Document downloads - Health and safety responsibilities
Available downloads
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Health and safety buying or selling checklist
A list of additional questions that surveyors may ask when buying and/or selling property on behalf of a client.
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Health and safety checklist for initial management inspections
A list of points that might need to be checked during an initial management inspection.
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Asbestos
Published May 2021
Effective from 1 August 2021
Reissued October 2022
The widespread use of asbestos has implications for property professionals working in all sectors and can impact on all stages of a building’s life cycle.
This professional standard contains a comprehensive overview of the legislation and industry guidance that govern the complex subject of asbestos. It provides guidance on the dangers asbestos poses to health and businesses, and sets out best practice advice to assist property professionals in complying with the regulations and implementing an effective management plan to ensure that they do not put themselves or others at risk.
The standard is not intended to advise members specially in the undertaking of asbestos surveys. Guidance on such surveys is set out in the HSE publication HSG264 Asbestos: The survey guide.
This document was reissued in October 2022 as a professional standard. It had previously been published in May 2021 as a guidance note. The regulatory requirements remain the same and no material changes have been made to the document. -
Surveying safely
Published November 2018
Effective from February 2019
Reissued July 2023
Appropriate management of health and safety is a requirement for all RICS-regulated firms and RICS members, including property-related businesses. The requirement for such management has been put in place in many countries across the globe and across industry sectors and governmental organisations in order to protect individuals from harm.
This professional standard sets out basic, good practice principles for the management of health and safety for RICS-regulated firms and RICS members. It sets out principles for those engaged in the built environment as property professionals and includes health and safety responsibilities:
• at a corporate level (whether the RICS-regulated firm is large or small) and
• at the level of the individual RICS member.
It covers property-related businesses and identifies the moral, ethical and practical issues that confront RICS-regulated firms and RICS members everywhere, in all the work that they undertake.
This document came into effect on 1 February 2019.
This document was reissued in July 2023 as a professional standard. It had previously been published in November 2018 as a guidance note. The regulatory requirements remain the same and no material changes have been made to the document. -
Sports ground certification (ARCHIVED)
This document has been archived and is available on isurv for information purposes only.
This guidance note will assist practitioners to gain an understanding of the legislative framework by which reasonable levels of safety at sports grounds can be achieved. It will also be useful for people involved in the process, in local authorities and the associated services (e.g. safety officers, event organisers, fire service, ambulance service and the police).
Sports grounds are places where some of the greatest dramas are played out in front of audiences worldwide. It is the duty of sports grounds practitioners to ensure those dramas are limited to the sport and not associated with disaster and loss of life.