NEBOSH ACTUAL FINALS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Risk Asessments\n\n\n\nWho should be included when considering people at risk -
✔✔Employees\nMaintenance Staff\nCleaners\nContractors\nVisitors\nMembers of the
public
✔✔Safety Signs\n\n\nThere are 5 classifications - list - ✔✔Prohibition - White
background, black pic, red circle with diagonal cross\nWarning - Yellow background,
black pic\nMandatory - Blue with white pic\nSafe Condition - Green with white pic\nFire
- Red with white pic
✔✔Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992\n \nList the employers
duties to provide (6) - ✔✔Suitable PPE\nCompatible\nStorage available\nInformation,
instruction and training\nEnforced use\nReplace or repair damaged
✔✔PPE\n \nList the Benefits (5)\n \nList the Limitations (7) - ✔✔Benefits\n- Interim
control\n- Only option available\n- Back-up for emergencies\n- Cheap\n- Immediate
protection\n \nLimitations\n- Only protects 1 person\n- Has to fit correctly\n-
Uncomfortable\n- Impairs senses\n- Incompatible with other items\n- People do not like
wearing PPE\n- If it fails worker exposed to risk
✔✔Sources of Law - ✔✔Acts - Full Legal Status\nRegulations - Full Legal
Status\nACoPs - Special / Semi Legal Status\nGuidance - No Legal Status
✔✔HS Law - Employer's 4 Common Law Duties - ✔✔Decided in the case of Wilsons
and Clyde Coal Co Ltd v English (1938)\n \nA Safe place of work\nSafe plant and
equipment\nSafe and competant workers\nAppropriate instruction, information, training
and supervision
✔✔HS Law\n\n\nStructure of 2 types of Law - ✔✔Criminal Courts\n- Magistrates Court
(always heard here 1st)\n- Crown Court\n- Court of Appeal - Criminal div\n- Supreme
Court\n\n\nCivil Court\n- County Court- claims below £50,000\n- High Court - claims
above £50,000\n- Court of Appeal - Civil div\n- Supreme Court
, ✔✔Remember these acts / guidance or references - ✔✔Act\n-Health and Safety at
Work, etc. Act 1974\n-Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007\n-
Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015\nReg\n-The Management of Health
& Safety at Work Reg 1999\n-Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005\n-Contol of
Substances Hazardous to HealthOSHH\n-Control of Noise at Work Reg 2005\n-H&S
(Consultation with Employees) Reg 1996\nPersonal Protective Equi at Work Reg
1992\nConfined Spaces Reg 1997
✔✔The Common Law references - ✔✔Duty of Care\n- Donoghue v Stevenson
(1934)\n\n\nEmployers Duties\n- Wilson and Clyde Coal Company Ltd v English (1938)
✔✔MHSW Regulation 4 Schedule 1\n\n\nGeneral Principles of Prevention - ✔✔Avoid
Risks\nEvalute risks which cannot be avoided\nCombat risks at source\nAdapt work to
suit the individual\nAdapt to tech progress\nReplace dangerous with non or
less\nDevelop coherent overall prevention policy\nPriority to collective protective
measures\nGive appropriate instructions to employees
✔✔Information Sources\n \nList Internal (8)\n \nList External (7) - ✔✔Internal\n-
Accident Records\n- Ill health data / absence\n- Medical Records\n- Risk
assessments\n- Maintenance records and reports\n- Safety rep inspections\n- Audit and
investigation reports\n- Safety Committee meetings\n \nExternal\n- National
Legislation\n- ACoPs\n- Standards - BSI ISO\n- Manufacturers information\n- Trade
associations\n- International bodies - EU - ILO\n- IT sources
✔✔Safe Systems of Work\n\n\n3 Key Elements - ✔✔Formal - doc /
recorded\n\n\nSystematic examination to identify hazards\n\n\nDefines safe methods
✔✔How would you Analyze Tasks, Identify Hazards and Assess risks for Safe Working
Systems\n(6) - ✔✔SREDIM\nSelect task to analyze\nRecord the steps of the
task\nEvaluate the associated risks\nDevelop the safe working method\nImplement the
safe working method\nMonitor to ensure effiveness
✔✔Specified Risks of Working in Confined Spaces (5) - ✔✔Fire or explosion\nLoss of
consciousness or asphyxiation from gas fumes vapour or lack of
oxygen\nDrowning\nAsphyxiation from entrapment in free flowing solid\nLoss of
consciousness from high air temperature
✔✔2 Characteristics of a confined space - ✔✔An enclosed nature\n\n\nOne of more of
the foreseeable specified risks exist
✔✔When would you use a Permit-to-Work system (7) - ✔✔Hot work\nHigh Voltage
electrical systems\nConfined spaces\nWorking on pipelines\nExcavating near buried
services\nWorking at height\nMaintenance work on large or complex machinery
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Risk Asessments\n\n\n\nWho should be included when considering people at risk -
✔✔Employees\nMaintenance Staff\nCleaners\nContractors\nVisitors\nMembers of the
public
✔✔Safety Signs\n\n\nThere are 5 classifications - list - ✔✔Prohibition - White
background, black pic, red circle with diagonal cross\nWarning - Yellow background,
black pic\nMandatory - Blue with white pic\nSafe Condition - Green with white pic\nFire
- Red with white pic
✔✔Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992\n \nList the employers
duties to provide (6) - ✔✔Suitable PPE\nCompatible\nStorage available\nInformation,
instruction and training\nEnforced use\nReplace or repair damaged
✔✔PPE\n \nList the Benefits (5)\n \nList the Limitations (7) - ✔✔Benefits\n- Interim
control\n- Only option available\n- Back-up for emergencies\n- Cheap\n- Immediate
protection\n \nLimitations\n- Only protects 1 person\n- Has to fit correctly\n-
Uncomfortable\n- Impairs senses\n- Incompatible with other items\n- People do not like
wearing PPE\n- If it fails worker exposed to risk
✔✔Sources of Law - ✔✔Acts - Full Legal Status\nRegulations - Full Legal
Status\nACoPs - Special / Semi Legal Status\nGuidance - No Legal Status
✔✔HS Law - Employer's 4 Common Law Duties - ✔✔Decided in the case of Wilsons
and Clyde Coal Co Ltd v English (1938)\n \nA Safe place of work\nSafe plant and
equipment\nSafe and competant workers\nAppropriate instruction, information, training
and supervision
✔✔HS Law\n\n\nStructure of 2 types of Law - ✔✔Criminal Courts\n- Magistrates Court
(always heard here 1st)\n- Crown Court\n- Court of Appeal - Criminal div\n- Supreme
Court\n\n\nCivil Court\n- County Court- claims below £50,000\n- High Court - claims
above £50,000\n- Court of Appeal - Civil div\n- Supreme Court
, ✔✔Remember these acts / guidance or references - ✔✔Act\n-Health and Safety at
Work, etc. Act 1974\n-Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007\n-
Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015\nReg\n-The Management of Health
& Safety at Work Reg 1999\n-Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005\n-Contol of
Substances Hazardous to HealthOSHH\n-Control of Noise at Work Reg 2005\n-H&S
(Consultation with Employees) Reg 1996\nPersonal Protective Equi at Work Reg
1992\nConfined Spaces Reg 1997
✔✔The Common Law references - ✔✔Duty of Care\n- Donoghue v Stevenson
(1934)\n\n\nEmployers Duties\n- Wilson and Clyde Coal Company Ltd v English (1938)
✔✔MHSW Regulation 4 Schedule 1\n\n\nGeneral Principles of Prevention - ✔✔Avoid
Risks\nEvalute risks which cannot be avoided\nCombat risks at source\nAdapt work to
suit the individual\nAdapt to tech progress\nReplace dangerous with non or
less\nDevelop coherent overall prevention policy\nPriority to collective protective
measures\nGive appropriate instructions to employees
✔✔Information Sources\n \nList Internal (8)\n \nList External (7) - ✔✔Internal\n-
Accident Records\n- Ill health data / absence\n- Medical Records\n- Risk
assessments\n- Maintenance records and reports\n- Safety rep inspections\n- Audit and
investigation reports\n- Safety Committee meetings\n \nExternal\n- National
Legislation\n- ACoPs\n- Standards - BSI ISO\n- Manufacturers information\n- Trade
associations\n- International bodies - EU - ILO\n- IT sources
✔✔Safe Systems of Work\n\n\n3 Key Elements - ✔✔Formal - doc /
recorded\n\n\nSystematic examination to identify hazards\n\n\nDefines safe methods
✔✔How would you Analyze Tasks, Identify Hazards and Assess risks for Safe Working
Systems\n(6) - ✔✔SREDIM\nSelect task to analyze\nRecord the steps of the
task\nEvaluate the associated risks\nDevelop the safe working method\nImplement the
safe working method\nMonitor to ensure effiveness
✔✔Specified Risks of Working in Confined Spaces (5) - ✔✔Fire or explosion\nLoss of
consciousness or asphyxiation from gas fumes vapour or lack of
oxygen\nDrowning\nAsphyxiation from entrapment in free flowing solid\nLoss of
consciousness from high air temperature
✔✔2 Characteristics of a confined space - ✔✔An enclosed nature\n\n\nOne of more of
the foreseeable specified risks exist
✔✔When would you use a Permit-to-Work system (7) - ✔✔Hot work\nHigh Voltage
electrical systems\nConfined spaces\nWorking on pipelines\nExcavating near buried
services\nWorking at height\nMaintenance work on large or complex machinery
