Health and Safety Risk Assessment: Regulations and Procedures

This assignment solution addresses various aspects of health and safety in house refurbishment. Task 1 focuses on risk assessment, outlining steps to identify hazards, assess risks, and record findings. Task 2 covers reporting dangerous gas fittings and occurrences under RIDDOR. Task 3 discusses the Health and Safety Executive's statutory functions, enforcement policies, and legal duties of employers and employees under HASAWA, with case studies illustrating violations. Task 4 examines the eight schedules of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 and safe working practices. Task 5 details procedures for removing and disposing of a tank, and the dangers of asbestos. Task 6 analyzes the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989. Task 7 explains CLP hazard pictograms and the eight principles of COSHH. Task 8 addresses HSE regulations on manual handling and the MAC assessment.

ASSIGNMENT

Task 1
i. Risk Assessment is one of the vital actions and considerations to be made in the
House Refurbishment as this helps in avoiding any accidents or injury that might
take place in its execution. The purpose of risk assessment is to reduce the
probability of accident and injury in the refurbishment.
ii. The Risk Assessment could be carried out through the following steps,
a. Identify the Hazards which reflects those things which may cause any harm
b. Identifying the victims of the hazardous or in other words, who would be
harmed and how they would be harmed.
c. Assessing the risks and take required actions, this would be the third step.
d. The findings through the assessment should be recorded.
e. Finally the review of the risk assessment should be made.
iii. Hazard could be defined as the any agent which may cause harm or damage to the
humans, environment or property. The harm that might take place during
execution of any work (Hse.gov.uk, 2019).
iv. Risk could be defined as the situation which involves exposure to danger. It can
also be stated as the intentional interaction with uncertainty.
v. The steps that would be followed in the House Refurbishment risk assessment,
would be as done as follows:
a. The identification of the hazards would be done through acknowledging the
areas which are in disaster state and the collapse of those areas could injure the
people at large.
b. The victims or the people who would be injured through hazards would
include the ones who would work for enhancing the areas of refurbishment
and thus, they need to be protected.
c. The risks that may be part of the refurbishment includes the injury of the
workers, damage of other parts of the house, etc.
d. The risks observed or predicted would be recorded systematically for further
enquiry (Hse.gov.uk, 2019).
e. The risk assessment plan would be considered for taking on the best solution.
vi. COSHH Risk Template

vii. Working at Heights Assessment Template

viii. Manual Handling Assessment

The different templates for specific risk assessments, provides a scope of identifying the
hazards in specific and accurate manner and the reason for its occurrence also gets clarified.
This clarification helps in getting to the specific and effective solutions. The work could be
carried out in a safe and secured manner through these considerations.
Task 2
i. The dangerous gas fitting should be reported to comply with RIDDOR through
filling up the form concerning the gas fitting and the form should be closely
verified and approved.
ii. The dangerous occurrence should be reported to comply with RIDDOR through
filling up the concerned form and reaching out to the specific solutions
(Aber.ac.uk, 2019).
iii. In case of dangerous gas fitting the form that needs to be filled is F250842 form
iv. In case of dangerous occurrence the form that needs to be filled is F2508 form

Task 3
i. The Statutory function of the Health and Safety Executives as per the HSE’s
Enforcement Policy Statement is to secure the health safety and welfare of people
at work and protect others from risk to health and safety during the work
activities.
ii. The Enforcement of the Policy could be done through the inspectors who may
inform about the policy to the workers or the personnel responsible for the
workers. The enforcement of the policy could also be done through providing the
workers with the detailed knowledge of the policy.
iii. The factors that needs to be taken into consideration for investigation includes
a. the seriousness of any potential breach of the law,
b. enforcement policies
c. practicality of achieving the results
d. scale of potential or actual harm
e. wider relevance of the program (Legislation.gov.uk, 2019).
iv. The legal duties of employers and employees in relation to HASAWA (Health and
Safety at Work Act, 1974), states that the employers must protect the health,
safety and welfare at work for each and every employees along with others who
are working in their premises.
v. 1st Case: A building under construction, was observed to not follow or levy the
safety and security laws for its workers, and one of its workers met an accident.
The employer must have verified the safety and security scenario of the site which
would have saved the workers life.
2nd Case: The renovation of an official building was carried out while the working
hours of the employees, which injured some of its employees through a minor
accident. The employer should have followed the HASAWA law.
3rd Case: The refurbishment of the residential building witnessed an accident of
the worker through not considering the health condition which should have been
made.
Task 4

i. The eight schedules of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, covers the following
eight schedules which are quite vital and carries a high significance in case of the
health and safety of the workers.
a. existing places of work and means of access for work at height
b. collective fall prevention
c. working Platforms
d. Collective Fall Arrest
e. Personal Fall Protection
f. Ladders and Step Ladders
g. Inspection Reports
h. Revocations
ii. The steps that needs to be followed for working at a height are as follows
a. all work is properly planned and organised
b. weather conditions are considered
c. trained and competent workers are recruited
d. safety is assured at the site (University of Greenwich, 2019).
e. inspection of the work place and the equipment’s is done properly
f. risk from fragile substances are maintained
g. risk from falling objects are maintained well
iii. The schedule 6 of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 states that the ladders
should be accurately inspected and the use of best quality ladders should be done.
Task 5
i. The following actions would be done in the specified manner.
a. Preparing The Work Area: This would be done through inspecting each corner
of the work area and its reliability
b. Equipment Required: The equipment’s required would include the safety
equipment’s along with the executive equipment’s.
c. PPE Required: The personal protective equipment’s would include protective
clothing, helmets, gloves, and goggles.
d. Procedure: The following up of the plan would be the only procedure to be
followed.

e. Removal: The intact tank would be removed through utilising the technology
of breaking the tank into pieces and then removing it.
f. Cleaning and Disposable: The cleaning and disposable of the waste would be
done through manual and machinery techniques both (Hse.gov.uk, 2019).
g. Personal Decontamination: The cuts and injuries would be washed with
antiseptics and then a proper shower with soap would be done.
ii. The white asbestos also known as Chrysolite, which are observed to be contaminated with
trace amounts of tremolite, it is harmful for the lungs and the Grey asbestos if they are
exposed then it may be harmful. The blue asbestos or the crocidolite are the most dangerous
as they are shorty and spikey. The asbestos cement materials are the mixture of cement and
absestos which are hard in texture.
Task 6
a. Regulation 4: The Electricity at Work Regulation 1989, regulation 4 deals with the
Systems, work activities and protective equipment’s which states that the working
should be carried in a protective and systematic manner.
b. Regulation 6: The concerned regulation is related to the Adverse and Hazardous
Environment, which is concerned for mechanical damage, effects of wet, dusty, dirty,
corrosive conditions and others.
c. Regulation 12: The regulation is concerned with the Means of Cutting off the Supply
and for Isolation.
d. Regulation 13: This is concerned with the Precautions for work on Equipment made
dead and is a significant aspect.
e. Regulation 15: This is a significant regulation as it specifies and mandates the
Working space access and lightning (Arewa et al. 2017).
f. Regulation 16: The regulation 16 is related to the persons to be competent to prevent
danger and injury. It helps in making the people much more competitive and alert.
Task 7
i. CLP Hazard Pictogram

ii. The eight principles of COSSH are as follows, which needs to be followed
a. The proper designing and operations processes should be done in order to minimise
emission, release and spreading of substances.
b. The consideration of all the possible scopes of exposure should be made which may
include inhalation, skin, etc.
c. Control exposure should be made through measuring the proportion to health risk
d. The most effective and specific solutions to the exposure should be taken which
would reduce the risk of exposure (Forde and Slater, 2016).
e. In the absence of the adequate control of exposure, combination with other means of
control measures should be provided
f. Information and training should be provided adequately to the workers.
g. The information being provided do not add on to the risk to health and security should
be assured.
Task 8
i. HSE Regulations
1. Yes, there is a maximum limit to the weight that is to be lifted by a person in a
day.
2. No, the HSE has not provided any guidelines on team handling as it deals with the
health and safety Regulations of the workers (Orcutt et al. 2019).
ii. The MAC is the Manual Handling Assessment Charts which helps in the identification of
the high risk workplace in manual handling.

iv. The following steps are required for completing the MAC assessment
a. Identifying the tasks to be assessed
b. Consulting employees
c. Observing the activities closely
d. Selection of appropriate assessment

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