WGU NEBOSH NGC1 Foundations in Health and Safety Verified
Solutions| 2025 prepare for national certification
Health - ✔✔✔A state of wellbeing
Safety - ✔✔✔An absence of danger or physical harm
Welfare - ✔✔✔Facilities for workplace comfort (toilet, sanitation, canteen)
Accident - ✔✔✔An unplanned event resulting in injury, ill health, or loss
Dangerous Occurrence - ✔✔✔One of the specific reportable near misses as defined in RIDDOR 2013
Near Miss - ✔✔✔Event that did not cause harm but had the potential to cause injury
Work Related Ill Health - ✔✔✔Harm to a worker's health caused by their work
Hazard - ✔✔✔Something with the potential to cause harm
Risk - ✔✔✔Likelihood of the potential harm from a hazard being realized
£5 million - ✔✔✔Legally required minimum amount of Employer's Liability Compulsory Insurance for an
organization of more than 5 people
£2500 per day - ✔✔✔Maximum penalty which an organization would have to pay if they did not hold
the minimum amount of Employer's Liability Compulsory Insurance
Management of Health and Safety at Work
,Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations
Display Screen Equipment
Manual Handling
Workplace (Health, Safety, Welfare) Regulations
Personal Protective Equipment - ✔✔✔Set of EU directives collectively known as the EUROPEAN SIX
PACK
Criminal Law - ✔✔✔Type of law enforced by government agencies, concerned with protection of
people, determining guilt by proving beyond reasonable doubt, and which punishments include fines or
imprisonment
Statute Law - ✔✔✔Written laws which are enacted by a legislative body
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 - ✔✔✔Enabling Act which allows regulations to be made in regards
to Health and Safety, and where possible sets these regulations as goals, describing what must be
achieved but not how it must be done.
Absolute Duty
Practicable Duty
Reasonably Practicable Duty - ✔✔✔3 levels of statutory duties
Absolute Duty - ✔✔✔Highest level of duty which occurs when the risk of injury is so high that injury is
inevitable unless safety precautions are taken; a must, shall duty
Practicable Duty - ✔✔✔Level of duty that ensures that the employer ensures so far as is reasonably
practicable, any control measure is maintained in an efficient state.
If the duty is technically possible that it must be done regardless of any difficulty, inconvenience or cost.
, Reasonably Practicable Duty - ✔✔✔Most common level of duty whereby the employer can weigh the
risks against the time, costs, and or efforts of removing or reducing the risk
Summary Offense - ✔✔✔Minor offense which can be tried without a jury in the Magistrate Court
Indictable Offense - ✔✔✔Serious offense which is tried with a jury in the Crown Court
Either Way Offense - ✔✔✔Offense which can be tried in either the Magistrate or Crown Court
Health and Safety Executive
Office of Rail Regulation
Local Authority
Police
Crown Prosecution Service
Environmental Health Officer
Fire Service
Environmental Agency - ✔✔✔Enforcement Agencies
Fatality
Serious Accident
Dangerous Occurrence (RIDDOR 2013)
Random Visit
Routine Visit (High Risk Organizations - Petroleum)
Whistle Blower (public or disgruntled employee)
Serious Spillage
Environmental Issue
Degree of Risk
Invited - ✔✔✔Reasons for Health and Safety Executive or Local Authority Inspections
Solutions| 2025 prepare for national certification
Health - ✔✔✔A state of wellbeing
Safety - ✔✔✔An absence of danger or physical harm
Welfare - ✔✔✔Facilities for workplace comfort (toilet, sanitation, canteen)
Accident - ✔✔✔An unplanned event resulting in injury, ill health, or loss
Dangerous Occurrence - ✔✔✔One of the specific reportable near misses as defined in RIDDOR 2013
Near Miss - ✔✔✔Event that did not cause harm but had the potential to cause injury
Work Related Ill Health - ✔✔✔Harm to a worker's health caused by their work
Hazard - ✔✔✔Something with the potential to cause harm
Risk - ✔✔✔Likelihood of the potential harm from a hazard being realized
£5 million - ✔✔✔Legally required minimum amount of Employer's Liability Compulsory Insurance for an
organization of more than 5 people
£2500 per day - ✔✔✔Maximum penalty which an organization would have to pay if they did not hold
the minimum amount of Employer's Liability Compulsory Insurance
Management of Health and Safety at Work
,Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations
Display Screen Equipment
Manual Handling
Workplace (Health, Safety, Welfare) Regulations
Personal Protective Equipment - ✔✔✔Set of EU directives collectively known as the EUROPEAN SIX
PACK
Criminal Law - ✔✔✔Type of law enforced by government agencies, concerned with protection of
people, determining guilt by proving beyond reasonable doubt, and which punishments include fines or
imprisonment
Statute Law - ✔✔✔Written laws which are enacted by a legislative body
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 - ✔✔✔Enabling Act which allows regulations to be made in regards
to Health and Safety, and where possible sets these regulations as goals, describing what must be
achieved but not how it must be done.
Absolute Duty
Practicable Duty
Reasonably Practicable Duty - ✔✔✔3 levels of statutory duties
Absolute Duty - ✔✔✔Highest level of duty which occurs when the risk of injury is so high that injury is
inevitable unless safety precautions are taken; a must, shall duty
Practicable Duty - ✔✔✔Level of duty that ensures that the employer ensures so far as is reasonably
practicable, any control measure is maintained in an efficient state.
If the duty is technically possible that it must be done regardless of any difficulty, inconvenience or cost.
, Reasonably Practicable Duty - ✔✔✔Most common level of duty whereby the employer can weigh the
risks against the time, costs, and or efforts of removing or reducing the risk
Summary Offense - ✔✔✔Minor offense which can be tried without a jury in the Magistrate Court
Indictable Offense - ✔✔✔Serious offense which is tried with a jury in the Crown Court
Either Way Offense - ✔✔✔Offense which can be tried in either the Magistrate or Crown Court
Health and Safety Executive
Office of Rail Regulation
Local Authority
Police
Crown Prosecution Service
Environmental Health Officer
Fire Service
Environmental Agency - ✔✔✔Enforcement Agencies
Fatality
Serious Accident
Dangerous Occurrence (RIDDOR 2013)
Random Visit
Routine Visit (High Risk Organizations - Petroleum)
Whistle Blower (public or disgruntled employee)
Serious Spillage
Environmental Issue
Degree of Risk
Invited - ✔✔✔Reasons for Health and Safety Executive or Local Authority Inspections
