Unit IGC 1: Management of International Health and Safety

Important Questions

1 (a). Give the meaning of the term ‘permit to work’.

(b). Key element of permit to work system?
(c). Identify THREE types of activity that may require a permit to work, and Outline the reasons
why in EACH case.

2. (a) An organization is required to introduce arrangement for health & safety inspection.
(i) Give the meaning of the term “health & safety inspection”?
(ii) Identify factors to consider when making these arrangements.
(a) Outline how the findings in an inspection report might be communicated in a way that is
effective and persuades senior management to take action.

3. Identify factors that could cause the safety culture within an organization to deteriorate.

4. Identify FOUR categories of workplace safety signs and give an example of each.

5. a. Give the meaning of the term health & safety audit.

b. outline the issues that need to be considered at the planning stage of an audit.
c. identify TWO methods of gathering information during an audit.

6. a. outline why it is important for an organization to develop and maintain emergency

procedures.

b. when developing emergency procedures outline why the arrangement for contacting the
emergency and rescue services need to be included .

7. Outline the circumstances that may require a health and safety policy to be reviewed.

8. a worker has been seriously injured in an accident at work.

Outline the immediate and longer term action that should be taken.

9. A serious accident has taken place and a number of workers have been injured.
a. identify possible costs that the organization may incur resulting from this accident.
b. identify action that an enforcement agency may take following this accident.

10. Give the meaning of the following terms:

a. Health
b. Safety
c. Welfare
d. Environment protection

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11. a. give the meaning of the term “safe system of work”.

b. Using a practical example, outing what is meant by the following types of control within a
safe system of work.
(i) Technical
(ii) Behavioural
(iii) Procedural

12. a work in a busy kitchen has notified he employer that she is pregnant.
Outline factors that the employers should consider when undertaking a specific risk assessment
for this worker.

13 (a). Outline the role of workplace health and safety inspection?

(b). Give TWO strengths of using a checklist when carrying out an inspection.
(c). Give TWO weakness of using a checklist when carrying out an inspection.

14. Two organizations share the same worksite?

Outline how the organizations could work together to help ensure the workplace is safe and
healthy.

15. Give reasons why PPE should be considered only after other control measures or state the
limitations of PPE.

16. Outline the typical content of the health and safety arrangements section of a health and
safety policy.

17 (a). Outline, why it is important for an organization to set health and safety targets.
(b). Identify health and safety targets that an organization could set.

18. Outline the main H & S issues to be included in an induction training program for
employees?

19 (a). Outline why an organization should have a system for the internal reporting and
recording of accidents in the workplace.
(b). Identify why workers might not report accidents at work.

20.(a) Identify TWO main purposes of first-aid treatment.

(b) Outline factors to be considered when carrying out an assessment of first aid requirements
in a workplace.

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21. State the circumstances that may give rise to a need for a health & safety policy to be
reviewed?

22. An employer has a common low duty of care for the health, safety & welfare of their
employees?

23 Identify factors to be considered to help reduce the risks to workers required to work
alone.

24. A worker has been seriously injured after being struck by a reversing vehicle in a loading
bay.

(a) Give FOUR reasons why the accident should be investigated.

(b) Outline information that should be included in the investigation report.
(c) Outline:
(I) FOUR possible immediate causes.
(ii) FOUR possible underlying (root) causes of the accident.

25. With respect to undertaking general risk assessments on activities within a workplace:
(a) Outline the key stages of the risk assessment process, and identify the issues that would
need to be considered at EACH stage.
(b) Explain the criteria which must be met for the risk assessment to be ‘suitable and
sufficient’.
(c) Outline factors that employer should take into account when selecting individuals to assist
in carrying out the required risk assessment.
(d) Outline the reasons for reviewing Risk Assessment?

26. Outline reasons for promoting and maintaining good standards of health and safety in the
workplace.

27. Give the meaning of the term ‘Hierarchy of control’.

28. Identify the three main sections of an organization’s health and safety policy and outline the
purpose of EACH.

29. Outline circumstances that would require a health and safety policy to be reviewed.

30. Outline the various methods for communicating the contents of health & safety policy to
workforce?

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31. Outline factors that should be considered when assessing the health and safety
competence of a contractor.

32. Two organizations share the same worksite.

Outline how the organizations could work together to help ensure the workplace is safe and
healthy.

33. a) Give the meaning of the term ‘perception’

b) Identify ways in which workers perceptions of hazards in the workplace might be improved.

34. 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.

35. Outline the various methods for communicating the contents of health & safety policy to
workforce?

36. An organization needs to review its provision of health and safety training for its workers.
a.) Identify factors that should be considered when developing a program of health and safety
training.
b.) Identify measures that might be used to assess the effectiveness of health and safety
training.

37. a. Identify FOUR types of emergency that would require an organization to have an
emergency procedure.
b. Outline why it is important to develop emergency procedures in the workplace.
c. Outline why visitors to a workplace should be informed of an organization’s emergency
procedures.

38. (a) Identify TWO examples of confined space that may be found within a workplace.
(b) Describe the main factors to consider when preparing a safe system of work for entry into
confined space.

39. A machine has leaked hot liquid into a work area. No one has been injured.
Outline reasons why it is important for an organization to investigate ‘near miss’ incidents.

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40. a.) Outline the meaning of the terms:

i) ‘Active’ (proactive) monitoring;
ii) ‘Reactive’ monitoring
b.)Outline FOUR active (proactive) and FOUR reactive monitoring methods that can be used
when assessing an organization’s health and safety performance.

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