Week 9 H&S quiz

What are the five steps to writing a risk assessment?

• Identify hazards

• Review the risk assessment regularly

• Record what you have identified and decided to do about it

• Assess the risks and take action

• Decide who might be harmed, and how

Name the UK Fire safety law for fire safety in the work place

• Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

• Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

• The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005

• DSE Regulations 1992

You spilled a liquid, what should you do?

• Clean it up immediately

• Wait for the cleaner

• Cover it up

• Ignore it and move on

What does RIDDOR stand for?

• Recording of Dangerous Disinfectants Order of Regulations

• Rigorous Incidents Diseases, Death Organisational Regulations

• Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations

Which of the following is a bad example of proper workplace cleanliness?

• Providing warning signs for wet floors.

• Cleaning and organizing passageways, service rooms, storerooms and places of employment.

• Maintaining drainage, false floors, mats, platforms or dry standing places where there are wet or oily processes.

• Keeping equipment on stairways where they can be easily located.

What must an employer regularly carry out to minimize danger in the workplace?

• Breaks.
• Risk Assessments.
• Meetings.
• Cups of tea/coffee.

PUWER regulations covers the safe use of?

• Scaffolding

• Chemicals

• Power tools and machinery

• Site facilities

Which of the following best describes 'accidents'?

• they are usually preventable

• they cannot be avoided

• they are completely unpredictable

• they only happen to people who deserve them

What does HSE stand for?

• Health and Safe Environment

• Healthier and Safer Environment

• Health and Safety Executive

• Health and Safe Executive

Which of the following is a type of respiratory equipment?

• Ear defenders
• Steel toecaps
• Dust mask
• Goggles