Risk Assesment

What is the best way to avoid the potential of someone become trapped in an excavation

• Check the contractor’s method statement

• Review the last excavation inspection record

• Eliminate the need for anyone to go into it

• Go down in a cage suspended from a crane

    What is the first question to ask if work may need to be carried out in a confined space?

• Can it be undertaken by someone else

• Can it be avoided

• Can it be managed by limited the amount of time people are in it

• Can it be controlled with radios or mobile phones

Work in confined space usually needs a risk assessment, a method statement and what other safety document?

• An up to date staff handbook

• A permit to enter

• A written contract for work

• A company health and safety policy

  What do guard-rails around the top of an excavation prevent?

• Materials from falling into the excavation

• People falling into the trench and being injured

• The sides of the trench collapsing

• There is no need for guard-rails

If you see the side supports if an excavation move, what should you do first?

 

• Keep watching to see if they move again

• Make sure that everyone working in the excavation gets out quickly

• Nothing as slight movement is normal

• Move works to another part of the excavation

What is a significant hazard when excavating alongside a building or structure

• Undermining or weakening the foundation of the building

• Noise and vibration

• Ground water entering the excavation

• There is not any hazard

When should you take precautions to prevent people, materials or equipment form falling into an excavation?

• When the excavation is 2m or more deep

• When more than 5 people are working in the excavation

• At all times

• When there is a risk from an underground cable

Following the hierarchy of control, which of the following is the LAST resort for someone’s safety when working at height?

• Safety netting or  airbags

• Safety harness and fall-arrest lanyard

• Mobile elevating work platform

• Mobile access tower

Where are you most likely to come across Asbestos?

• In a house built between 1950 and 1980

• In any building built before the year 2000

• In industrial building built after the year 2000

• Asbestos has now been removed from all buildings

   What illness might a worker develop if they breathe in asbestos dust?

• Headaches

• Throat infections

• Lung diseases

• Dizziness