Health & Safety

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1. The Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 creates duties for?

a) Employers, Employees and Public

b) Employers, Employees and Trespassers
c) Employers, Employees and Others
d) Employers, Employees and Client

2. Who should you report a serious accident to?

a) Your supervisor (employer)

b) Your workmate
c) The police service
d) The ambulance service

3. The responsibility of providing PPE is with?

a) The employee
b) The client
c) The employer
d) The principal contractor

4. What is the result on the body of prolonged exposure to high levels of

noise?

a) You will become impotent

b) You will lose your sense of feeling
c) You will go blind
d) You will go deaf

5. Asbestos can cause fatal diseases by what means?

a) Breathing the dust in

b) Working at height
c) Not wearing gloves
d) Not wearing a hard hat

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6. Work at Height is defined as any place and distance from which a fall
could cause?

a) Dizziness
b) A personal injury
c) A near miss
d) Breathing issues

7. The type of accident that kills most building workers is?

a) Being hit by falling objects

b) Electric Shock
c) Trapped
d) Falls

8. Which types of accident should be recorded in the accident book?

a) Major injuries or death of a person

b) All accidents causing any injury
c) Broken limbs or injuries requiring hospital treatment
d) Accidents are not required to be recoded

9. What does COSHH stand for?

a) Control of Substances Hazardous to Health

b) Control of Scaffold at a Hindering Height
c) Chemicals & Substances Harmful to Health
d) Chemical, Substances and Harmful Hazards

10. While working, you discover material that you think could be asbestos.
What should you do?

a) Clear up any dust and fragments, put them in a bin then carry
on working
b) Dampen the material to prevent further dust being created, then
carry on working
c) Stop work immediately and report your suspicions to your
supervisor
d) Put a 3mm mask on and carry on working

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11. If your hands are very dirty, which of the following should you use to
get them clean?

a) Thinners
b) White spirit
c) Paraffin
d) Soap and water

12. How can you help to prevent accidents?

a) Read site notice boards

b) Know where the first aid kit is kept
c) Report any unsafe conditions
d) Know how to get help quickly

13. Which of the following combinations of PPE is most common on

construction sites?

a) Gloves, Boots, Boiler-suit

b) Boots, Gloves Hardhat
c) Hardhat, Boiler-suit, Gloves
d) Hardhat, Gloves, Boots, Light eye protection

14. If you are provided with a cabin or other facility for eating and drinking
whilst on a break, whose responsibility is it to ensure that it is kept
reasonably tidy when being used?

a) The local council

b) The people who built the facility
c) The office staff
d) Yours

15. As an individual, you could be summoned to court and prosecuted for

not working safely or endangering someone else at work?

a) Only if you turn up to court

b) True
c) Only if you are self employed
d) False

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