1. Outline the possible content of a workplace emergency procedure.

(12)

An workplace emergency procedure should contains the following parts:

(1) Emergency contact list which contains name, telephone number and so on.
This is not specific, it does not answer the question, and so on means I don’t know.

(2) Search and rescue team which is made up of the trained workers.
(3) Emergency escape route which tells the workers the best way to go away from the workplace.

(4) Equipment list which contains the location and number and responsible person of the

emergency tools and equipment.

(5) The specific duty of some specific workers should be contained. I would have written role
and responsibilities of the emergency response team

(6) The location of muster point should be clearly noted.

(7) The judgement and instruction of how to deal with the emergency situation should be

contained I don’t like the judgement, it is non specific, I do like your answer of how to deal
with the emergency situation.

(8) The way of how to tell others the emergency situation should be contained.

(9) The purpose of the emergency procedure should be contained.

(10) The actions to reduce the effect of the emergency should be contained.

(11) Actions to clean up the workplace after emergency should be contained.

(12) The person who is responsible for the emergency situation should be contained.
This answer is the same as number (5) but in different words.

Score 10/12

2. (a) Give the definition of a confined space. (3)

Confined space means an area which is relatively closed and people may get injury in this place.
Score 0/3
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(b) Give examples of a confined space. (5)

(1) Pipe

(2) Oil Tank

(3) Sewer

(4) Well

(5) Pit
Score 5/5

3. Outline circumstances that would require a health and safety policy to be

reviewed. (8)

(1) If there is an accident in the company, the health and safety policy should be reviewed.

(2) If new laws and legislations are issued, the health and safety policy should be reviewed.
(3) If the senior managers are changed, the health and safety policy should be reviewed.

(4) The health and safety policy should be reviewed after a long time. Be specific, how much
time? One hour? One day? One year?
(5) If the government department asks the company to review the policy, the health and safety

policy should be reviewed.

(6) If there are new industrial criteria, the health and safety policy should be reviewed.
(7) If an audit result shows that the policy is no longer effective, the health and safety policy

should be reviewed.

(8) If the techniques have changed, the health and safety policy should be reviewed.
Be specific, What techniques? Change in the construction of components?
Score 6/8

4. Outline factors that should be considered in order to determine the

frequency of health and safety inspections in the workplace. (8)

(1) The risk level, if the risk level is high, the frequency of inspections should be increased.

(2) The number of workers in the workplace, more workers more inspections.

(3) The requirement of company rules and regulations should be considered.

Be specific, What are the company rules?

(4) The requirement of industrial criteria should be considered.

Be specific, What is the criteria?

(5) The requirement of the government document should be considered.

Be specific, What government document?

(6) The complexity of the equipment used in the workplace should be considered.
(7) The complexity of the technology used in the workplace should be considered.

(8) The working environment in the workplace should be considered.

Score 5/8

5. A worker was injured after failing to follow written instructions. The instructions were contained in
a company handbook that was issued on induction.

Explain why providing written instructions in a handbook may be ineffective. (8)

There are many reasons why written instructions in a handbook may be ineffective.
(1) Some workers don’t like to read so they just know there are instructions but they don’t the content of

them.

(2) Some workers have never gone to school so they cannot read.

(3) A written instruction is difficult to understand to some workers. Why?

(4) A written instruction is not as specific as a picture so they are difficult to remember.

(5) Some workers don’t like to take the handbook with them so they don’t have chance to read them.
(6) The handbook is difficult to read to some workers whose eyes are not good enough as the font size.

(7) The workers don’t have time to read when working.

(8) The handbook is easy to miss which makes the worker don’t have chance to read.

Score 7/8

The book written in a language the worker does not understand.

The book was written with a lot of jargon which was not understood by the reader.
The book contained a lot of technical wording which was not understood.
No supervision to ensure that the instructions contained in the book were implemented.