SMSTS Core Excercise Drawing 1

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Core Exercises 1 Implementing health and safety legislation Introduction This section contains four core exercises that your trainer will ask you to complete during your course. There are also tasks and projects, to be used where applicable, for exercise completion. Other exercises may be supplemented by the trainer. Exercises are assessed. You must successfully complete and pass all exercises in order to be awarded the certificate. Core exercise 1. Implementing health and safety legislation Aim To enable you to develop ideas about how to define and implement the principles of health, safety and welfare, and how such principles affect the duty holders (client, principal contractor, principal designer, designers, contractors, self-employed, manufacturers and suppliers). Learning objective By participating in this exercise, you should be able to recognise and understand the general duties placed on duty holders under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Briefing Form small groups. Your trainer will designate each group as belonging to a specific category of duty holder under current legislation (for example, client, principal contractors, designers or self-employed). (It is important that one group represents contractors.) Task 1

1.Define and describe the designated category of duty holder you are representing. 2.Identify their general health and safety duties under the relevant legislation. 3.Establish where and with whom the responsibility lies for ensuring that those duties are carried out.

Task 2

1.Re-form in your groups to develop your ideas on ways of measuring and controlling the health and safety performance of your category of duty holder. 2.Carefully analyse the ideas contributed, to establish the measures that your group considers to be valid and realistic when monitoring health and safety performance. 3.Groups should then present their findings to the wider group. Further group-wide discussion should produce useful modifications that the groups can apply to their own proposals.

Your Role in this core exercise and project is an Employer, Principle Designer & Principle Contractor.

Do not attempt to do more than indicated in the above information




Core Exercises 2 Manager and supervisor responsibilities Working first by yourself, prepare a list of the general health and safety responsibilities for managers, supervisors and operatives, before discussing your thoughts with your group. Once everyone has shared their ideas, groups should write down each duty holder’s health and safety responsibilities for selected site operations, relating to the requirements of the task or project provided by your trainer. Aim To enable you to consider the general responsibilities of managers, supervisors and operatives on sites, and to develop these into specific responsibilities for given site conditions and operations. Learning objective By participating in this exercise, you should be able to understand and distinguish between the different levels of responsibility for health and safety on site, with particular reference to managers, supervisors and operatives. Briefing Form small groups. Examine the documents and drawings provided, and, raise any queries that you have about the task. Task

1. Working first by yourself, prepare a list of the general health and safety responsibilities for managers, supervisors and operatives, before discussing your thoughts with your group. 2. Once everyone has shared their ideas, groups should write down each duty holder’s health and safety responsibilities for selected site operations, relating to the requirements of the task or project provided by your trainer.





Core Exercises 3 Site briefing Aim To enable you to combine your knowledge and experience of construction sites with your skills in analysing and writing specific health and safety instructions for a construction operation on site. Learning objective By participating in this exercise, you will develop the skills to be able to provide suitable information and instructions to help protect employees and others from hazards on site. Briefing Form small groups. Within your group you will either select or be allocated a construction process for which you must write the health and safety instructions for the operatives to follow. The construction process may be taken from a real situation or based on one of the construction site drawing tasks or projects. Your trainer will assist you in selecting a suitable process for this exercise. Task

1. Working first by yourself, write a set of instructions to enable operatives to perform the process safely. You should describe, and justify, the means of communication intended to convey the information, and include follow-up procedures to be used to ensure the instructions are acknowledged, understood and observed. You should then discuss your thoughts with your group.

2. Once everyone has shared their ideas, groups should bring together all the contributions to

produce a master safety instruction for their process. This should include explanatory notes on the means of communication and the proposed follow-up processes.

When preparing your material for presentation, you should ensure that your group has produced the following.

1. A sufficiently clear and detailed description of the chosen process, including the location of the process and its precise position on the site.

2. Specific health and safety information and instructions for the chosen process. 3. General safety instructions for the whole area (such as fences, barriers, gates, roadways,

mobile plant, lay-down areas, noise, dust, fumes and specific PPE requirements). 4. The exact means of communication to be used, indicating how, where and by whom the

instructions will be conveyed to the operatives affected. The briefing plan should include all interfaces with other trades and affected parties. The use of additional publications or material provided by outside sources s acceptable.

5. Details of the monitoring procedure that will ensure the instructions will be received, understood, accepted and observed.





Core Exercises 4 Site layout Aim To provide an opportunity for you to use your knowledge, experience and planning skills to plan a construction site layout that will:

A. provide a safe working environment where the risk of injury or health hazard has been eliminated or reduced as far as is reasonably practicable

B. be organisationally sound C. be economical and efficient.

Learning objective A. By participating in this exercise, you should be able to: B. recognise potentially hazardous situations that may exist or develop on site C. provide a better and more efficiently controlled and managed environment, as required by

the general requirements of D. the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, and the specific requirements of the Construction

(Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM) and other relevant health and safety legislation

E. employ forward planning as an essential means of contributing to site health and safety in an economical and environmentally acceptable way

Briefing Form small groups. Examine the documents and drawings provided, and raise any queries that you have about the task. Task

1. Each group must use a construction site drawing and project to prepare a proposal for a typical site set-up. Consider the following.

• The location, size and details of welfare and first-aid provision.

• Access to, from and around the site for workers, visitors and vehicles, including site parking.

• The control use and storage of mobile plant and vehicles on site. • The selection, control and use of plant and equipment, including scaffolding and hoists. • The delivery, handling, storage and transport of materials, including highly flammable

liquids and liquefied petroleum gases, across, and to and from, the site.

• Fire prevention, fire precautions and other emergency arrangements, including escape routes and assembly points.

• The control of nuisance to neighbours (for example, noise, vibration, mud and dust). • The location, size and details of waste storage and disposal. • The appreciation and management of proximity hazards and local features. • The distribution, control and use of new and existing services

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2. Each group should provide a written statement outlining the legislative, organisational, economic and environmental reasons for the decisions taken.

3. Each group should then prepare a list of the potential health and safety hazards that are eliminated or controlled by their proposals.

4. Groups should present and explain their proposals to the wider group.

5. Analyse all presentations as a group to determine their effectiveness in meeting the aims and

objectives of the exercise.





Project Brief Construction Site Drawing 1

1. Located on the outskirts of the town of Brambley, the existing offices are of a single-storey construction with a 9 m ridge height. Around 25 employees use the offices between 09:00 and 17:00.

2. An existing entrance, off Holt Arch Road, serves the existing offices and car park. The car park

accommodates 16 cars in total, and includes two disabled spaces.

3. The redundant, two-storey factory building is brick built. It has an asbestos-cement sheet roof with a 10.5 m ridge height. The building was constructed in the 1950s and used as a steel mill until 2006.

4. There is no health and safety file for the factory building.

5. The ground around the redundant factory building is contaminated with cadmium and lead. A 30 m2 area to the south contains Japanese knotweed.

6. A public footpath runs alongside the site. On average, about 170 people (mainly commuters)

use the footpath on weekdays, and about 120 people use it at weekends.

7. A river runs north to south, diagonally across the site. It can only be accessed by pleasure cruisers as the Brambley road bridge only offers 3 m clearance (underside to water surface).

8. A hedge runs along the side of the existing office building and car park. It has been in place

for 45 years but a substantial amount of it will need to be removed as it will interfere with access for demolition or construction works. The hedge to the south of the site, bordering Brambley Road, is 10 years old.

9. The beech tree in the area of the new car park entrance is around 15 years old.

10. A scheduled monument (Bronze Age standing stones) is to the north of the site.

11. The Riverside Café to the west of the site is open seven days a week, between 09:00 and 14:00.

The café can accommodate around 30 people at any one time.

12. The national speed limit for a single-carriageway road applies on Brambley Road. The speed limit on all other nearby roads is 30 mph.

13. There are open land drains, operated by the local internal drainage board (IDB), to the north

and east of the park area. The drains run to a managed surface-water system. Access for drain maintenance by the IDB must be available at all times.

14. Brambley Road is busy in the morning and late afternoon, due to work traffic using the only

access road to South Industrial Estate.

15. There is an airport boundary approximately 1,700 m to the south west of the existing office




Project Brief Construction Site Drawing 1

Demolition of a two-storey, brick-built, 1950s redundant factory building. Construction of a four-storey office block (steel frame, piled foundations) with the proposed new entrance from Brambley Road and construction of the proposed offices’ car park, comprising 118 parking spaces in total, including 10 disabled spaces (five on the northern side and five on the western side). In addition, the client would like to undertake the following tasks.

A. Repair the fence to the west of the riverside café. Riverside café is a fully operation business.

B. Installation of 20 photovoltaic solar panels to the existing single-story office building. The building roof is at 30 degrees, materials are trapezoidal box-profile steel sheeting (0.7 mm thick)




Assumptions

1. The existing office building will remain in occupation throughout the works

2. Initial access must be via the existing entrance.

3. The existing hedge running north to south will need to be removed.

4. The existing hedge running east to west will need to be removed near the proposed new entrance.

5. The beech tree to the eastern side of the proposed new entrance will need to be removed.

6. The ground around the redundant factory building is contaminated with cadmium and lead,

which needs to be dealt with.

7. The two-storey, brick-built, 1950s redundant factory building consist of asbestos cement roofing material

8. The two-story brick-built 1950 An area to the south of the redundant factory building contains

an invasive species, Japanese knotweed.

9. The existing entrance will need to be closed off and the pavement extended.

10. The 600 mm-high boundary-wall will need to be reinstated across the existing entrance.

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