Working in occupied premises

Third party exposure to falls and falling objects 

Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and Memorandum HS(R)25 Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 

Will include exchange of information with owner/occupier to ensure full reciprocal knowledge of existing hazards, nature of the work, and work hazards, and demarcation of areas of responsibility. Access equipment and arrangements must ensure maximum safety of workers, occupants and third parties including the public. Details of existing services required before work begins. COSHH and noise assessments required for materials and tools to be used. 

Physical barriers and notices will be required to isolate and give warning of work to occupants and members of the public. Fire exit routes must be kept free from obstruction, or alternative routes must be found and signed. Any hot work must be fully controlled, with extinguishers to hand. 

Where work at height is involved, debris netting, fans or other suitable measures to protect the public must be installed where assessment of the risk requires. Flammable and hazardous materials must be identified in advance and correctly controlled and stored. 

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Work in occupied premises should be subject to additional risk assessment to make sure that third party interests are observed and appropriate information is given to them. 

When construction work is being undertaken on occupied premises, such as a retail store or an office block, certain important health and safety matters would need to be discussed and agreed with store or office management. These matters would include the location and isolation of the construction working areas, supervision of the work, procedures for the evacuation of the premises in the event of an emergency, the use of welfare and canteen facilities, the protection of the occupier s employees and procedures for handing back... 

Occupied premises - again this issue is covered in detail in Chapter 7. Where work is to be undertaken in or near occupied premises, such as hospitals, schools, office blocks, factories, shops or houses, it may be necessary to completely or partially... 

The Regulations impose responsibilities on clients who are acting in connection with a trade or business. They do not cover house occupiers carrying out work on domestic premises or instructing an architect or other professional. 

Typically, on-site induction takes between 30 minutes and 2 hours, depending on the involvement of the client and other employers in joint-occupied premises. Induction training should be recorded in a log or register, and may be connected to the issue of identity badges. Newcomers to projects should receive induction before they start work, as... 

This was developed by Linus Pauling in 1931 and was the first quantum-based model of bonding. It is based on the premise that if the atomic s, p, and d orbitals occupied by the valence electrons of adjacent atoms are combined in a suitable way, the hybrid orbitals that result will have the character and directional properties that are consistent with the bonding pattern in the molecule. The rules for bringing about these combinations turn out to be remarkably simple, so once they were worked out it became possible to use this model to predict the bonding behavior in a wide variety of molecules. The hybrid orbital model is most usefully applied to the p-block elements the first two rows of the periodic table, and is especially important in organic chemistry see Page 37. 

In addition, the Occupiers Liability Acts, 1957 and 1984, impose a duty of care on the occupier of premises—that is the person or body in control of the premises—for the safety of visitors. This requires measures to be taken to ensure that lawful visitors are safe when using the premises for the agreed purpose of the visit. Teachers must thus ensure that they and the pupils, as visitors, work within a safe environment during their lessons and other sanctioned activities by reporting any faults to the head teacher so that the governing body or LEA, as occupiers , may take action. 

This duty must also be checked against yom relevant legislation but, generalfy, an occupier or a person who has control of non-domestic premises in which people work must ensure ... 

A licence is not needed for people who carry out work with asbestos coating or asbestos insulation or asbestos insulating board in premises which they occupy, using their own employees. But they must give formal notification of this work to the relevant enforcing authority (see Regulation 5). 

In many cases the employers or occupiers of a building have had little or no input or control over the design of the premises in which they work, therefore basic measures to prevent access to the roof or other areas of the building must be considered. Simple controls such as the inclusion of a dense, thorny hedgerow at the perimeter of the site may assist in preventing access and the environment of the premises may also be enhanced by such an introduction. 

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