Operational requirements

Question 1

Sets out the duties and responsibilities of both employers and employees for health and safety in the workplace.

Answer 1

Health and Safety at work act 1974

Question 2

Sets out the duties and responsibilities of both employers and employees for health and safety in the workplace.

Answer 2

1999

Question 3

The management of health and safety at work regulations 1999 reinforce these activities:-

Answer 3

Planning, organisation, control, monitoring.

Question 4

‘It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure reasonable practicable the health & safety of all their employees’.

Answer 4

Health and safety at work act regulations 1992

Question 5

Risk assessment

Answer 5

Identifies anything that could cause harm to people.

Question 6

Hazard

Answer 6

Anything that can cause harm

Question 7

Risk

Answer 7

The likelihood that someone will be harmed by the hazard

Question 8

Written documents designed to cover the full range of work performed within the practice

Answer 8

Standard operating procedures

Question 9

Control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH)

Answer 9

2002

Question 10

Covers the management of risks associated with hazardous substances. These include pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

Answer 10

COSHH

Question 11

Hazardous waste (England & Wales) Regulations (HWR)

Answer 11

2005

Question 12

The premises must keep a waste register for 3 years

Answer 12

Hazardous waste register

Question 13

Infectious waste which requires disposal by incineration

Answer 13

Waste container Yellow

Question 14

Infectious waste which requires treating to render it safe or it is incinerated

Answer 14

Orange

Question 15

Cytotoxic and cytostatic waste

Answer 15

Purple

Question 16

Offensive or hygiene waste

Answer 16

Yellow and black

Question 17

Domestic waste which cannot be recycled

Answer 17

Black

Question 18

Manual Handling Regulations

Answer 18

1992

Question 19

Rules that an employer puts in place to reduce the workers risk of injuring themselves when handling machinery, equipment or patients.

Answer 19

Manual handling regulations

Question 20

The health & safety (First aid) regulations

Answer 20

1981

Question 21

Employees must provide adequate equipment, facilities and personnel to enable first aid to be given to employees.

Answer 21

The health & safety (first aid) regulations

Question 22

Minimum first aid provision is: - A suitably stocked first-aid box and an appointed person to take charge of first aid arrangements.

Answer 22

The health & Safety (first aid) regulations

Question 23

If under 20 employees a person responsible for first aid must be appointed.

Answer 23

The health & safety (first aid) regulations

Question 24

If between 20-50 employees a trained first aider must be appointed in practice.

Answer 24

The health & safety (first aid) regulations

Question 25

Someone appointed to take charge when someone is injured or ill in the work place.

Answer 25

Appointed person

Question 26

Someone who has undergone HSE approved training course in first aid at work and holds a certificate. Training is repeated every 3 years.

Answer 26

First aider

Question 27

Reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrence regulations (RIDDOR)

Answer 27

1995

Question 28

RIDDOR Incidents should be reported when:-

Answer 28

Major or fatal accidents, any accident or illness resulting in absence from work, any near-misses.

Question 29

Fracture of skull or long bone, amputation of hand or foot, loss of sight in an eye, any accident resulting in hospitalisation.

Answer 29

RIDDOR Examples of major accidents:-

Question 30

Health & Safety display screen equipment regulations

Answer 30

1992

Question 31

Noise at work regulations

Answer 31

1989

Question 32

Working time regulations act

Answer 32

1998

Question 33

Electricity at work regulations

Answer 33

1989

Question 34

Sets out entitlement for rest periods, night work and annual leave in line with the hours worked.

Answer 34

The working time regulations 1998

Question 35

The average working time is limited to 48 hours during each 7-day period. There must be a minimum of 11 hours rest in any 24 hour period. There must be a minimum rest period of 24 hours in each 7-day period. This increases to 48 hours for persons under 18 years of age.

Answer 35

The working time regulations 1998 states that:-

Question 36

There must be a minimum rest break of 20 minutes if the working day is longer than 6 hours. All employees are entitled to a minimum of 4 weeks paid annual leave.

Answer 36

Continued the working time regulations act also states..

Question 37

Animal welfare act

Answer 37

2006

Question 38

Comes under the electricity at work act 1989 - All electrical appliances must be tested and deemed safe to use, a label attached to the cable details the date and who tested it.

Answer 38

Portable appliance testing (PAT)

Question 39

Portable appliance testing every..

Answer 39

6 months to 2 years depending on the type of equipment.

Question 40

Hydrogen peroxide is classified as what type of agent?

Answer 40

Oxidising agent

Question 41

TST indicator strips change colour when the correct what has been achieved.

Answer 41

Time, pressure, temperature

Question 42

Yeah that schedule 3 was amended to clarify the role of a VN

Answer 42

2002