Health and Safety Revision & Practice Questions
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Topics covered
- Level 1 Asbestos — 60 questions
- Level 2 Asbestos — 100 questions
- Level 2 COSHH — 80 questions
- Level 2 Manual Handling — 80 questions
- Level 2 Retrofit — 150 questions
- Level 2 Risk Assessment — 40 questions
- Level 2 Working at Height — 80 questions
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- Asbestos fibres are heat resistant, durable and can break into fine airborne fibres if disturbed
- Asbestos is heat resistant but quickly dissolves in water, so it is harmless when wet
- Asbestos is a soft plastic that melts at low temperatures and cannot become airborne
- Asbestos is used only as a modern eco-insulation material
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Correct answer: Asbestos fibres are heat resistant, durable and can break into fine airborne fibres if disturbed.
- It degrades quickly
- It melts in cold weather
- It resists degrading
- It dissolves in rain
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Correct answer: Asbestos resists degrading, which is why it remained in buildings for decades.
- Incident
- Risk review
- Hazardous substance
- Safe system
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Correct answer: A hazardous substance is anything with the potential to cause harm to health.
- Lower absence levels
- Damage to reputation
- Less need for training
- Easier supervision
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Correct answer: Poor compliance with manual handling regulations can damage a business's reputation.
- A form of damp
- Gases/particles released into the air
- A building survey
- A legal notice
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Correct answer: Emissions are gases or particles released into the air.
- Elimination
- Enclosure
- Substitution
- Training and safe systems of work
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Correct answer: Training and safe systems of work is an administrative control.
- Step only on areas that look solid
- Remove warning signs so workers are not distracted
- Use suitable access equipment such as crawling boards or a MEWP to avoid loading the fragile surface directly
- Work quickly so less time is spent on the fragile area
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Correct answer: Use suitable access equipment such as crawling boards or a MEWP to avoid loading the fragile surface directly.
- Use a refurbishment survey for day-to-day management and a management survey only after demolition
- Use management surveys for normal occupation/maintenance and refurbishment/demolition surveys before intrusive work
- Surveys are only needed if asbestos is visible; otherwise they are unnecessary
- Any survey type is identical and can be chosen at random
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Correct answer: Use management surveys for normal occupation/maintenance and refurbishment/demolition surveys before intrusive work.
- A noise survey
- Management survey only in all cases
- Refurbishment/demolition survey
- A lighting survey
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Correct answer: A refurbishment/demolition survey is normally needed before major refurbishment work.
- Room booking sheet
- Staff uniform colour
- Delivery driver name
- Labelling
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Correct answer: Labelling is the most useful type of information for safely identifying a hazardous substance.
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