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Health & Safety Policy

1a) Outline the purpose of an organization’s health & safety policy

1b) Outline the issues that are typically included in the health & safety arrangement section of a policy

1c) Outline the circumstances that would require a health & safety policy to be reviewed

2a) Outline the general content of the Three section of a health & safety policy and purpose of each

2b) Explain why the health & safety policy should be signed by the most senior person in the
organization, such as a Managing Director or Chief Executive Officer

Risk Assessment

3a) Explain, using an example, the meaning of term ‘risk’ OR Give the meaning of the term “risk” and
give an example of workplace risk and Give the meaning of the term “Hazard” and given an example
of workplace hazard

3b) Outline the key stages of a work place risk assessment process and identify the issues that would
need to be considered at each stage

3c) Outline Three reasons for reviewing risk assessment

4a) Outline the criteria which must be met for the assessment to be “suitable and sufficient”

4b) Identify Four means of hazard identification that may be used in the workplace

5) Outline with examples, the general hierarchy that should be applied in order to control health &
safety risks in the work place

Communication

6a) Identify Four types of health & Safety information that could be displayed on a notice board within a
workplace

6b) Identify how the effectiveness of notice boards as a method of communication health & safety
information can be increased

6c) Give reason why it is important to use a variety of methods to communicate health & safety
information in the work place

7a) Outline how induction training programmes for new workers can help to reduce the number of
accidents in the work place

7b) Identify Four categories of workplace safety sings and give an example of each
Accident

8a) Outline why an organization should have a system for the internal reporting of accidents or
outline Four reasons why accidents should be reported and recorded within a workplace

8b) Identify the reasons why workers might not report accidents at work or outline factors that might
discourage workers from reporting workplace accidents

8c) Outline immediate actions that should be taken following a major injury accident at work

8d) Outline the benefit to an employer of conducting accident investigation

8e) Explain how accident data can be used to improve health & safety performance within an
organization

Responsibilities

9) Outline the heath & safety roles and responsibilities of:


Employer
Directors and Senior Managers
Supervisors
Workers / employees
Person(s) with primary health & safety function eg. Health & safety officer

10) Identify actions an enforcement authority might take if it finds that an employer is not fulfilling its
responsibilities

Visitors & Sub Contractors

11a) Explain why visitors to a work place should be informed of it’s emergency procedure

11b) Give Two reasons why visitors to a workplace might be at greater risk of injury than workers

11c) Identify precautions that could be taken to reduce the risk of injury to visitors to a workplace

Identify four types of emergency that would require an organization to have an emergency procedure

12a) Contractors are carrying out a major building project for an organization. Outline how this
organization could reduce the risk to contractors before the start and during the building project

12b) Outline the factors that should be considered when assessing the health & safety competence of
contractor
Special Groups at Risk

13a) Identify Eight health & safety hazards relevant to the role of a long distance delivery driver

14a) Identify work activities that may present a particular risk to pregnant women at work and give an
example of each type of activity

14b) Outline the action which employer may take when a risk to a new or expectant mother can not
be avoided

15) Hazard & control measure for:


Children
Young Worker
Disabled Worker
Lone Worker

Monitoring

16) Identify the written information that is likely to be examined during a health & safety audit OR
identify documents that could be examined when reviewing an organization’s health & safety
management system

17) Outline the meaning of term ‘active’ & reactive and Identify Four active (pro-active) and Four
reactive means by which an organization can monitor its health & safety performance

18a) Outline the key features of i) a health & safety inspection and Ii) a health & safety audit

18b) Explain how the findings of an audit may be used to improve health & safety performance

19a) A serious accident has occurred. During the investigation it is found that an inspection of the work
site had taken place before the accident
Outline possible reasons why the inspection did not lead to an unsafe situation being corrected.

19b) Outline the role of workplace health & safety inspections.

20a) Give two strengths of using check list when carrying out an inspection

20b) Give two weaknesses of using check list when carrying out an inspection

20c) Outline reasons why an organization should review its health & safety performance

Health & Safety Management System

21) Identify reasons for maintaining good standards of health & Safety in an organization
22) An organization has been found to have inadequate standard of workplace health & safety. Identify
the costs that the organization may incur as a result OR possible costs to an organization resulting from
inadequate health & safety standards

23) Outline the key elements of health & safety management system

Miscellaneous

24a) Give the meaning of the term “permit-to-work”

24b) Identify the Three types of work (activity) that may require a permit-to-work, and give the
reasons why in each case

25a) Identify Two main purpose of first-aid treatment

25b) Outline the factors to be considered when carrying out a risk assessment of first-aid requirement in
a work place

26) Two organization share the same work site, outline how the organizations could work together to
help ensure the workplace is safe and healthy

27) Identify factors relating to individual which might increase the risk to them while at work

28a) Outline why it is important to involve workers in the development of a safe system of work

28b) Outline why it is important to safe system of work to have written procedures

29) Due to its limitation Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) should only be considered after other
control measures. Outline the limitation of using PPE

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