NEBOSH PSM 2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
100% PASS
Immediate cause - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The unsafe act or unsafe condition that
leads directly to the consequences
Root cause - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An underlying circumstance that allowed the
unsafe condition to exist
,Leading indicators - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Proactive measurements of conditions
that monitor process safety before something goes wrong and to see if
things are operating as intended
Lagging indicators - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Reactive measures that look at failures,
such as the number of injuries, the number of near misses etc
Auditing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Systematic, objective critical evaluation of how
well an organisation's management system is performing by examining
evidence
Hazard - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Something that has the potential to cause harm
Risk - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Likelihood that a hazard will cause harm, in
combination with the severity
Acronym: Failure Mode Effect Analysis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Acronym: FMEA
Risk Priority Number (RPN) equation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Severity x
Occurrence x Detection
Severity X Occurrence X Detection - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Risk Priority Number
(RPN) equation
, HAZID - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A structured, team-based approach to identify
hazards, potential consequences and requirements for risk reduction
HAZID characteristics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔top-down, consequence driven
study
top-down, consequence driven study - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is HAZID bottom up
or top down?
HAZOP - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A very thorough analysis of a process to identify
ways in which the process could deviate from its design intention
HAZOP characteristics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bottom up, cause driven study
Bottom up, cause driven study - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is HAZOP top down or
bottom up?
Event Tree Analysis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Tool used to evaluate the mitigation
measures that will operate after an event
Hierarchy of risk controls - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Inherent safety; elimination;
substitution; engineering controls; administrative controls
Inherent safety; elimination; substitution; engineering controls;
administrative controls - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Order the following into hierarchy of
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
100% PASS
Immediate cause - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The unsafe act or unsafe condition that
leads directly to the consequences
Root cause - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An underlying circumstance that allowed the
unsafe condition to exist
,Leading indicators - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Proactive measurements of conditions
that monitor process safety before something goes wrong and to see if
things are operating as intended
Lagging indicators - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Reactive measures that look at failures,
such as the number of injuries, the number of near misses etc
Auditing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Systematic, objective critical evaluation of how
well an organisation's management system is performing by examining
evidence
Hazard - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Something that has the potential to cause harm
Risk - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Likelihood that a hazard will cause harm, in
combination with the severity
Acronym: Failure Mode Effect Analysis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Acronym: FMEA
Risk Priority Number (RPN) equation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Severity x
Occurrence x Detection
Severity X Occurrence X Detection - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Risk Priority Number
(RPN) equation
, HAZID - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A structured, team-based approach to identify
hazards, potential consequences and requirements for risk reduction
HAZID characteristics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔top-down, consequence driven
study
top-down, consequence driven study - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is HAZID bottom up
or top down?
HAZOP - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A very thorough analysis of a process to identify
ways in which the process could deviate from its design intention
HAZOP characteristics - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bottom up, cause driven study
Bottom up, cause driven study - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Is HAZOP top down or
bottom up?
Event Tree Analysis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Tool used to evaluate the mitigation
measures that will operate after an event
Hierarchy of risk controls - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Inherent safety; elimination;
substitution; engineering controls; administrative controls
Inherent safety; elimination; substitution; engineering controls;
administrative controls - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Order the following into hierarchy of
3
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2026. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
