Health & Safety

Personal safety is vital when working within the built environment. RICS has produced the Guidance Note Surveying Safely to assist reduce death and injury. You can obtain access to the Guidance Note via the University Library using the RICS ISurv Database.

A. Explain the five stages of individual risk assessment that are mandatory when undertaking any inspection of a building or construction site.

B. Your practice has an instruction to prepare a FRAEW report using the guidance in PAS9980-2022. You are therefore considering the tolerable risk to the occupiers of a below 18m residential apartment building with an ETICS 2015 zinc metal cladding system. Your task is to write a concise explanation of the following technical terms to insert in this report: