Self Assessment Questions Level 3

Health and Safety in Agrciulture and Horticulture

Unit 1

AIMS
This self assessment test helps you check what you know about health and safety on farms and plots.

TASK

Select one of the four possible answers for each question from those available (to deselect a choice click the tick next to it). Click 'answers and score' at the bottom of the page to see how you have done.

1 How is risk measured?
Expert v. Experience
Damage / Cost
Severity X Likelihood
Bodies per litre
2 How is a hazard best controlled?
Suppress
Enclose
Ventilate
At source
3 Who should assess the different risks of various hazards? 
Government
Those at risk
Trade Associations
Experts
4. How do you assess the risk of a hazard?
Includes all of below, or:
How it may affect you
How it affects colleagues
How it affects neighbours

5. Which of the following might carry out a workplace inspection?
All listed below
Supervisors and or Trade Union reps
Independant experts
Managers
6.Which is the last resort for controllong chemicals?
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Substitute
Enclosure
Suppression
7. 'As far as is reasonably practicable' requires a computation of what?
Likelihood of damage compared to severity
Insurance costs compared to legal costs
Possible damage compared with costs of controls
Quote for cheapest practical solution
8. When there is a change in working practices employers have a duty to consult with whom?
Lawyers
Workers representatives
HSE
Neighbours
9. With whom does an employee first raise a concern?
Worker represenative
Manager
Responsible person
HSE Inspector
10. What should an employer ask for when purchasing equipment /chemicals?
Data Sheets
All of these
Safety Tests
Product Assurance
11. Who does an employee have to talk with after a serious accident?
Employer
HSE Inspector
Relative of injured party
Insurance agent

12. Who would not need to be familiar with the contents of the company's Health & Safety Policy?
Employees
Managers
Visitors
Visiting staff, eg. contractors


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