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NEBOSH Practical Final Sample 22
NEBOSH Practical Final Sample 22
NEBOSH Practical Final Sample 22
2. Risk of traffic accident due to H I Email all school workers to increase Immediately
narrow sharp bend on access awareness. Get the school
road to rear car park. managers to contact parents.
3. Risk of traffic accident due to H I Inform school workers by email not Immediately
undesignated car parking in to park in undesignated areas.
several areas that prevent
vision of road and cause driving Erect bollards where possible. Erect
over footpaths to reach these M no parking signs. 2 months
areas.
Site maintenance team to monitor
L and issue warning letter to On going
offenders. Discuss with Human
Resources manager.
4. Risk of trip due to potholes in L I Barrier off around affected area. Immediately
surface of footpath Erect warning sign.
1. Introduction
This report follows a workplace inspection of the education development centre on the 26 th August
20** and identifies good and poor practices. The centre has a large education development building,
one primary school, one short stay pupil referral unit and a day nursery. The property is owned and
maintained by the local council. There is an access road from the main road, which runs around the
school, between buildings and then through to the rear car parks.
The education development centre is occupied by 370 workers whose roles revolve around
education attainment, improvement and inclusion. Many workers are outreach workers and visit
schools, children centres, and homes. As a result, access and egress to the building is heavily used.
Potential hazards include slips, trips, and falls, musculoskeletal injury and access and egress
arrangements.
2. Executive summary
It was pleasing to observe a high standard of housekeeping. There was an appropriate amount of
lighting inside and outside the buildings. The welfare facilities were of good standard, i.e. clean and
plenty of toilets and washrooms for the amount of workers.
However, during the inspection it was identified that some areas posed a risk of serious injury or ill
health and were in need of improvement. Areas of concern were vehicle movement through the
school site and risks of electric shock, due to uncontrolled access to the communications mast and
several items of portable electrical equipment being out of date with their portable appliance testing
(PAT) test. Also, there was an increased risk of fire and manual handling injury due to many
document files stored under workers desks, next to electrical cables and sockets. These and other
important observations are discussed in the findings part of the report.
Most of the problems that were observed were related to a lack of maintenance and a general lack
of understanding of the need for good health and safety practice. Recommendations include
refresher training and maintenance of signs and electrical equipment, all of relatively low cost,
particularly when related to the risks observed. Two areas observed that were under good control
were the testing and recording for legionella and asbestos.
Details of all observations made during the inspection are attached at the end of this report.
3. Main Findings
3.1 Observation 1 Risk of road traffic accidents speed limit, hazards and parking
The access road that runs through the school site is heavily used, as many workers do outreach
work. In addition, visitors to the site, parents and children use the road to come into school and the
day nursery. It was noted that many of the painted road sins were worn away, so users would not be
aware of speed restrictions. This presented a significant risk of vehicles speeding and causing road
traffic accidents. Also, there were many sharp bends in the road, which would increase the potential
risk from speeding. The additional problem of vehicles being parked in undesignated areas
prevented drivers having proper vision of the road and obstructed footpaths. In view of the
vulnerability of the many pedestrians in the area, this could easily result in a major injury or fatality.
Any claim for damages would be very high and this type of accident could have very high
consequences to the schools reputation.
Speeding vehicles and vehicles inappropriately parked make access and egress unsafe, not only for
school workers, but other car users and pedestrians. These risks may be seen to contravene the ILO
Occupational Safety and Health Convention C155, Article 16 (1), which requires employers to
provide workplaces that are safe.
School workers, parents, children and visitors should be alerted immediately of the speed limit,
sharp bend hazard and parking problem, for example by email and letters handed out. This will incur
very little cost, mainly time and paper. Temporary signs should be made and located on the route
into the school and where parked vehicles cause an obstruction. This can be done by downloading
signs from the internet, printing and laminating them using school facilities, costs for this should be
limited to 30. Maintenance work should be carried out during the next four weeks to repaint speed
limit signs and erect a sing warning of the sharp bends, at a cost of 500 approximately. Signs and
bollards should be erected to prevent the unauthorised parking; this is likely to cost approximately
1,000. All limit signs and restriction parking should be monitored yearly during the site inspection.
The sum of money necessary to make improvements is small relative to the risk of serious injury that
may be caused by the hazards.
It was observed that the gates restricting access to the communications mast were not secured by a
padlock and there were no signs warning of the electrical hazard within the restricted area. This
meant that anyone could enter the restricted area and be at risk of electric shock. The school has a
large number of children on site who may be attracted by the electrical equipment and could have
entered the area without difficulty. The absence of warning signs indicating an electrical hazard
could someone to believe they were entering a safe area.
Failing to restrict access to the electrical equipment may be considered a breach of the ILO
Occupational Safety and Health Convention c155, Article 16(1), which requires workplaces
machinery, equipment and processes to be safe and without risk to health. Though the risk of
immediate danger from electricity due to someone entering the restricted area is not high it is
significantly increased by the failure to prevent entry.
With the co-operation of maintenance worker for the site a padlock was added to the fates to secure
them. The padlock was available for their purpose, but had not been fitted to the gate following a
visit from a maintenance contractor, therefore there was no new cost related to this control
measure. Temporary electrical hazard warning signs should be fitted until permanent signs can be
obtained. The cost of these temporary and permanent signs is likely to be about 250. In the
medium term, the supervisor of school maintenance work should ensure the padlock is only
removed to allow authorised entry and refitted immediately on completion of this work. The
security of access to the communication mast should be monitored as part of the site security
arrangements, this may require a small amendment to the contract of the security company that
does this work, but it is expected that is could be added with little or no cost.
3.3 Observation 13 and 15 Risk of manual injury and fire document files stored under desks
It was identified that many of the workers stored document files under their desks, occupying a large
amount of space. These files were situated next to trailing electrical cables, which were plugged into
extension leads. The three elements of the fire triangle were present oxygen, fuel (paper files) and
heat (electrical cables and sockets). This combination presented a risk of fire occurring and although
the fire would start in the office area there is a risk that it could spread and affect the whole centre.
This would be a serious risk to all workers and children. No fire risk assessment had been carried out
and fire risk controls were inadequate, contravening the ILO Guidelines on Occupational Safety and
Health Management Systems (ILO OSH) 2001, which require risk assessment and the application of
control measures.
These poor storage arrangements not only increase the chances of a fire starting and spreading
rapidly, but also pose a risk of back injury when office workers have to bend and assume a very poor
posture when retrieving the files. This poor manual handling arrangement could quickly lead to
serious injury of an office worker and long term absence from work. The office workers are all
experienced and specialise in their education field, therefore finding temporary replacement
workers would not be easy and this would be very damaging to the educational service provided.
The storage arrangements do not comply with the ILO Occupational Safety and Health Convention
C155, Article 16 (1) and (2), in that manual handling risks should be avoided where reasonably
practicable and where risk remain they are minimised by appropriate protection measures.
Workers should be reminded of the fire and manual handling risk as soon as possible, those workers
not immediately available should be emailed. The files should be promptly removed into temporary
storage, at a cost of workers time and storage boxes, which are currently available as stock was
purchased for a recent educational project. Suitable shelving should be erected at the cost of 500
approximately. It is recommended that all office workers have fire awareness and manual handling
refresher training , incurring internal cost of worker and health and safety advisor time. The training
should be short and can be done at their monthly meeting. It is recommended that awareness
training is done as part of the annual departmental meeting, this will ensure costs are limited.
3.4 Observation 17 Risk of electric shock and fire out of date portable electrical equipment
testing
Several items of electrical equipment around the site were not displaying up to date portable
appliance testing (PAT) sticker. The absence of the sticker could mean that the equipment is
defective. The PAT sticker confirms that electrical equipment has been suitably tested as part of the
maintenance programme. The use of equipment that has not been maintained breaches ILO
Occupational Safety and Health Convention C155, Article 16 (1) requirements that equipment should
be safe, since equipment that is not maintained can lead to the risk of fire or workers experiencing
an electric shock, which may prove fatal. An injury or fatality would not only be a cost to the centre,
but also to the worker and their family. Employers have a legal duty under EWR to ensure all
portable electrical equipment is maintained. This should be clearly marked on the equipment and
recorded.
Immediate action is required to identify and isolate all items that are out of date, this would be at a
small cost taking a couple of hours of time and labels to mark them out of use. Following this , a
competent person (trained electrician) should carry our PAT test on this equipment, typically at a
cost of 2.00 per item. In the future, all equipment should be tested regularly and care should be
given to ensure equipment stored in cupboards is included in all tests.
4. Conclusion
Routine maintenance is identified as an area where attention is needed. The poor maintenance of
road speed limit signs and lack of portable appliance testing on electrical items were particular areas
requiring immediate management attention. Under the ILO Occupational Safety and Health
Convention C155, Article 16 (1), employers have a responsibility to ensure equipment is safe,
including the carrying out of maintenance to protect workers and others who may be in the
workplace or come into contact with their equipment.
Storing document files under desks next to electrical cables and sockets is a fire hazard. The poor
storage of files also creates a risk of manual handling injuries when workers have to retrieve the
files. This suggests a lack of appreciation of the need for good health and safety practice. Fire and
manual handling risk assessment of the storage of files in the education workers office need to be
carried out immediately in order to ensure the safety of workers. Education workers should have
refresher training to remind them of the importance of fire and manual handling issues. This may
indicate a wider problem, this should be evaluated as other workers may also need similar training.
All the areas identified in the findings of this report could result in injury or a fatality, which would
cause suffering to the victims and their families. Employers have a legal and moral duty of care to
take action and reduce the risk identified.
The inspection identified a number of good practices where strong management of hazards was in
place, including two important health hazards, legionella and asbestos. The good practices identified
are commended and should be continued.
Health and safety needs to be of a high priority as failure to manage risk can lead to prosecution or
compensation claims, which can only have an adverse effect on the centres reputation and financial
position as well as the health and safety of the people involved.
I suggest that my recommendations are implemented at the earliest opportunity according to the
priority allocated to them in the next section of this report. By doing this, the centre will openly
demonstrate to all workers that their health and safety is being taken seriously at all levels of
management. Also, it will show that, in the long term, a positive health and safety culture is being
developed, which will reduce the sizeable cost attributed to accidents and enhance the reputation of
the organisation in a very competitive market place.
5. Recommendations
Signature _ G Gardner
Date _26/08/xx
For completion by the course providers representative (e.g. internal practical assessor):
I declare that the work marked is identical to that received from the candidate. I recognise that
contravention of this statement constitutes malpractice and may result in my being subject to the
penalties set out in the NEBOSH malpractice policy.
Signature _ J smith
Date _01/09/xx
I declare that the work marked is identical to that received from the candidate. I recognise that
contravention of this statement constitutes malpractice and may result in my being subject to the
penalties set out in the NEBOSH malpractice policy.
Signature _ B Ferry
Date _06/09/xx