Welcome to your HSE PRACTICE QUESTIONS
1.
What is the recommended safe voltage for electrical equipment on building sites?
2.
What should not be in a first-aid box?
3.
Do you have any responsibility for minimising the amount of waste created?
4.
What does this sign mean?
5.
Which of these is not your legal duty as a worker?
6.
If you have to use a vibrating tool, how can you help reduce the effects of hand-arm vibration?
7.
You are planning work that needs to use a power tool to cut or grind materials. Give two ways to control the dust.
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8.
When can you use a ladder at work?
9.
What is the main reason for ensuring safe manual handling techniques in the workplace?
10.
The high levels of solvents in some paints and resins can cause?
11.
Why is it your employer's legal responsibility to discuss matters of health and safety with you?
12.
What should you do if you see the side supports move when you are working in an excavation?
13.
What are two ways of reducing the risk of transferring hazardous substances from your hands to your mouth?
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14.
If you need to use a vibrating tool, even for a short time, how can you help reduce the risk of hand-arm vibration?
15.
How can asbestos be correctly identified?
16.
You have been given a dust mask to protect you against hazardous fumes, what should you do?
17.
Can the damage by exposure to noise over a long period of time be reversed?
18.
What does a hot work permit allow you to do?
19.
Why should you try to use battery-powered tools rather than electrical ones?
20.
You are using a trolley to move a heavy load a long distance but a wheel comes off. What should you do?
Increase in friction can only bring forth more heat with can then become a means of ignition. Nevertheless, increase of in friction will also expedite wear ad tear