NPLQ Practice Test Questions with Verified
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What is NOP
Normal Operation Procedures explains how a swimming pool or leisure facility should be run
Includes pool rules, admission policy, equipment checks, staff communication procedures,
emergency equipment locations
What is a PSOP?
Pool Safety Operating Procedures - required by law written after an assessment and is made
up of two parts (EAP and NOP)
HSE Guidance
Health and Safety Executive recommendations for safety.
Health and Safety Act
Take care of health and safety
Follow training received with work items
COSHH
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health puts in procedures to follow like wearing
protective equipment
PPE
Personal Protection Equipment; items used to help prevent contamination from biohazardous
materials
EAP
, Emergency Action Plan e.g. overcrowding, disorderly behaviour, lack of water clarity,
outbreak of fire, electrical failure, lighting failure
Pool risk assessment
Premises and Utilities
Tasks and Activities
People
Opening checks
Lifeguard equipment
Pool alarm
Closing checks
All customers left
Fire exits
Hazard of inflatable set up
Poor equipment maintenance
Manual handling
Injury
Cleaning Hazards
Spills, inhalation, burn, mixture of chemicals
Types of zones
Shared individual
Max pool users
Correct Answers
What is NOP
Normal Operation Procedures explains how a swimming pool or leisure facility should be run
Includes pool rules, admission policy, equipment checks, staff communication procedures,
emergency equipment locations
What is a PSOP?
Pool Safety Operating Procedures - required by law written after an assessment and is made
up of two parts (EAP and NOP)
HSE Guidance
Health and Safety Executive recommendations for safety.
Health and Safety Act
Take care of health and safety
Follow training received with work items
COSHH
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health puts in procedures to follow like wearing
protective equipment
PPE
Personal Protection Equipment; items used to help prevent contamination from biohazardous
materials
EAP
, Emergency Action Plan e.g. overcrowding, disorderly behaviour, lack of water clarity,
outbreak of fire, electrical failure, lighting failure
Pool risk assessment
Premises and Utilities
Tasks and Activities
People
Opening checks
Lifeguard equipment
Pool alarm
Closing checks
All customers left
Fire exits
Hazard of inflatable set up
Poor equipment maintenance
Manual handling
Injury
Cleaning Hazards
Spills, inhalation, burn, mixture of chemicals
Types of zones
Shared individual
Max pool users
