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Types of monitoring correct answer: Active monitoring - takes place before any event has happened Reactive monitoring - that takes place in response to, and after, an event Active monitoring correct answer: Involves systematic inspection of workplace and existing safety, measures to establish ...

Define:Health,Safety and Welfare correct answer: Health can be simply defined as the absence of disease or ill health. Safety is the absence of risk of serious personal injury or the state where the risk of harm has been eliminated or reduced to an acceptable level. Welfare means access to ba...

HAZOP Table headings (6) D GP CC S A correct answer: Deviation Cause. Consequence. Safeguards. Actions GW Parameter Existing controls. Addtnl controls Remember, one GW against one parameter can have say 4 causes. The safeguards column may be empty if you don't know them... guide word (HAZO...

P.T.W correct answer: 1.Issues - describe task 2. recipt - sign / agree 3. Clearence - return to service 4. Cancelation - ensure work is compleete 5. Extention - raise new, ensure safe return 5 Steps to risk assessment correct answer: 1. Identify the hazards 2. Decide who can be harmed ...

What are the organisational requirements for effective health and safety management? correct answer: There should be clear framework of roles and responsibilities for health and safety allocated to individuals throughout the organisation, including the appointment of specialists staff and ensuring ...

Define 'Health' correct answer: A state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence if disease ir illness Define 'Safety' correct answer: The state of being safe, free from unacceptable risk of injury, danger or loss Define 'welfare' correct answer: Em...

REASONS FOR GOOD HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT correct answer: MORAL REASONS Need to provide a reasonable standard of care and ethical reasons to reduce: accident rates industrial disease and ill-health rates. SOCIAL REASONS These include: societal expectation of good standards of health and...

Health & Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974nList the Sections correct answer: S2 Employers responsibilities to employeesnS3 Employers responsibilities to othersnS4 Controllers of PremisesnS6 Manufacturers = Importers/SuppiersnS7 Employees DutiesnS8 InterferencenS9 FOCnnnS36 Offences ...

What does a daily personal noise exposure of 85bB(A) mean? correct answer: This refers to a daily personal exposure to noise at a level of 85 dB(A) over the course of a working day (eight hours), or an equivalent exposure over a longer or shorter period. This represents the upper exposure action va...

Define reactive and active monitoring. correct answer: Reactive monitoring is where accidents, near misses and other unwanted events, are used to identify trends and patterns in accident history. Active monitoring is where existing conditions are checked to identify and correct sub-standard matters...

What are the three main drivers for managing health and safety in the workplace? correct answer: xMoral, financial and legal Which of the following is a legal driver for health and safety? correct answer: x Avoiding criminal prosecution What are the two methods that the HSE devised for calcu...

Define Health? correct answer: Health is the absence of disease or ill health. Example Asbestos is a health risk as you may develop lung cancer 20 years after inhaling asbestos dust. Health also relates to psychological ill health such as being exposed to extreme stress which results in a nervou...

Definition of Process Safety Management correct answer: A blend of engineering and management skills focused on preventing catastrophic accidents and near misses, particularly structural collapse, explosions, fires and toxic releases associated with loss of containment of energy or dangerous substa...

Which categories of people does an employer owe a duty to? correct answer: his own employees, other people (workers and non-workers) who maybe present in his workplace, other workers who may be carrying out work on his behalf outside of his workplace and the other people who may be outside his work...