Sample 2019 Past Papers

1.
a. Give meaning of following terms: (6)
- Health – absence of disease or ill health, for example asbestos create health risk such
as lung cancer
- Safety – absence of risk of serious personal injury, for example someone walking
under a load of crane
- Welfare – the access to basic facilities such as toilets, changing rooms, rest places,
food area, drinking water, and first aid provision
b. Outline workers’ H&S responsibilities (6)
- Workers have to cooperate with employers to fulfil his safety obligations
- Take reasonable care of own safety and who might be affected by things they do and
they fail to do
- Comply with safety instructions and procedures
- Use all safety equipment properly
- Report any situation they believe could be hazard and they cannot correct
themselves
- Report any work related accident of ill health
c. Outline employer’s health and safety responsibilities (8)
- Ensure workplace, machinery, equipment and processes under control are without
risk to health
- Ensure chemical, physical, biological substances and agents are without risk to
health
- Provide adequate protective clothing and protective equipment to prevent risk of
accident or adverse effects on health
- Provide instruction and training
- Provide necessary supervision

2.
a. Identify three key sections of health and safety policy (3)

b. Outline ways in which line managers can implement organisation’s h&s policy (5)

3.
a. Explain objectives of carrying out workplace risk assessment (4)
b. Identify why risk assessment may need to be reviewed (4)

4. A worker has been injured by slipping on wet floor after cleaning.

Outline possible root causes (management system failures) of accident (8)

5.
a. Identify types of emergency in the workplace for which people may
need to be evacuated. (4)
b. Outline why it is important that workers receive training on emergency
procedures. (4)
6. Outline what an organisation should consider when assessing the
competence of a contractor at the pre-selection stage. (8)

7. Identify possible costs to an organisation of work-related ill-health. (8)

8. Outline what needs to be considered when organising first aid in a

workplace. (8)

9. Outline reasons why accidents in a workplace should be reported and

recorded. (8)

10. Identify information that could be considered when reviewing an

organisation’s health and safety performance. (8)

11. Posters are commonly used to communicate health and safety information in
the workplace.
a. Outline benefits of using posters to communicate to workers. (3)
b. Outline limitations of using posters to communicate to workers. (5)