Health and Safety Quiz

What does RIDDOR stand for?

• Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013

• Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Deadly Occurrences Regulations 2013

• Review of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013

You have cut your finger at work while cutting a length of copper pipe. It does not require hospital treatment, but you decide to go home early. Do you:

• Phone the HSE & report the injury

• Phone your insurance company

• Inform your boss

• Write the incident into the accident book

A scaffold collapses onto a busy road, is this a reportable incident to the HSE?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe

Whilst at work you trip & break your ankle resulting in you being off work for 21 days. Does this get reported to the HSE or just the accident book?

• HSE

• Accident book

• Both

You have been using a new cleaning product & your skin breaks out in an itchy rash that gets worse after 2 days following a visit to the doctor you discover you have the skin disease Dermatitis. Will your boss need to report this to the HSE?

• Yes

• No

What do the following signs mean?

• Hazard

• Danger

• Mandatory

• Prohibited

What type of sign is this?

• Hazard

• Safe Condition

• Danger

• Mandatory

• Prohibited

You had an accident at work. How many working days must you be absent from work following an accident before it becomes reportable to the HSE?

• 1 day

• 3 days

• 7 days

• 14 days

• 1 month

What document is completed before workers start a task to reduce the risk of injury?

• Method statement

• Risk assessment

• Work Schedule

• Induction documents

Every workplace must have a HSE Health & Safety law poster.

• True

• False

• Not Sure