NEBOSH NCC1 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Fire detection - ✔✔Smoke/fume detectors
Heat detectors
Flame detectors
✔✔Extinguishers - ✔✔All extinguishers coloured red
Water - white lettering - class A fires
Carbon dioxide - black - class A+B
Foam - cream - class A+B
Dry powder - blue - all classes
Halon - green - now very rare
Wet chemical - yellow - class F
✔✔COSHH - ✔✔Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002
✔✔CHIP 4 - ✔✔Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations
2009 - not due to be superseded
✔✔CLP - ✔✔Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation - this will replace CHIP
4 (N.B. this is European Regulation)
✔✔REACH - ✔✔Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals
(European Regulation EC1907/2006)
✔✔Forms of chemical agents - ✔✔Dusts
Fibres
Fumes
Gases
Mists
Vapours
Liquids
✔✔Forms on biological agents - ✔✔Fungi
Bacteria
, Viruses
Blue-green algae
✔✔Chemicals hazardous to health are classified as: - ✔✔Toxic or very toxic
Harmful
Corrosive
Irritant
Carcinogenic
✔✔Routes of entry for hazardous substances - ✔✔Inhalation
Ingestion
Absorption through the skin
Injection
✔✔Five steps to COSHH assessment - ✔✔Gather information about the substance, the
people exposed, and work activities carried out
Evaluate health risks - are current controls adequate
Identify controls and implement them
Record the risk assessment and actions taken
Review and revise
✔✔Factors to consider on COSHH health risks - ✔✔Hazardous nature
Physical form
Quantity
Potential ill-health effects
Duration
Routes of entry
Concentration
Number of people
Control measures
✔✔Sources of information for COSHH - ✔✔Product labels
HSE Guidance note EH40
Manufactures' safety data sheets
✔✔COSHH principles of good practice - ✔✔Design and operate processes to minimise
exposure
Consider routes of exposure
Control exposure
Choose effective control measures
Combine with suitable PPE
Check and review
Inform and train
Ensure does not increase other risks
✔✔Fire detection - ✔✔Smoke/fume detectors
Heat detectors
Flame detectors
✔✔Extinguishers - ✔✔All extinguishers coloured red
Water - white lettering - class A fires
Carbon dioxide - black - class A+B
Foam - cream - class A+B
Dry powder - blue - all classes
Halon - green - now very rare
Wet chemical - yellow - class F
✔✔COSHH - ✔✔Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002
✔✔CHIP 4 - ✔✔Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations
2009 - not due to be superseded
✔✔CLP - ✔✔Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation - this will replace CHIP
4 (N.B. this is European Regulation)
✔✔REACH - ✔✔Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals
(European Regulation EC1907/2006)
✔✔Forms of chemical agents - ✔✔Dusts
Fibres
Fumes
Gases
Mists
Vapours
Liquids
✔✔Forms on biological agents - ✔✔Fungi
Bacteria
, Viruses
Blue-green algae
✔✔Chemicals hazardous to health are classified as: - ✔✔Toxic or very toxic
Harmful
Corrosive
Irritant
Carcinogenic
✔✔Routes of entry for hazardous substances - ✔✔Inhalation
Ingestion
Absorption through the skin
Injection
✔✔Five steps to COSHH assessment - ✔✔Gather information about the substance, the
people exposed, and work activities carried out
Evaluate health risks - are current controls adequate
Identify controls and implement them
Record the risk assessment and actions taken
Review and revise
✔✔Factors to consider on COSHH health risks - ✔✔Hazardous nature
Physical form
Quantity
Potential ill-health effects
Duration
Routes of entry
Concentration
Number of people
Control measures
✔✔Sources of information for COSHH - ✔✔Product labels
HSE Guidance note EH40
Manufactures' safety data sheets
✔✔COSHH principles of good practice - ✔✔Design and operate processes to minimise
exposure
Consider routes of exposure
Control exposure
Choose effective control measures
Combine with suitable PPE
Check and review
Inform and train
Ensure does not increase other risks
