an update on statutory regulations (eg COSHH).

Knowledge of CDM regs.

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Understand the safety implications of the role

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H&S documents

What is the difference between a hazard and a risk?

 

Do you know what the Pre-Construction H&S Information consists of and why a document is produced?

 

What sort of information goes into a designer’s risk assessment? How should you make sure only significant hazards are identified?

Anything out of the ordinary on specific project that the contractor is likely to be unaware of.

 

What’s the risk of putting insignificant risks into a RA? What might these be?

The significant ones will be missed. Anything a competent contractor with experience in the field should be aware of and incorporates in their own RAMS. Slips and trips, manual handling of common components, handing materials that are common in the type of work to be done.

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How does a risk matrix work? What columns of information would typically be included in a HI & RA document?

Likelihood of hazard occurring vs severity of outcome. Hazard, who is affected, mitigation measures by designer, by contractor and residual risk.

 

How did you go about writing the RA and MS for the xxxxxxxxxx? What sort of things did you cover and how did you communicate all the information to everyone concerned?

 

What is the importance of as-built information with regard to H&S?

 

What have you done to ensure that the workforce has sufficient information for safe completion of tasks?

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​CDM regulations

Do you know what CDM stands for?

Construction (Design and Management) Regulations

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What are the main three roles under CDM?/What is the role of your organisation under CDM?

Client, Principal Designer, Principal Contractor

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D2 Complete tasks with due consideration for safety

Examples of methodical assessment of risk in specific projects

Actions taken to minimise risk to society or the environment.

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Complete tasks with due consideration for safety

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UXO

Consider the case that you’re involved in the development of an old wartime aerodrome. What hazards might be present? Do you know how these would be mitigated?

UXO and oil contamination. Magnetometer survey. Desktop study of history. Trial pits, maybe boreholes and soils testing for contamination.

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D3 Comply with safe systems of work

Candidate to demonstrate how they manage their own health and safety and that of others around them.

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Comply with safe systems of work

 

​H&S in the office

What sort of H&S considerations are relevant to office working?

DSE including for posture/vision/breaks, ventilation, heating.

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​H&S in the public realm

Scenario – walking the street and see men on a ladder and roof of shop, sliding roof tiles down the ladder, no PPE. What would you do?

Speak to owner of shop in the first instance. If they don’t care, warn public in the location, contact police and HSE.

​H&S on site

What sort of H&S considerations are relevant to site working?

 

Talk a bit about Hand Arm vibration. What is it? What regulations cover this hazard?

 

Talk about the hazards connected with underground and overhead services.

 

What site based H&S considerations should you take into account when detailing reinforcement?

Weight of cages, sufficient laps, cover projecting bars, manual handling.

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What should you do if you see a site worker carrying out a hazardous task with no apparent safety precautions in place?

Ask them to stop immediately. You report incident to their supervisor. Also report to the NEC PM.

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