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Managing Safely – Assessment 1

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1. Insert in the space provided the most appropriate option from the three listed below:

financial moral legal

Reducing the likelihood of fines and personal injury claims are legal
reasons to manage safely.

2. Think about a manager’s responsibilities and accountabilities for safety in the

workplace. Which statement is correct? (Select one answer only from the
following.)

a) a manager is not accountable for assessing and managing the risks

the employee is exposed to

b) a manager can delegate responsibility but cannot give away their

accountability √

c) a manager is not responsible for making decisions about local safety

practice

d) a manager can delegate accountability but cannot give away their

responsibility

3. What is meant by the term hazard? (Select one answer only from the following.)

a) anything that could cause offence

b) the chance that something will happen

c) anything that has the potential to cause harm √

d) the outcome of an accident

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4. Insert in the space provided the most appropriate option from the three listed below.

people anything failure

A risk assessment is a careful examination of anything

in the work environment that could cause injury or ill health.

5. Think about the definitions of the terms likelihood and consequence. Which two of the
following are true? (Put a ✔ opposite the two statements you think are correct.)

a) consequence is a measure of uncertainty about the hazardous event

b) likelihood is the chance that a hazardous event will occur ✔

c) consequence is the outcome of the hazardous event ✔

d) likelihood is the expected level of harm from the hazardous event

6. Think about the first three steps to risk assessment. Which statement is correct?
(Select one answer only from the following.)

a) estimate the risk, review your findings, evaluate the risk

b) identify the hazards, record your findings, review your findings

c) identify the hazards, estimate the risk, evaluate the risk ✔

d) evaluate the risk, review your findings, record your findings

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7. Think about what a risk assessment enables you to do. Which two of the following are
true? (Put a ✔ opposite the two statements you think are correct.)

a) meet your legal requirements ✔

b) get information needed for insurance claims

c) gather information about accidents and ill health

d) demonstrate good business practice and improve ✔

business performance

8. List two of the four considerations when reducing risk so far as is

reasonably practicable:

The severity of the hazard

The cost and effort involved in controlling the

risk

9. Insert in the space provided the most appropriate option from the three listed below:

foreseeable residual manageable

The level of risk that is left after control measures have been introduced
is called residual risk.

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10. List three of the five controls from the hierarchy of risk control:

Elimination

Substitution

Engineering controls

11. Think about the term ‘reasonably foreseeable’ risk. Which one of the following is
true? (Put a ✔ opposite the one statement you think is correct.)

a) it means that employers are responsible for every possible risk in

the workplace

b) employers are always responsible for risks that are not

reasonably foreseeable

c) it is a risk that a reasonable person could predict ✔

d) it is a risk that no-one would ever be able to predict

12. Insert in the spaces provided the most appropriate option from the five listed below:

scientific managerial public industry expert

The three knowledge tests to apply to determine reasonably foreseeable risk are common
knowledge, expert knowledge and
industry knowledge.

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13. Think about the consequences of not working within the law. Put a ✔ opposite
the possible outcomes that you think are correct. (Select two answers only
from the following.)

a) paying worker compensation ✔

b) being audited

c) imprisonment ✔

d) no action taken on a first offence

14. Look at the incomplete diagram of the health and safety management system (shown
below). Insert into each of the four spaces the number of the most appropriate label
from the four listed.

1. leadership 2. policy 3. check 4. review performance

policy

leadership
mp
m

review
performance

check

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15. Insert in the space provided the most appropriate option from the three listed below.

Leadership Planning Reviewing

Leadership is an essential part of a health and safety management

system because attitudes to safety and health are determined by top management.

16. Think about the key benefits for you and your organisation of introducing a health and
safety management system. Which two of the following are true? (Put a ✔ opposite
the two statements you think are correct.)

a) it enables improved management of health and safety risks ✔

b) it avoids the legal requirement for a written health and safety

policy

c) it provides the business with a competitive edge ✔

d) it removes the necessity for external inspections and audits

17. Hazards generally fall into six broad groups. Give two examples below:

Chemical hazards

Biological hazards

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18. Think about stress in the workplace. Which two of the following are
true? (Put a ✔ opposite the two statements you think are correct.)

a) tiredness is a physiological effect of stress ✔

b) stress can be caused by not having enough work to do ✔

c) an emotional effect of stress is aching neck and shoulder muscles

d) a work factor that can create stress is financial worries

19. Which two of the following are true? (Put a ✔ opposite the two statements
you think are correct.)

a) footwear needs to be suitable for the work environment and can ✔

play a key part in preventing slips and trips

b) hazardous substances are the most common cause of injuries

at work

c) guarding offers a viable solution for mechanical hazards ✔

d) the main type of harm from electricity is electrical burns

20. Insert in the spaces provided the most appropriate option from the four listed below.

incident accident event condition

An incident can be described as an undesired event

that has caused or could have caused damage, death, injury or ill health.

21. Insert in the space provided the most appropriate option from the three listed below:

event accident occurrence

An accident can be described as an incident which results in injury to

someone or damage to property.

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22. Insert in the spaces provided the most appropriate option from the five listed below:

Root Obvious Underlying Immediate Effective

Immediate causes are unsafe actions or lack of action and unsafe conditions.
Underlying causes are factors that allow the unsafe actions and conditions
to happen.
Root causes are factors that may cause conditions that could result
in an undesirable event.

23. Which of the following are reasons to investigate incidents? (Put a ✔ opposite the two
statements you think are correct.)

a) to improve workers’ morale

b) to prevent business losses from disruption, down-time and lost ✔

business

c) to find out the cost of an accident

d) to identify the cause of the incident to stop it happening again ✔

24. Which of the following are characteristics of a good performance

indicator? (Put a ✔ opposite the two statements you think are correct.)

a) they should be objective and easy to measure ✔

b) they should be relevant to any organisation or group

c) they should include information from other organisations

d) they should be cost-effective in terms of the effort needed to ✔

gather the information

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25. Number the six actions listed below in the order they should be carried out following
an accident:

assemble the investigation team 04

report the accident 02

handle external relations 06

investigate using a structured approach 05

preserve the scene of the accident 03

make sure the injured person is looked after 01

26. When an incident occurs, which of the following two statements are
true? (Put a ✔ opposite the two statements you think are correct.)

a) you must always inform the enforcing authority

b) make sure the family of any injured person is notified ✔

c) if any property has been damaged, make sure to advise the ✔

owner

d) assemble the investigation team, in order to report the incident

27. Think about the three essential principles for good safety and health performance.
Match each of the following statements with the principle it describes. (Put a ✔ in the
correct column opposite each statement.)

Strong and active Worker Assessment

leadership involvement and review

Integration of good safety and ✔

health management systems with
business decisions

Effective ‘upward’ communication ✔

Accessing and following ✔

competent advice

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28. Insert in the space provided the most appropriate option from the three listed below:

Effective Proactive Reactive

Proactive indicators give us information about the current situation

that might impact on future performance.

29. Insert in the spaces provided the most appropriate option from the five listed below:

Evidence Policy Investigating Auditing Measures

Policy aims to find objective Evidence for whether

the current way of managing health and safety meets the organisation’s health and safety
.

30. Insert in the spaces provided the most appropriate option from the four listed below:

Effective Internal Compulsory External

Internal auditing is performed by staff within the

organisation in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the current system.
External auditing is undertaken by a third party to provide
an independent view, usually for the interests of other stakeholders.

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