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Level 2 Diploma in Electrical Installations (Buildings and Structures) Unit 201 Sample questions

201: Health & Safety

Sample questions
Answer guide
There are 40 multiple choice questions. Answer them all, selecting the correct answer out of
the four provided.

1) The responsibility of the employee is to: (L1.1)

a) do as you are told by the employer regardless of danger to yourself
b) correct any dangerous occurrences you discover while working
c) inform your line manager if you discover any dangerous occurrences
d) Employees have no responsibilities under The Health and Safety at Work Etc Act 1974.

2) Which statement is incorrect? (L1.1)

a) The employer needs to assess every work activity and identify risks.
b) The employer’s responsibilities only apply to their direct employees.
c) The employer needs to provide required information for all tasks.
d) The employer needs to provide a safe working environment.

3) Whose primary responsibility lies with protecting the safety and welfare of (L1.1)
visitors to the work premises?
a) Employers
b) Sub-contractors
c) HSE
d) BCO

4) Which of the following legislation is focused on Noise Pollution? (L1.2)

a) The Noise Protection Regulations
b) The Environmental Noise Act
c) The Environmental Noise Protection Act
d) The Control of Noise at Work Regulations

5) The disposal of unwanted electrical equipment falls under which legislation? (L1.2)
a) COSHH Regulations
b) WEEE Regulations
c) PPE Regulations
d) Environmental Protection Act

6) Which of the following environmental legislation is focused on asbestos? (L1.2)

a) Asbestos & COSHH Regulations
b) Pollution Prevention and Control Act
c) Control of Asbestos Act
d) Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations

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7) What must you do first if you discover a fire on a busy building site? (L2.2)
a) Leave the site immediately and report back to headquarters
b) Phone your line manager
c) Raise the alarm
d) Tackle the fire with a blanket

8) Which of the following information do the emergency services not (L2.2)

require when you contact them after an accident?
a) The address and location of the accident
b) The phone number of your employer
c) The nature of the accident
d) Difficulties the emergency services may have getting to the location
of the accident

9) A colleague you are working with receives an electric shock. (L2.1)

Which procedure should be done first?
a) Turn off the electrical supply
b) Run for help
c) Start CPR
d) Phone your employer

10) What course of immediate action should be taken if someone has (L2.2)
suffered a burn?
a) Apply ice to the burn
b) Wrap the burn in a bandage
c) Apply cold water to the burn
d) Leave the burn alone

11) You notice that some of the scaffolding to a building is loose. (L2.4)
Who do you report this to?
a) Your work employees
b) An HSE inspector
c) You trade union representative
d) The building site safety officer

12) Which of the following items are not suitable for recycling? (L2.6)
a) Copper cable
b) Ceramic fuse holders
c) Steel conduit
d) Cardboard

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13) You are asked by your employer to dispose of an unknown liquid. (L2.4)
What should you do?
a) Request advice from an environmental health officer
b) Dispose of it down a drain
c) Dispose of it at your local refuse centre
d) Dispose of it in the building site’s waste bin

14) A fatal accident occurs at work. Who must be informed first? (L2.2)
a) The HSE
b) Your employer
c) The police
d) The persons family

15) Which of the following materials is unlikely to produce land contamination? (L2.5)
a) Machined Timber
b) Turpentine
c) Petrol
d) Oil

16) Under RIDDOR which of the following specified incidents must be reported? (L2.2)
a) Scalding to 5% of the body
b) A splinter in a thumb
c) An foreign object in an eye
d) An amputation

17) While reading a risk assessment for a task you have been instructed to (L3.1)
perform, you identify a hazard which is not recorded on the form. Do you:
a) Add it to the form and continue the task.
b) Report it to your line manager.
c) Ignore it and carry on with the task.
d) Report it to a HSE inspector when they visit the site next.

18) Before deciding if PPE needs to be used : (L3.2)

a) the cost of the PPE should be calculated and decided if it is cheap
enough to warrant its use.
b) check to see if you have any in the site office.
c) the task needs to be reviewed and decided if other procedures will
reduce the risk before using the PPE.
d) identify the length of time the task will take and if it will take under
2 minutes in duration no PPE is required for the task.

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19) The Purpose of PPE is to provide: (L3.3)

a) Collective Protection
b) Direct Protection
c) Personal Protection
d) Indirect Protection

20) The most important item of PPE to wear for drilling into a concert ceiling is: (L3.4)
a) steel toed trainers
b) spats
c) knee pads
d) safety goggles

21) While working with cement, the most appropriate PPE to use is: (L3.4)
a) rubber gloves
b) gauntlet gloves
c) rigger gloves
d) waders

22) What does The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 not (L3.5)
consider to be a minimum requirement?
a) All members of staff are trained as first aiders
b) A suitably stocked first-aid kit
c) An appointed person to take charge of first-aid arrangements
d) Information for employees about first-aid arrangements

23) You injure yourself at work and use the first-aid kit to deal with your (L3.6)
injures. What procedures must you undertake?
a) Restock the first-aid kit within 24 hours
b) Complain to the HSE that you had to deal with the injury yourself
c) Record the injury in the first aid book
d) Inform your line manager to have the kit replenished and to record
the accident in the accident book

24) Which organisation is best suited to provide you with guidance on building (L3.7)
a mobile scaffold tower?
a) IET
b) NICEIC
c) PASMA
d) HASWA

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25) Which organisation is best suited to provide you with guidance on (L3.7)
working with hazardous substances?
a) IET
b) HSE
c) IPAF
d) COSHH

26) When placing signs around a work area, which sign is most suitable to (L3.7)
identify the work area?
a) Warning sign
b) Prohibition sign
c) Mandatory sign
d) First-aid sign

27) Which of the following is not a requirement to check before you start (L3.8)
working on an existing socket outlet in a busy corridor of an office?
a) Perform safe isolation on the socket
b) Request permission to work on the socket
c) Erect barriers and signage
d) Wear appropriate clothing

28) Which extinguisher would be the most suitable to deal with a fire within (L4.6)
an electrical appliance?
a) Foam
b) Water
c) Powdered
d) Chemical

29) When dealing with flammable liquids, a suitable extinguisher to use is the Foam (L4.6)
extinguisher. What colour band does it have?
a) Red
b) Blue
c) Black
d) Cream

30) Which fire extinguisher is most suitable for Class C fires? (L4.6)
a) Water
b) Dry Powder
c) Foam
d) Wet Chemical

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31) Which of the following situations would be classed as a hazard (L4.4)

while working with a power tool?
a) Trailing leads/cables
b) Wearing safety goggles
c) Checking for hidden cables in walls with a cable detector
d) Unplugging the power tool before changing a drill bit

32) Which of the following hazards would you be exposed to while (L4.4)
drilling into a brick wall with a cordless drill?
a) Fire
b) Trailing leads
c) Electric shock
d) Dust inhalation

33) The purpose of a performing a risk assessment is to: (L4.5)

a) inform you how to perform a given task.
b) identify the hazards associated with performing a task.
c) identify the obstacles that stop you performing a task.
d) measure the time taken to perform a task.

34) Where might you find asbestos? (L4.7)

a) In aertex
b) In clay bricks
c) In timber joists
d) In metallic roofing

35) Identify the following GHS hazard pictogram (see image below). (L4.1)

a) Flammable
b) Acute toxicity
c) Serious health hazard
d) Health hazard

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36) Which of the following pictograms is concerned with gas under pressure. (L4.1)

a)

b)

c)

d)

37) Which of the following is defined as a hazard? (L4.2)

a) An activity that could potentially cause you harm
b) An activity that would unlikely cause you harm
c) An activity that may never happen
d) The chance, high or low that a risk may occur

38) You have been asked to change an electrical socket outlet which has not (L4.3)
been safely isolated. Which of the following hazards would be unlikely to happen?
a) Receive electrical burns
b) Receive an electric shock
c) Be exposure to electrical radiation
d) Lose muscle control

39) While working with PVC conduit a solvent glue is used to join the (L4.5)
conduit together. Which of the following must you not do while working
with the glue?
a) Allow it to freeze
b) Mix the glue with water
c) Work in a well-ventilated area
d) Smoke

40) You believe there might be asbestos in the building you are working in. (L4.8)
Which action should you follow?
a) Record it onto the risk assessment for future work and continue working
b) Request the asbestos register from the HSE but continue working until you receive it
c) Stop work and ask your line manager for the risk assessment
d) Ask the builder to remove it while you continue to work
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