RIBA Health and Safety Guide

by Dieter Bentley-Gockmann

To ensure chartered architects are reaching a high standard of health and safety knowledge and the life safety of building users, the RIBA has introduced an online test based on a comprehensive curriculum to test for competency. This guide is designed to improve industry understanding of issues in accordance with CDM Regulations and prepare architects for the health and safety test. It provides practitioners with the required knowledge regarding site safety, hazards and design risk management to discharge their professional services and legal duties competently and safely. The 2nd edition features an update to the content relating to design risk management and statue to reflect the changes proposed by the Act and the Regulations, as well as a review of the relationship between these and the existing regime under the CDM Regulations. It includes a new chapter that sets out some of the detail of duties under the Act and the Regulations, including practical examples of how designer/architects might discharge their duties as designers and lead designers, considering how it compares to existing duties under the CDM Regulations.

264 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2023

Reviews

[Mike Riley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book, it is a very clear narrative that connects relevant Health & Safety information. A good reminder of how each element is linked and connected.

I particularly found the Chapters 5, 7, and 9 excellent as these summarised legislation, the new Building Safety act and Fire Safety.

[David Uhlar · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is required reading for the RIBA health and safety test, to the extent that the latter is basically a retention test of the former.
For a book of 250 pages I learned two things - well three but one of them is about the RIBA.
Parked for the next 4 1/2 years, by which time they will have no doubt found a way to bring the pot to the boil once again.