Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

3.13 
Practice NEBOSH questions for 
Chapter 3
1. 
Outline
the factors that will determine the level of 
supervision that a new employee should receive 
during their initial period of employment within an 
organization.
2. (a)
Explain
the meaning of the term ‘competent 
person’
(b) 
Outline
the organizational factors that may cause 
a person to work unsafely even though they are 
competent.
3. 
Outline
a procedure designed to ensure the health 
and safety of visitors to work premises.
4. 
List
the factors that should be considered when 
assessing the health and safety competence of 
a contractor.
5. 
Outline
the checks that could be made in 
assessing the health and safety competence of 
a contractor.
Figure 3.7
Working 
together.

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6. A contractor has been engaged by a manufacturing 
company to undertake extensive maintenance work 
on the interior walls of a factory workshop.
(a) 
State
the legal duties that the manufactur-
ing company owes the contractor’s employees 
under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 
1974
(b) 
Outline
the information relevant to health and 
safety that should be provided before work com-
mences by:
(i) 
the manufacturing company to the con-
tractor, AND
(ii) 
the contractor to the manufacturing 
company.
(c) 
Describe
additional procedural measures that 
the manufacturing company should take to help 
ensure the health and safety of their own and the 
contractor’s employees.
7. (a)
State
the circumstances under which an 
employer must establish a health and safety 
committee
(b) 
Give