SSSTS: Law and management
The 7 topics in this module of the SSSTS syllabus, with sample questions. The full bank has 60 questions on this module.
Topics
- Health and safety law
- Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
- Health and safety management systems
- Risk assessments and method statements
- Statutory inspections and checks
- Reporting accidents, injuries and ill health
- Leadership and worker engagement
Sample questions
Sample question 1 of 3
As a site supervisor you are also an employee. Which duty does section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 place on you while at work?
- A To ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all the employees on site
- B To prepare and revise a written statement of your employer's general health and safety policy
- C To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and of other persons who may be affected by your acts or omissions
- D To make sure every operative has been issued with a written risk assessment before starting work
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Answer C. Section 7(a) requires every employee while at work to take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and of other persons who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work.
Source: legislation.gov.uk: HSWA 1974 section 7 (latest revised)
Sample question 2 of 3
One of your operatives deliberately removes the guard from a cut-off saw to work faster, and you see it happen. Which section of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 does this conduct most directly breach?
- A Section 8, under which no person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health, safety or welfare
- B Section 6, which covers duties of designers, manufacturers, importers and suppliers
- C Section 4, which covers duties of people concerned with premises
- D Section 2(3), which covers the written statement of general health and safety policy
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Answer A. Section 8 says no person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health, safety or welfare in pursuance of any of the relevant statutory provisions. Removing a guard to work faster is deliberate interference with something provided for safety.
Source: legislation.gov.uk: HSWA 1974 section 8 (latest revised)
Sample question 3 of 3
Your team is working beside a public footpath. Under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, what does your employer owe to passers-by?
- A No duty, because the Act only protects employees
- B A duty only once a member of the public has been injured
- C A duty that passes entirely to the client as soon as the site is fenced
- D A duty to conduct its work so that people not in its employment are not exposed to risks to their health or safety, so far as reasonably practicable
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Answer D. Section 3 requires employers to conduct their undertaking so that people not in their employment are not exposed to risks to health or safety, so far as reasonably practicable. The protection is not limited to employees.
Source: legislation.gov.uk: HSWA 1974 section 3 (latest revised)
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