Constructions skills 6219 Lv1 Health and safety Lesson 2

Make a list of when you feel it is necessary for a company to inform the HSE of a project:

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4. 4.

5. 5.

Identify which roles and responsibilities are true and which are false:

HSE have a responsibility to:

Administer health and safety law. ​ ​ (a)  

Oversee and control health, safety and welfare. ​​ (b)  

Pay for all health and safety on site. ​ (c)  

Visit workplaces to check that people are

complying with the rules. ​ ​ (d)  

Help you to understand what you need to do to

comply with legislation by giving advice.

​ ​ (e)  

• True
• False

HSE have a responsibility to:

Build friendships with site managers. ​ (a)  

Build friendships with site managers. ​ (b)  

Enforce the law if they don’t like a company. ​ (c)  

Administer health and safety law;. ​ (d)  

Oversee and control health, safety and welfare. ​ (e)  

• False
• True

In the table below identify which powers and duties are true and false:

HSE powers and duties:

Serving notices, for example, improvement

(remedy), prohibition (stop work). ​ (a)  

Only giving advice to site managers they get on with. ​ (b)  

Avoiding imminent danger – to seize and destroy. ​ ​ (c)  

Questioning staff. ​ (d)  

Prosecuting any company you do not like. ​ (e)  

• True
• False

HSE powers and duties:

Prosecuting for offences. ​ (a)  

Entering premises to examine and investigate.​ (b)  

Seizing evidence. ​ (c)  

Only storing evidence that can result in a conviction. ​ ​ (d)  

Measuring, recording, etc. ​ (e)  

• True
• False

Health and safety on construction sites is very important. Health and safety is the responsibility of

many people on a construction site. Create a mind map below to show those people who are

responsible for health and safety in construction.

identify which responsibilities are true and which are false:

Employers have a responsibility to:

Provide information, instruction and training for

employees. ​​ (a)  

Provide adequate supervision and safe

systems of work and safe means of access and

egress.​ (b)  

Provide and maintain machinery and

equipment.​ (c)  

Provide safe handling, use and storage of

materials and substances.​ (d)  

Provide lunch to all employees. ​ ​ (e)  

• True
• False

Identify which responsibilities are true and which are false: Employers have a responsablity to

Provide transport to and from work.​ (a)  

Provide necessary personal protective clothing

and equipment.​ (b)  

Provide all staff with a generous bonus. ​ (c)  

Provide risk assessments. ​ (d)  

Provide a pension scheme to all employees. ​ (e)  

• False
• True

Identify which responsibilities are true and which are false:

Employers have a responsibility to:

Produce a written safety policy (when an

employer has five employees or more).​ (a)  

Provide accommodation to all staff​ (b)  

Provide adequate welfare facilities.​ (c)  

Consult with employees over health and safety.​ (d)  

Have in place adequate measures for

emergencies including fire​ (e)  

• True
• False

identify which responsibilities are true and which are false:

Employers have a responsibility to: Provide first aid​ (a)  

Record and report accidents, diseases and

dangerous occurrences.​ (b)  

Protect employees from noise which may

cause hearing loss.​ (c)  

Provide a promotion and increment scheme​ (d)  

​ Provide adequate welfare facilities. ​ (e)  

• True
• False