IGC-1 QUESTIONS

1. Barriers to a good health and safety at work place?

2. Reason for promoting good standards of health and safety in
work place?
3. Direct & indirect costs?
4. Health and safety inspector powers?
5. The key element of health and safety management system?
6. Outline the purpose of health and safety policy in an
organization?
7. Key features and contents of health and safety policy?
8. Identify the contents in an arrangement section of health and
safety policy?
9. What is Target and explain SMART?
10.
Outline the target of an organization?
11.
What is Benchmarking?
12.
Outline the circumstances to review a health and safety
policy?
13.
Who is the Controller of Premises?
14.
What are the responsibilities of Suppliers, Manufacturers
and Designers?
15.
What is client, Contractor and Sub contractor?
16.
Explain the ways a client manages a contractor to reduce
the risk to an organization before and during the project?
17.
What is Joint Premises?
18.
Health and safety Culture?
19.
The factors influencing the deterioration of health and
safety culture in an organization?
20.
What is competence and motivation?
21.
Identify the ways to motivate a person?
22.
What is Perception?
23.
Identify the ways to improve worker perception of hazards?
24.
What is communication?
25.
Advantages & disadvantages of Verbal, Written, Visual and
Posture Communications?
26.
Information that can be displayed on a notice board?
27.
Effectiveness of notice board?
28.
Define Training, Toolbox Talk and Induction Training?
29.
Identify the contents of Induction training?
30.
Factors to be considering when developing health and
safety training program?
31.
First Aid?

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Factors to be considered when providing first aid provision
in the work place?
33.
What is Risk Assessment?
34.
Key stages of Risk Assessment?
35.
What is Suitable and sufficient Risk Assessment?
36.
Composition of Risk Assessment team?
37.
Control measure of Visitors?
38.
Control measure of Pregnant Women?
39.
Outline the reasons for young workers that they are more at
risk?
40.
Control measures for young workers?
41.
Hierarchy of Control?
42.
Outline the limitation of PPE / Reasons why PPE is
considered as last sort of control measures?
43.
Define Safe System of Work?
44.
Outline the factors to be considered when developing a safe
system of work?
45.
What is Confined Space? Hazards and Control measures?
46.
Responsibilities of Hole watch / Attendant?
47.
What is Permit to Work? What are the main sections of
Permit?
48.
What are the monitoring methods? (Proactive/active or
Reactive)
49.
Different types of Proactive / active monitoring? (Safety
inspection, safety sampling, safety survey, safety tour/walk
through, benchmarking, health surveillance and safety audit)
50.
Advantages & disadvantages of Checklist?
51.
What is Reactive monitoring and eg.?
52.
Define Audit?
53.
Outline the documents examined during the audit?
54.
What are the audit process?
55.
Advantages and disadvantages of Internal audit?
56.
Advantages and disadvantages of external audit?
57.
Difference between audit and safety inspection?
58.
Reasons / causes of Incident Investigation?
59.
Members of an incident investigation team?
60.
Outline the immediate and longer term action that should
be taken following a serious injury at work place?
61.
Contents of an incident investigation report?
62.
Outline the reasons for not reporting accident by workers?
63.
Reasons for reviewing health and safety performance?

Definitions
1. Benchmarking: It is the process of comparison between two
organizations. Ensure a suitable organization must be chosen for
benchmarking.
2. Controller of Premises: A person or an organization can make
a building or workplace available to work for other people for
different types of activities. In this instance the owner is not
known as employer, but referred as Controller of Premises.
3. Joint Premises: When two organizations share a single
workplace, the risk the one employer creates may affect the
employees of other employer. Eg. Where two employers occupy
offices in the same building, same floor, the fire risk created by
one employer affect the safety of other employer.
4. Health and safety culture: Can be defined as the shared
activities, values, beliefs and behaviors relating to health and
safety.
5. Competence: A person who has sufficient training, knowledge
and experience to do his work safely and without the risk to
health.
6. Motivation: Motivation is a driving force or a stimulant that
make a person to behave or to do a task.
7. Perception: Perception is the way we intercept situation around
us.
8. Communication: The process of delivering information from a
sender to a recipient.
9. Training: Training is the central part of any management system.
Once a person undergone the training, he should be able to
understand the hazards and risk associated with the job and
importance to taking the control measures.
10.
Risk Assessment: The aim of Risk Assessment is to ensure
that hazards are eliminated or risks are minimized by the correct
application of relevant standards.
11.
Hierarchy of Control: It is the concept used at great deal
in health and safety. It is a list of options, in order of importance
effectiveness or priority. So that the most extreme and effective

control method is at the top of hierarchy ELIMINATION and least

effective at the bottom PPE.
12.
Safe System of Work: It is a formal procedure based on a
systematic examination of work in order to identify the hazards. It
defines safe methods of working which eliminate those hazard or
minimize the risk associated with them.
13.
Confined space: It is a space which has limited access
and egress. It is a space which is not suitable for continues
human occupancy.
14.
Permit to Work: It is a formal documented safety
procedure, forming a safe system of work, which ensures that all
necessary actions are taken before, during and after completion
of work.
15.
Safety Inspections: A regular scheduled activity with
comparison to accepted performance standards. This can be
done by using checklists.
16.
Safety Sampling: It is pre-determined route that the
inspector may utilize for the inspection of a particular area at the
site.
17.
Safety Survey: It is a detailed examination of one
particular issue or topic. Eg. Requirement of providing emergency
lights at site.
18.
Safety Tour (Walk Through): A high profile of safety
inspections of workplace carried out by a senior managers.
19.
Safety Audit: It is an independent, systematic and critical
examination of organizations management system to ensure all
its parts are working well by examining evidences.