NEBOSH NCC1 CORE MAIN ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Minimising Manual Handling Risks - Individual - ✔✔* Training, instruction,
information and supervision
* Employees should understand the importance of:
- design of tasks, including workplace layout
- recognising different types of loads and assessing the weight and balance of loads to
decide which loads can be handled alone and which should be team-handled
- safe lifting and handling techniques
- correct use of PPE
- correct use of mechanical aids
* Design characteristics of handling tasks and use of mechanical equipment can greatly
improve manual handling on construction sites
✔✔Minimising Manual Handling Risks - Load - ✔✔When assessing a load, the following
aspects should be considered:
- weight and size
- making the load easier to grasp
- making the load more stable and rigid
- making the load less damaging to hold
- markings
✔✔Minimising Manual Handling Risks - Working Environment - ✔✔Conditions in which
manual handling is carried out should be assessed, with consideration given to:
- workplace design
- floor conditions
- changes of level
- atmospheric conditions
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
✔✔Lifting and Moving Equipment - ✔✔Lifting and moving devices fall into two
categories:
Mechanically-operated e.g. forklift trucks; telehandlers; dumper trucks; excavators; lifts
and hoists; conveyors; and mobile and tower cranes
, Manually-operated e.g. wheelbarrows; sack trucks and pallet trucks
✔✔General hazards associated with mechanical lifting devices - ✔✔Mechanical failure
Overloading
Collision with pedestrians, other vehicles or structures
Falls of materials or persons
Noise
Contact with moving parts or crushing hazards
Smoke, dust, fumes from the exhaust gases
Fire and/or explosion when refuelling
✔✔Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) - ✔✔Lifting
equipment:
- Sufficiently strong , stable and suitable for the proposed use
- Positioned or installed to prevent risk of injury
- Visibly marked with appropriate information
- Planned, supervised and carried out in a safe manner by competent persons
- Lifting people: marked accordingly; safe for purpose
✔✔LOLER testing and inspecting requirements - ✔✔Inspected on installation
Regular visual inspection (weekly or daily)
Examined every 6mths if used for lifting people
Examined every 12mths for all other lifting equipment
Competent person to conduct all examinations
Record of inspections and examinations
Examination report to employer and of defect could cause imminent or serious danger,
report to HSE
✔✔Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) requires: -
✔✔Suitability of work equipment
Conformity of relevant standards (CE Mark)
Work equipment presenting specific risks should only be used by competent and trained
persons
Information, instruction, and training
Dangerous parts of machinery - guarded using hierarchy
Checks and Maintenance
Examination and inspection
Operations and emergency controls
Environment
User responsibility
Markings
✔✔Work Equipment definition - ✔✔Work equipment is defined as:
"any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work (whether
exclusively or not)"
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Minimising Manual Handling Risks - Individual - ✔✔* Training, instruction,
information and supervision
* Employees should understand the importance of:
- design of tasks, including workplace layout
- recognising different types of loads and assessing the weight and balance of loads to
decide which loads can be handled alone and which should be team-handled
- safe lifting and handling techniques
- correct use of PPE
- correct use of mechanical aids
* Design characteristics of handling tasks and use of mechanical equipment can greatly
improve manual handling on construction sites
✔✔Minimising Manual Handling Risks - Load - ✔✔When assessing a load, the following
aspects should be considered:
- weight and size
- making the load easier to grasp
- making the load more stable and rigid
- making the load less damaging to hold
- markings
✔✔Minimising Manual Handling Risks - Working Environment - ✔✔Conditions in which
manual handling is carried out should be assessed, with consideration given to:
- workplace design
- floor conditions
- changes of level
- atmospheric conditions
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
✔✔Lifting and Moving Equipment - ✔✔Lifting and moving devices fall into two
categories:
Mechanically-operated e.g. forklift trucks; telehandlers; dumper trucks; excavators; lifts
and hoists; conveyors; and mobile and tower cranes
, Manually-operated e.g. wheelbarrows; sack trucks and pallet trucks
✔✔General hazards associated with mechanical lifting devices - ✔✔Mechanical failure
Overloading
Collision with pedestrians, other vehicles or structures
Falls of materials or persons
Noise
Contact with moving parts or crushing hazards
Smoke, dust, fumes from the exhaust gases
Fire and/or explosion when refuelling
✔✔Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) - ✔✔Lifting
equipment:
- Sufficiently strong , stable and suitable for the proposed use
- Positioned or installed to prevent risk of injury
- Visibly marked with appropriate information
- Planned, supervised and carried out in a safe manner by competent persons
- Lifting people: marked accordingly; safe for purpose
✔✔LOLER testing and inspecting requirements - ✔✔Inspected on installation
Regular visual inspection (weekly or daily)
Examined every 6mths if used for lifting people
Examined every 12mths for all other lifting equipment
Competent person to conduct all examinations
Record of inspections and examinations
Examination report to employer and of defect could cause imminent or serious danger,
report to HSE
✔✔Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) requires: -
✔✔Suitability of work equipment
Conformity of relevant standards (CE Mark)
Work equipment presenting specific risks should only be used by competent and trained
persons
Information, instruction, and training
Dangerous parts of machinery - guarded using hierarchy
Checks and Maintenance
Examination and inspection
Operations and emergency controls
Environment
User responsibility
Markings
✔✔Work Equipment definition - ✔✔Work equipment is defined as:
"any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work (whether
exclusively or not)"
