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Part A – Duty Holder Health & Safety Statutory Compliance

Part A – Duty Holder Health & Safety Statutory Compliance

Accident Reporting & Investigation

  • Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations<br>1995

  • Work-related deaths

  • Specified injuries

  • Over-three-day injuries

  • Over-seven-day injuries

  • Work related diseases

  • Dangerous occurrences

  • Near miss accidents

Asbestos Management

  • Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974<br>Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

  • The duty holder must nominate a “Responsible Person” to prevent exposure to asbestos and to manage all identified and presumed asbestos containing materials.

Confined Spaces

  • Confined Spaces Regulations 1997<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974<br>Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

  • A suitable and sufficient assessment exists of the risks for all work activities for the purpose of deciding what measures are necessary for safety.

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

  • Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002 (as<br>amended)<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

  • If you can’t prevent exposure, are you controlling it ‘adequately’ by<br>applying the “Principles of Good Control Practice” set out in the COSHH<br>Regulations

  • A suitable and sufficient assessment exists of the risks for all COSHH for the purpose of deciding what measures are necessary for safety.

Construction Design & Management (CDM)

  • Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM)<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974<br>Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Disability Discrimination

  • Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA)

  • Ensure the building / premises for which you are responsible has a<br>full Access Audit / Report

  • Monitor the building / premises for which you are responsible to<br>ensure continued compliance with DDA.

Fire Safety Management

  • Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005

  • Carry out a fire-risk assessment identifying any possible dangers and risks

  • Consider who may be especially at risk;

  • Eliminate or reduce the risk from fire as far as is reasonably possible

  • Provide general fire precautions to deal with any possible risk that could be left

  • Take other measures to make sure there is protection if flammable or explosive materials are used or stored

  • Create a plan to deal with any emergency (see below for more details on Fire Safety Emergency Plans)

  • Undertake regular fire evacuation training and drills

  • When was the date of the last drill?

  • Is this within 12 months?

  • Keep a record of your findings

  • Review your findings when necessary

First Aid arrangements

  • Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974<br>Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

  • A suitably stocked first-aid box

  • An appointed person to take charge of first-aid arrangements

  • Information for employees about first-aid arrangements

Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment (LOLER)

  • Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

  • Sufficiently strong, stable and suitable for the proposed use? Similarly, the load and anything attached (e.g. timber pallets, lifting points) must be suitable.

  • Positioned or installed to prevent the risk of injury, e.g. from the equipment or the load falling or striking people?

  • Visibly marked with any appropriate information to be taken into account for its safe use, e.g. safe working loads? Accessories, e.g. slings, clamps etc, should be similarly marked.

Managing Contractors

  • Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM)<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974<br>Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999<br>Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002 (as<br>amended)

  • Do you always know who’s on site?

  • Assess contractors’ competence in health and safety and check for<br>evidence before they get the job

  • Look into contractors’ procedures for health and safety to make sure<br>they can fit in with yours

  • Plan for the contractor’s job and assess the hazards at each stage

  • Inform them of the hazards on site and of your emergency<br>procedures before they start

  • Keep track of their progress until the job finishes

  • Keep records

Manual Handling

  • Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended)<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

  • Consider the risks from manual handling to the health and safety of<br>your staff

  • Consult and involve the workforce. Our staff and their<br>representatives know first-hand what the risks in the workplace are<br>and can probably offer practical solutions to controlling them

  • Avoid hazardous manual handling operations so far as is reasonably practicable, for example by redesigning the task to avoid moving the load or by automating or mechanising the process.

  • Make a suitable and sufficient assessment of any hazardous manual<br>handling operations that cannot be avoided.

  • Reduce the risk of injury from those operations so far as is<br>reasonably practicable. Where possible, you should provide<br>mechanical assistance, for example a sack trolley or hoist. Where<br>this is not reasonably practicable, look at ways of changing the task,<br>the load and working environment

Monitoring health and safety

  • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

  • Are there active systems which monitor the achievement of plans and the<br>extent of compliance with standards?

  • Are there reactive systems, which monitor accidents, ill health and incidents.<br>Monitoring health and safety performance against pre-determined plans<br>and standards is a line management responsibility.

  • Reporting injuries and cases of ill health (including monitoring of sickness absence records)

  • Reporting other losses, such as damage to property

  • Reporting incidents, including those with the potential to cause injury, ill health or loss

  • Reporting hazards

  • Reporting weakness or omissions in H&S performance standards

Movement of people and vehicles

  • Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974<br>Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

  • There are documented site rules for vehicle and pedestrian activities and that these rules are distributed to all those affected by those activities

  • Supervisors, drivers and others, including contractors and visiting drivers, are aware of the site rules and ensure they are aware of their responsibilities in terms of helping to maintain a safe workplace and environment

  • That a risk assessment is completed for all workplace transport hazards

  • The level of supervision is sufficient to maintain safe standards

  • Sanctions are applied when employees, contractors, etc fail to maintain these standards

  • Adequate steps are taken to detect unsafe behaviour of drivers of both site and visiting vehicles as well as pedestrians and ensure the underlying reasons are investigated in order to correct unsafe behaviour

  • There is good co-operation and liaison on health and safety matters between staff and those who collect or deliver goods

Noise at Work

  • Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

  • Assess the risks to your employees from noise at work

  • Take action to reduce the noise exposure that produces those risks

  • Provide your staff with hearing protection if you cannot reduce the noise exposure enough by using other methods

  • Ensure that where hearing protection is provided it is used

  • Ensure any other controls are properly used

  • Make sure the legal limits on noise exposure are not exceeded

  • Provide your staff with information, instruction and training

  • Carry out health surveillance where there is a risk to health

  • Review what you are doing if anything changes that may affect the noise exposures where you work

Permits to work

  • Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974<br>Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999<br>Confined Spaces Regulations 1997<br>Electricity at Work Regulations 1989<br>COSHH Regulations 2002 (as amended)<br>Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002<br>Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999<br>Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000<br>LOLER 1998<br>PUWER 1998

  • A senior manager is assigned responsibility to ensure an appropriate permit-to-work system is introduced

  • Appropriate procedures are established and maintained for all work done under the permit-to-work system

  • Arrangements are made for the workforce to be made aware of the permits and systems, and trained in their operation

  • The permit-to-work system is monitored to ensure that it is effective and correctly applied

  • The permit-to-work system is audited and reviewed

  • Copies of permits, or records of their issue, are kept for a specified period to enable auditing or incident investigation

  • Sufficient resources are provided to enable the permit-to-work system to be properly implemented

  • All work requiring a permit-to-work is identified

  • The permit contains a clear description of the work to be done, its location, start time and duration

  • Permits for work activities that may interact or affect other site activity are adequately controlled

  • All other work that would create a hazard if undertaken at the same time is suspended and made safe

  • Limitations on the timing and scope of the work are defined as well as actions to be taken in the event of site emergencies

  • All personnel engaged in the preparation of permits, and responsible for the supervision and performance of the work, are identified and competent

  • Sufficient information is given to oncoming shifts about work for which there is a permit and which has not been completed

  • All personnel (including contractors) working within the permit system have sufficient knowledge and competence to carry out their duties

Risk Assessment

  • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974<br>Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005<br>Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006<br>Confined Spaces Regulations 1997<br>Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005<br>Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002 (as<br>amended)<br>Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 (as<br>amended)<br>Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981<br>Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended)

  • Managers are responsible for ensuring that suitable and sufficient risk assessments are carried out for workplaces, work process or work areas under their control?

  • Managers examine and assess all premises and areas under their control<br>on a regular basis to identify significant risks to the health and safety of their<br>staff and other persons and to take appropriate measures to ensure their<br>health and safety?

  • Have you identified all hazards?

  • Decide who might be harmed and how?

  • Evaluated the risks and decide on precautions?

  • Record the findings and implement them?

  • Review the assessment and update if necessary?

  • Undertake risk assessments for any building or services related<br>works that are planned?

  • Act on the outcome of the risk assessments in order to remove the<br>risk completely or reduce it to an acceptable level?

  • Carry out and record basic assessments of the risks associated with<br>workplace hazards?

  • Recommend suitable control measures?

Work at Height

  • Work at Height Regulations 2005 (as amended)<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

  • All work at height is properly planned and organised?

  • All work at height takes account of weather conditions that could endanger health and safety?

  • Those involved in work at height are trained and competent?

  • The place where work at height is done is safe?

  • Equipment for work at height is appropriately inspected?

  • The risks from fragile surfaces are properly controlled?

  • The risks from falling objects are properly controlled?

Provision and Use of Work Equipment (PUWER)

  • Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998<br>Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

  • You must ensure that the work equipment provided meets the requirements<br>of PUWER

  • Suitable for use, and for the purpose and conditions in which it is<br>used?

  • Maintained in a safe condition for use so that people’s health and safety is not at risk?

  • Inspected in certain circumstances to ensure that it is, and continues to be, safe for use. You must ensure that a competent person carries out the inspections and that a record is kept until the next inspection.

Workplace Safety

  • Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974<br>Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992<br>Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

  • Undertake regular routine health and safety building checks and regular<br>formal recorded health and safety inspections to ensure the following items<br>are provided and maintained to the level required by legislation. Formal<br>recorded health and safety inspections must be carried out quarterly as a<br>minimum:

Health

  • Ventilation

  • Temperatures in indoor workplaces

  • Work in hot or cold environments

  • Lighting

  • Cleanliness and waste materials

  • Room dimensions and space

  • Workstations and seating

Safety

  • Maintenance

  • Floors and traffic routes

  • Falls into dangerous substances

  • Transparent or translucent doors, gates or walls and windows

  • Windows

  • Doors and gates

  • Escalators and moving walkways

Welfare

  • Sanitary conveniences and washing facilities

  • Drinking water

  • Accommodation for clothing and facilities for changing

  • Facilities for rest and to eat meals

Part B – Building Services Statutory, Mandatory & Essential Schedules of Maintenance

Part B – Building Services Statutory, Mandatory & Essential Schedules of Maintenance

  • Gas & Oil fired boilers, appliances heaters & Controls

  • Inspect clean and report any defects on boilers, flues and ancillary equipment

  • Inspect, clean, service, adjust and overhaul boilers and flues, controls and ancillary equipment

  • Arrange thorough examination report by a competent person

  • Annual Landlords CP12 Gas Safety Inspection & Gas Certificate for all gas-fired installations required.

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Pressure vessels

  • The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000, The Pressure Equipment Regulations 1999

  • A Written “Scheme of Examination” by a competent person is mandatory for most pressure systems as a requirement of the Pressure System Safety Regulations 2000. A trained and competent person must examine the pressure system in accordance with the Written Scheme of Examination

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • LPG installations

  • Carry out a visual inspection, testing, calibration and servicing and provide proper records suitable to meet HSE requirements

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Gas detection equipment

  • Refer to BS EN 50073 (BSI 1999) clauses 6.4, 7 & 8 and COGDEM (1999)

  • Date of last inspection (Frequency of maintenance, testing and calibration is to be guided by the manufacturer/supplier)

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Fuel oil storage tanks and pipework

  • Control of Pollution (Oil Storage)(England) Regulations 2001 - These regulations require anyone in England who stores more than 200 litres of oil to provide more secure<br>containment facilities for tanks etc. to prevent oil escaping into the environment.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Sewage plant

  • The Water Resources Act 1991 as amended by The Environment Act 1995 Consent to Discharge section stipulates that ‘a log of maintenance shall be kept for inspection by Agency Officers for a period not less than five years’. The 2002 Building Regulations Part H2 states that ‘regular maintenance and inspection should be carried out in accordance with the manufacturers instructions’ and ‘the owner is legally responsible to ensure that the system does not cause pollution, a health hazard or a nuisance.’

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • L.E.V. Systems

  • All works to be carried out in strict accordance with HSE publications HS(G)37, HS(G)54<br>respectively and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulation 9 (COSHH) 2002. Only competent persons (as defined by the COSHH Regulation 2002) will be authorised to carry out Inspection and Testing.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Lifts and lifting equipment including: Mechanical and Electrical. Passenger & Goods Lifts/Disabled Manual Lifting equipment/hoists/ropes/ slings/etc.

  • The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998 apply to any lifting equipment used at work for lifting or lowering loads whether it is goods or people, including all attachments used for anchoring, fixing or supporting it.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 6 months?

  • Air Supply Handling Systems

  • Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992, Sections 4 & 5

  • Hygiene maintenance - Annually: Conduct hygiene inspection of air handling systems components and internal areas.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Abrasive wheels

  • Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER 98), Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992 (as amended) and HSE’s Guidance Document ‘Safety in the Use of Abrasive Wheels’ (HSG17)

  • Have you informed and adequately trained those involved in the use, mounting, and supervision of persons to mount abrasive wheels?

  • Have you recorded relevant details of the above training and distribution of information, instructions, etc.?

  • Do you have a procedure/system for maintaining your grinding machine?

  • Do you keep records of maintenance/inspections of machines?

  • Do you provide & maintain suitable eye protection/shields/dust protection?

  • Do you provide suitable storage for abrasive wheels?

  • Do you check that safety precautions are being observed?

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Fire suppression equipment

  • Fire extinguishers BS5306 Part 3: 2003

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Fixed electrical installations

  • The electricity at work regulations 1989, BS 7671: 2001 Requirements for electrical installations. IEE Wiring Regulations 17th edition. Electricity at work - safe working practices HSG85 (Second edition) HSE Books 2003 ISBN 0 7176 2164 2 and guidance notes INDG231

  • Date of testing and inspection of fixed electrical installations in areas of the building jointly used by the public.

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Testing and inspection of fixed electrical installations of whole building

  • Statutory inspection within 5 years?

  • Portable electric appliances

  • Maintaining portable and transportable electrical equipment HSG107 (Second edition) HSE Books 2004 ISBN 0 7176 2805 1 and Maintaining portable electrical equipment in offices and other low-risk environments INDG236 HSE Books 1996

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 24 months?

  • Lightning conductors

  • Lightning protection, conductor systems should be visually inspected and tested at regular intervals in accordance with the recommendations of the British Standard 6651-1999.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Emergency lighting

  • British Standard 5266: Part8, 2004 (BS EN 50172:2004) – Emergency Lighting Systems and Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005

  • Daily visual check to ensure that emergency lighting systems are operating correctly and that indicators are working. This will be carried out by the ‘responsible person’ delegated to the task by the Head of Facilities. Any faults should be logged and corrected asap.

  • Monthly – Check all luminaires for signs of damage or disrepair. Briefly test all emergency lights to ensure that they operate in the event of mains electricity supply failure. This will usually be carried out by the ‘responsible person’. Any faults should be logged and corrected asap.

  • 6-monthly – 3rd of battery duration discharge test and inspection.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Annually – A full system inspection and duration/discharge test of the emergency lights should be performed by a ‘competent person’, this being a person with the necessary skills, training and knowledge to perform emergency lighting maintenance and servicing. Compliance with BS5266 should be considered and produced in the emergency lighting certification report. Any faults should be rectified.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Fire alarm systems

  • Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, British Standards BS 5839:2002

  • Weekly – user tests consisting of the operation of one manual call point ensuring that the alarm panel processes the fire signal and operates the alarm sounders, with a record of each test in the company’s log book. This should be combined, for Grade A systems, with periodic inspection and testing of the system by a ‘competent’ person based on a risk assessment.

  • 3-Monthly – Service, test and inspections of control panels etc. Carry out maintenance in accordance with BS5839

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 3 months?

  • 6-Monthly – Full test, inspection and maintenance of the whole system to be conducted and a certificate issued by the specialist contractor

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 6 months?

  • Security / Access systems & CCTV

  • Annually - Carry out a full test, inspection, service and maintenance of system.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Hot & Cold Water Services

Hot water systems

  • Arrange for samples to be taken from hot water calorifiers drain valve, in order to note condition of drain water and test for legionella

  • Check temperatures in flow (>60.0°C) (LBM 66.0°C) and return (>50.0°C) (LBM 55.0°C) pipework at calorifiers. Check water heaters are operating at 60.0°C (LBM 66.0°C)

  • Check water temperature at one minute to see if it has reached >50.0°C (LBM 55.0°C) in the sentinel taps. If sentinel tap is TMV protected then measure the temperature to the TMV at one minute.

  • Visually check on internal surfaces of calorifiers for scale, sediment and sludge.

  • Check representative taps for temperature as above on a rotational basis

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

Cold Water Systems

  • Check cold-water storage tank water temperature remote from the float valve and mains water temperature at the float valve. Note maximum temperatures recorded by fixed max/min thermometers where fitted. (Desired <20.0°C)

  • Check that temperature is below 20.0°C after running the water for up to two minutes at the sentinel taps.

  • Visually inspect cold-water tanks for rust, algae, contamination, stagnation, bio films etc. and carry out remedial work where necessary.

  • Check all cold water taps (as for sentinel) for temperature (desired <20.0°C) on a rotational basis.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 6 months?

Showerheads

  • Dismantle, clean, descale and disinfect showerheads and hoses

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 3 months?

Little Used Outlets

  • Flush through and purge to drain immediately before use, without release of aerosols

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within the last 7 days?

Legionella sampling

  • A specialist contractor is to take samples from all risk assessment identified high risk locations for analysis by an accredited laboratory

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within the last 12 months?

TMV’s, Mixing valves and Thermoscopic taps

  • Conduct a fail-safe test on every installation. Ensure water from outlets is controlled to <41.0°C.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within the last 12 months?

  • General Repairs to Building Fabric – Internal & External

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Intruder alarm systems

  • Carry out a full test, inspection, service and maintenance of the system

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Kitchen Extract/Ventilation systems

  • Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 & ACOP L56: These Regulations will apply to gas appliances found in most catering premises. Some gas appliances will be a type (known as type B) that requires a flue to comply with the Regulations. Where extraction is provided to serve that purpose it will be considered to be a flue and will require an appropriate interlocking system connecting the airflow to the gas supply.

  • Gas interlocking system

  • Ductwork clean

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Emergency call systems

  • Specialist contractor to work to the following: BS EN 60950-1:2006 Information technology equipment – safety, BS7671: 2001 Requirements for Electrical Installations, IEE Wiring Regulations. 17TH Edition HS (G) 107 Maintaining portable electrical equipment, BS EN 61000 Electromagnetic Compatibility, Electromagnetic Compatibility Amendment Regulation 1995, Electricity at Work Regulation 1989

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 6 months?

  • Automatic Doors

  • BS 7036:1996 is the code of practice for safety at powered doors for pedestrian use. It is published in five parts, part one is general, parts two to five are specific to door type. It is not a mandatory requirement to adhere to its recommendation but it is a generally accepted wisdom to do so and most often a specified requirement. Should an action be brought as the result of an incident the standard will certainly be referenced by investigators

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Activity & Play Equipment

  • In House – Monthly: Conduct a visual inspection for integrity, wear, damage, and security and report any defects to the Facilities Team. Decommission items until suitable repairs have been made.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 1 month?

  • Machinery & Dangerous machines

  • The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 and The Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 must be read and strictly adhered to for all workshop equipment and machines used on the premises.

  • Before each use: Conduct a visual inspection for integrity, wear, damage, security, safety and report any defects to the Head of Facilities. Decommission items until suitable repairs have been made

  • Annually – Conduct a safety test and inspection and any specialist servicing and maintenance tasks required.

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • Access equipment – Ladders and Stepladders

  • Working At Height Regulations (WAHR) spells out the need to check and maintain ladders. WAHR are not requiring anything new, but they are clearly stating the general requirements of PUWER to maintain and inspect work equipment (Regulations 5 and 6 (2)).

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

  • All other building services

  • Date of last inspection

  • Statutory inspection within 12 months?

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