ACSA NCSO ACTUAL FINALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔(LSE) Identify common purposes for the Regulations and Code of Alberta OH&S
legislation? - ✔✔Assigns specific responsibilities to individuals.
Describes actions to be taken by individuals.
Outlines specific procedures to be followed.
Adopts standards from the organizations.
✔✔(LSE) Describe the obligations of a supervisor under s.4 of the OH&S Act? -
✔✔Ensure they are competent to be supervising every worker under their supervision.
Take all precautions to protect the health and safety of workers they are supervising.
Ensure that workers under their supervision are in compliance with the OH&@ Act, Reg,
and Code.
Ensure workers they are supervising use all hazard controls and required PPE.
Ensure none of the workers under their supervision are subjected to, or participate in,
violence or harassment at the work site.
Advise the workers they are supervising of all known or reasonably foreseeable hazards
to heath and safety in their working area.
Report any unsafe work site conditions (that exist or have existed) to the employer.
Cooperate with others who are exercising their duties under the Act, Reg, and Code
(i.e., JWSHSC and/or HSR)
Comply with the Act, Reg, and Code
✔✔(LSE) Which piece of the Alberta OHS legislation provides information regarding
adopted standards? - ✔✔Code
✔✔(LSE) What are the Three groups that make up a company's Health & Safety team?
- ✔✔Management
Supervisors
Worker
,✔✔(LSE) What are Three types of supervisor safety tasks? - ✔✔Pre-job planning
considerations
Schedule or periodic tasks
Continuous or ongoing tasks
✔✔(LSE) Name a few best practices for daily logbooks? - ✔✔Write entirely in pen so
they cannot be altered
Contain facts of the events that occurred
Leave all pages intact and in place
Draw solid lines from the last filled line to the end of the page
Include items that require follow ups
Include people involved and their particular tasks or role in the event
Cross out errors with a single line and initial
✔✔(LSE) List three advantages of conducting hazard assessment? - ✔✔Bring attention
to the company's immediate safety needs.
Focus on the prevention of incidents.
Help workers to identify hazards related to their work.
Help workers to identify controls required for hazards.
Help workers to prioritize implementation of controls.
✔✔(LSE) Identify the Four contributing factors of hazards at a work site? - ✔✔People
Equipment
Materials
Environment
✔✔(LSE) List the Three advantages of conducting hazard assessments? - ✔✔The
focus is on prevention
Help workers identify controls
Help workers prioritize/implement controls
✔✔(LSE) List the Five steps in the site-specific hazard assessment process in the
correct order? - ✔✔1. Identify the tasks to be performed
2. Identify and risk rank the hazards associated with the tasks
3. Eliminate or control the hazard
4. Communicate hazards and follow controls
5. Repeat when conditions change or work resumes
✔✔(LSE) Explain the difference between a hazards and an outcome? - ✔✔Hazards - is
what needs to be controlled
Outcome - is what happens if a hazard is not controlled
✔✔(LSE) What Two factors do most risk assessment models evaluate? - ✔✔Severity
Probability (likelihood)
, ✔✔(LSE) Identify examples of controls used for each level of the hierarchy of control? -
✔✔Engineering (includes substitution) = Ventilation, guards, insulation.
Administrative = SWP's, company rules, training, meetings, preventative maintenance.
PPE = Gloves, boots, hard hat, glasses, RPE, etc.
Combination.
✔✔(LSE) List the Three components of an inspection program? - ✔✔1. Inspection
Policy
2. Inspection Procedure
3. Proper Forms
✔✔(LSE) State three purposes of conducting an inspection? - ✔✔1. Legislation
compliance
2. Monitor corrective actions
3. Determine causes
✔✔(LSE) Identify three purposes of safety inspection? - ✔✔Identify existing and
potential hazards.
Identify legislation compliance.
Identify company health and safety program compliance.
Determine causes of hazards.
Monitor hazard controls.
Develop and recommend corrective actions.
Gain further understanding of jobs and tasks.
✔✔(LSE) What are the Four steps in the formal inspection process? - ✔✔1. Plan the
inspection
2. Conduct inspection
3. complete report
4. monitor corrective actions
✔✔(LSE) What are Key things to look for during an inspection? - ✔✔1. Critical
equipment Parts
2. Evidence of Structural, functional, ventilation problems
3. Vehicles and Equipment
4. PPE
5. House=keeping
6. Signs and Barricades
7. Emergency response supplies
8. Compliance
✔✔(LSE) Who should be on an inspection team? - ✔✔Worker, Management,
Supervisor
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔(LSE) Identify common purposes for the Regulations and Code of Alberta OH&S
legislation? - ✔✔Assigns specific responsibilities to individuals.
Describes actions to be taken by individuals.
Outlines specific procedures to be followed.
Adopts standards from the organizations.
✔✔(LSE) Describe the obligations of a supervisor under s.4 of the OH&S Act? -
✔✔Ensure they are competent to be supervising every worker under their supervision.
Take all precautions to protect the health and safety of workers they are supervising.
Ensure that workers under their supervision are in compliance with the OH&@ Act, Reg,
and Code.
Ensure workers they are supervising use all hazard controls and required PPE.
Ensure none of the workers under their supervision are subjected to, or participate in,
violence or harassment at the work site.
Advise the workers they are supervising of all known or reasonably foreseeable hazards
to heath and safety in their working area.
Report any unsafe work site conditions (that exist or have existed) to the employer.
Cooperate with others who are exercising their duties under the Act, Reg, and Code
(i.e., JWSHSC and/or HSR)
Comply with the Act, Reg, and Code
✔✔(LSE) Which piece of the Alberta OHS legislation provides information regarding
adopted standards? - ✔✔Code
✔✔(LSE) What are the Three groups that make up a company's Health & Safety team?
- ✔✔Management
Supervisors
Worker
,✔✔(LSE) What are Three types of supervisor safety tasks? - ✔✔Pre-job planning
considerations
Schedule or periodic tasks
Continuous or ongoing tasks
✔✔(LSE) Name a few best practices for daily logbooks? - ✔✔Write entirely in pen so
they cannot be altered
Contain facts of the events that occurred
Leave all pages intact and in place
Draw solid lines from the last filled line to the end of the page
Include items that require follow ups
Include people involved and their particular tasks or role in the event
Cross out errors with a single line and initial
✔✔(LSE) List three advantages of conducting hazard assessment? - ✔✔Bring attention
to the company's immediate safety needs.
Focus on the prevention of incidents.
Help workers to identify hazards related to their work.
Help workers to identify controls required for hazards.
Help workers to prioritize implementation of controls.
✔✔(LSE) Identify the Four contributing factors of hazards at a work site? - ✔✔People
Equipment
Materials
Environment
✔✔(LSE) List the Three advantages of conducting hazard assessments? - ✔✔The
focus is on prevention
Help workers identify controls
Help workers prioritize/implement controls
✔✔(LSE) List the Five steps in the site-specific hazard assessment process in the
correct order? - ✔✔1. Identify the tasks to be performed
2. Identify and risk rank the hazards associated with the tasks
3. Eliminate or control the hazard
4. Communicate hazards and follow controls
5. Repeat when conditions change or work resumes
✔✔(LSE) Explain the difference between a hazards and an outcome? - ✔✔Hazards - is
what needs to be controlled
Outcome - is what happens if a hazard is not controlled
✔✔(LSE) What Two factors do most risk assessment models evaluate? - ✔✔Severity
Probability (likelihood)
, ✔✔(LSE) Identify examples of controls used for each level of the hierarchy of control? -
✔✔Engineering (includes substitution) = Ventilation, guards, insulation.
Administrative = SWP's, company rules, training, meetings, preventative maintenance.
PPE = Gloves, boots, hard hat, glasses, RPE, etc.
Combination.
✔✔(LSE) List the Three components of an inspection program? - ✔✔1. Inspection
Policy
2. Inspection Procedure
3. Proper Forms
✔✔(LSE) State three purposes of conducting an inspection? - ✔✔1. Legislation
compliance
2. Monitor corrective actions
3. Determine causes
✔✔(LSE) Identify three purposes of safety inspection? - ✔✔Identify existing and
potential hazards.
Identify legislation compliance.
Identify company health and safety program compliance.
Determine causes of hazards.
Monitor hazard controls.
Develop and recommend corrective actions.
Gain further understanding of jobs and tasks.
✔✔(LSE) What are the Four steps in the formal inspection process? - ✔✔1. Plan the
inspection
2. Conduct inspection
3. complete report
4. monitor corrective actions
✔✔(LSE) What are Key things to look for during an inspection? - ✔✔1. Critical
equipment Parts
2. Evidence of Structural, functional, ventilation problems
3. Vehicles and Equipment
4. PPE
5. House=keeping
6. Signs and Barricades
7. Emergency response supplies
8. Compliance
✔✔(LSE) Who should be on an inspection team? - ✔✔Worker, Management,
Supervisor
