Quiz

Quizzes are available to test your understanding of the key concepts covered in each chapter. Click on the quiz below to get started.

1. HSE is an acronym for which UK organisation

  1. Health and Safety Examiner
  2. Health and Safety Exemplar
  3. Health and Safety Executive
  4. Health and Safety Exchange

Answer:

c. Health and Safety Executive

2. What is the term used to describe the health problems caused by contemporary workplaces, such as offices

  1. ‘mad office disease’
  2. ‘modern malaise’
  3. ‘sick workplace symptoms’
  4. ‘sick building syndrome’

Answer:

d.  ‘sick building syndrome’

3. Which form of illness or injury currently accounts for the greatest proportion of UK incapacity benefit claimants

  1. mental health problems
  2. musculoskeletal disorders
  3. long-term disease
  4. viral infections

Answer:

amental health problems

4. Which of the following represents the central tenet of current UK health and safety legislation

  1. self-regulation
  2. strict guidelines
  3. affordability
  4. justifiability

Answer:

a. self-regulation

5. Under UK health and safety legislation, employers have a duty of care to take steps to safeguard employees against hazards which are ‘reasonably…’

  1. expected
  2. foreseeable
  3. usual
  4. regular

Answer:

b. foreseeable