Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

Specimen answers to NEBOSH examinations
441
NATIONAL GENERAL 
Candidate’s observation
CERTIFICATE 
sheet
Unit NGC3 – Health and safety 
 
Sheet number 6 of 6
practical application
Candidate name J Brown 
Candidate number 
C
9887
Place inspected S & J Joinery Training Workshops 
Date of inspection 7 / 6 / 2007
Observations 
Priority/risk 
Actions to be taken (if any) 
Time scale
List hazards, unsafe practices and
 
(H, M, L)
 
List all immediate 
and
longer-term
 
(immediate,
good practices 
actions required 
1 week, etc)
ADMINISTRATION OFFICE
29.
Electric fi re in the offi ce has no guard
H 
Remove fi re and fi t a guard and undertake a 
Immediate
and is not included on PAT register.
PAT test.
(Electricity Regs.) 
Place fi re on PAT register if it is to be kept
After remedial
and 
monitor. 
action.
30.
Health and safety policy statement
– 
Display policy statement on the main notice 
Immediate
completed but kept in offi ce drawer
board in the workshops and communicate
unsigned and undated. (HASW Act) 
effectively to staff and trainees (at induction) 
after it has been signed by the chief executive 
of the company and dated.
31.
Employers’ liability insurance certifi cate
– 
Display the Employers’ liability insurance
is up-to-date but not displayed on a 
certifi cate on the main notice board in the 
notice board. 
workshops.
32.
The accident records are kept
– 
Commendable.
up-to-date with no serious accidents 
reported.
33.
All trainees and employees are given an
– 
This is commendable but given some of the 
induction training session that includes
problems found during this inspection, 
health and safety. Detailed records are
a review of the contents of the induction
kept of this and all other training. 
training should be undertaken.
34.
DSE assessment completed even
L 
Good.
though VDU only used for limited 
times. (DSE Regs.)
35.
Risk of fi re due to VDU being left on
M 
Inform staff of the need to ensure that all power 
Immediate 
all the time. 
supplies to equipment are turned off when 
the equipment is not in use.
Arrange a rota of staff to check all equipment at
1 week.
the end of the day.

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Abrasion hazards 131–2, 168, 172
Absolute liability 7–8
Access control 272
Access equipment height working 
292–6
Accident books 121
Accidents 2
see also
incidents
categories 70
costs 18
defi nition 69
incident rate 50
investigations 117–18
rates 16–17
Accommodation, clothing 258
ACOP 
see
Approved Code of Practice
Action, incidents/accidents 
investigations 117
Acts, summary 308–9
Advantages, portable electrical 
appliance testing 199–200
Advisers, health and safety 34–5
Agricultural machines, safeguards 179, 
180–1
Air pollution 244–5
Air receivers, examination 163
Alarms, security equipment 272
Alcohol:
abuse investigation 273
effects 273
Alpha particles 266
Ammonia 229
Appointed persons, fi rst-aid 95
Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) 
10–11
Arcing electric 192
Area inspection checklist 114–15
Asbestos 230
Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations 1983 
(amended 1998) 312
Assembly and roll call, emergencies 93
Assessments:
see also
risk assessments
exposure 85–6
health surveillance 85–6
safe systems of work 87
Audit:
health and safety management 
system 412–13
performance 109–11
Basic elements, management 
systems 405–6
BATNEEC 
see
Best Available 
Techniques not Entailing 
Excessive Cost
Benchmark standard, auditing 110
Benefi ts, incidents/accidents 
investigations 117–18
Best Available Techniques not 
Entailing Excessive Cost 
313, 315
Best Practicable Environmental 
Option 245
Best practice guidance 11
Beta particles 226
Biological agents 224
Biological health hazards 223–246
Boiler examinations 163
BPEO 
see
Best Practicable 
Environmental Option
Breathing apparatus 239,240
Brush cutter/strimmer hazards 172
Building, fi re protection 217–219
Burns 189, 190
Buying equipment 37–8
Carbon dioxide 229–30
Carbon monoxide 230
Cardiovascular system 227–8
Carrying employees, mobile work 
equipment 169–71
Case law 
see
civil law; common law; 
criminal law; Regulations
CDM 
see
Construction Design and 
Management
CDM Regulations, defi nition 286
CE markings 159, 160, 388–9
Cement dust 284
wet cement 284
Cement mixer safeguards 183–4
Cement/concrete mixer hazards 173
Certifi cate of conformity 160
Changing facilities 258
Checklist:
area inspection 114–15
hazards 76–7
Health and Safety Policy 28–30
manual handling of load 
assessment 156–8
organization 28
plant 29
policy 28
scaffolding faults 302
Chemical Agents, types 223–4
Chemical health hazards 223–46
Chemicals (Hazard Information 
and Packaging for Supply) 
Regulations 2002 37, 320–4
Chlorine 229
CHSW 
see
Construction (Health 
Safety and Welfare) (CHSW) 
Regulations 1996
Circular saw hazards 173
Civil law 3–4, 5
Closed circuit television 272
Codes of Practice, ACOP 10–11
Collisions:
pedestrians and fl ying objects 131–2
pedestrians and moving vehicles 
131, 133
pedestrians and stationary 
objects 133–4