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This is the most up to date CSCS Mock exam 2019. You can use this exam as many times as you like when preparing for the CSCS/ HSE test. The test is developed and designed for the CSCS Operatives test 2019.

1. What is the MINIMUM height of the main guard-rail on a working platform?

750 mm

850 mm

950 mm

1,050 mm

2. Who should undertake a planned task that involves significant risk?

A competent person

A worker

A supervisor

A health and safety professional

3. What danger is created by excessive oxygen in a confined space?

An increase in the breathing rate of workers

Combustible materials are more likely to
catch fire

A decreased working time inside the work
area

A false sense of security

4. What is the purpose of an on-site risk assessment?

To save time completing documentation

To review hazards and risks to ensure that
any planned safety system is still applicable

To ensure that the work can be carried out in
a reasonable timeframe

To protect the company from prosecution

5. If someone is injured at work, who should record it in the accident book?

The site manager

The injured person or someone acting for them

The first aider identified on site

Someone from the Health and Safety
Executive (HSE)

6. A whole site has been issued with a prohibition notice. What does this mean during the period that the notice applies?

You must be on site A before work starts

The site manager must check with the
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) before
starting work

No-one must use any survey equipment,
tools or machinery

All work must stop on site until the safety
problem is rectified

7. What type of fire extinguisher should NOT be provided where petrol or diesel is being stored?

Foam

Water

Dry powder

Carbon dioxide

8. How should you be informed about emergency assembly points?

By reading a risk assessment

By reading a method statement

By attending the site induction

By checking the permit to work

9. You are visiting a project that involves removing paint from old iron work. Which of
the following would enable the contractor to assess the foreseeable health risk of the
work during the tender period?

Laboratory test results of a sample of paint
that gives its lead content

The prevailing wind conditions

Fit testing of respiratory protective
equipment (RPE)

Tests to determine the average paint
thickness

10. Why should white spirit or other solvents NOT be used to clean hands?

They could strip the protective oils from the skin

They will remove several layers of skin

They could block the pores of the skin

They could carry harmful bacteria that attack the skin

11. A member of the public has been injured by work activities and taken to hospital for
treatment. What should happen next?

The accident should be reported by the
responsible person to the Health and Safety
Executive (HSE)

The responsible person should send the
member of the public some flowers and ask
them to keep quiet

The member of the public should be
reminded by the responsible person to take
greater care and attention near a site

The accident should only be reported to the
site health and safety manager by the
responsible person

12. What is the MAXIMUM recommended gap between the scaffold and the structure?

225mm

350mm

470mm

600mm

13. What are the legal MINIMUM facilities that should be provided on site for washing your hands?

There is no need to provide washing
facilities

Running hot water and electric hand-dryers

A cold water standpipe and paper towels

Hot and cold water (or warm water), soap,
and a way to dry hands

14. What can cause occupational dermatitis?

Using tools that vibrate

Contact with another person who has
dermatitis

Contact with some strong chemicals or
substances

Working in the sun without sun cream

15. What does a fire need to burn, in addition to heat and fuel?

Oxygen

Carbon dioxide

Argon

Nitrogen

16. How can you tell if a product is hazardous?

By warning symbols on the container or
packaging

By the shape of the container

It will always be in a black container

It will always be in a cardboard box

17. When using portable or pole ladders for access, what is the MAXIMUM vertical
distance between landings?

2 m

5 m

9 m

30 m

18. Work in a confined space usually needs a risk assessment, a method statement and
what other safety document?

A permit to enter

An up-to-date staff handbook

A written contract for the work

A company health and safety policy

19. When MUST you record an accident in the accident book?

If you are injured in any way

Only if you have to be off work

Only if you have suffered a broken bone

Only if you have to go to hospital

20. What is the MOST important reason for keeping a working area on a construction
site clean and tidy?

To help prevent slips, A trips and falls

To save time cleaning up at the end of the
week

So that waste skips can be emptied more
often

To recycle waste and help the environment

21. Who is responsible for managing health and safety on site?

Building inspector

Contracts manager

Health and safety executive

Site manager

22. If you have a minor accident, who is responsible for making sure it is reported?

Anyone who saw the accident

A workmate

You, if possible

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

23. What is the FIRST thing you should do if you discover a fire?

Put any equipment away

Finish what you are doing, if it is safe to do
so

Try to put out the fire

Raise the alarm

24. In what situation is a worker MOST likely to catch Weil’s disease (leptospirosis)?

If they work near wet ground, waterways or
sewers

If they work near air-conditioning units

If they work fixing showers or baths

If they drink water from a standpipe

25. If you suspect someone has been drinking alcohol, what should you do?

Get them to drink plenty of strong coffee
before they go back to work

Tell them your concerns and see that they
are safely removed from site

Ask them to stay away an hour and then go
back to work

Get them to eat and drink something, wait
30 minutes and then go back to work

26. Flammable materials have been left lying around site. What is this?

A near miss

A hazard

An incident

A dangerous occurrence

27. What does it mean if you see frost around the valve on a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder?

The cylinder is nearly empty

The cylinder is full

The valve is leaking

You must lay the cylinder on its side

28. If a doctor gives an employee some medication, what should the employee ask
the doctor?

Will it make them drowsy or unsafe to work
or operate machinery?

Will it make them work more slowly and earn
less money?

Will they fail a drugs test?

Will it cause them to oversleep and be late
for work?

29. When using a leaning ladder what should the slope or angle of the ladder be?

45°

60°

75°

85°

30. What is the MAXIMUM permitted gap between the guard-rails on a working
platform?

350 mm

470 mm

490 mm

510 mm

31. If there is a fatal accident or reportable dangerous occurrence on site, when MUST
the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) be informed?

Immediately

Within five days

Within seven days

Within 10 days

32. A scaffold has collapsed and you saw it happen. What should you say when you are
asked about the accident?

As little as possible, as you are not a
scaffold expert

As little as possible because you don’t want
to get people into trouble

Exactly what you saw, giving as much detail
as possible

Who you think is to blame and how they
should be punished

33. What action could employees take if they feel a construction company has
discriminated against them at work?

Take the employer to a tribunal

Action can only been taken if the employee
has a recognised disability

Nothing, if a contract of employment has
been signed

Report the company to the Health and
Safety Executive (HSE)

34. What happens to the nozzle of a carbon dioxide (CO2) fire extinguisher when it is
used?

It gets very cold

It gets very hot

It gets very warm

It gets very heavy

35. What should you do if you are in a confined space when the gas alarm sounds?

Switch off the alarm

Get out of the confined space immediately

Carry on working but do not use electrical
tools

Carry on working but take plenty of breaks in
the fresh air

36. Which animal is the MOST likely carrier of Weil’s disease (leptospirosis) on
construction sites?

Rabbits

Rats

Squirrels

Cats

37. How far should a ladder extend above the stepping-off point if there is no alternative, firm handhold?

Two rungs

Three rungs

Four rungs or half a metre

Five rungs or one metre

38. Who MUST be legally notified of a death, specified injury, dangerous occurrence or
over seven-day injury on a site?

The company’s insurance company

The local health centre

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

No-one

39. When leaving a site you have been visiting you notice that a contractor is working in an unsafe manner. What should you do?

It is not your responsibility so leave site

Return and speak to the site manager

Contact the principal designer

Contact the contractor’s head office

40. While on site you see a contractor working in a way that presents an imminent danger to yourself and others around you. What should you do immediately?

Move to another area of the site and
continue with your work

Before you leave site ensure that you inform
the project manager

Speak directly to the contractor and tell them
to stop work

Ensure that you inform the client and the
principal designer

41. Where MUST an emergency route or routes ensure safe access to?

The ground

The open air

A place of safety

The first-aid room

42. What should you do if you find that the toilets on the site you are visiting are dirty?

Ignore the problem, it is normal

Tell the site manager who can sort it out

Ask someone to find some cleaning materials and attend to it

See if you can use the public toilets nearby

43. What colour are emergency and safe condition signs, such as fire exit and first
aid points?

Blue and white

Red and white

Green and white

Red and yellow

44. An excavator on site has overturned but no-one was injured. What MUST happen
next?

Clear up as quickly as possible and resume
work

Investigate the incident

Make a report to the Health and Safety
Executive (HSE)

Report the incident in the accident book

45. How does tetanus (an infection you can catch from contaminated land or water) get
into your body?

Through your nose when you breathe

Through an open cut in your skin

Through your mouth when you eat or drink

Through the pores in your skin

46. A worker is using a wheelbarrow to move a heavy load. Is this manual handling?

No, because the wheelbarrow is carrying the
load

Only if the load slips off the wheelbarrow

Yes, they are still manually handling the load

Only if the wheelbarrow is pulled instead of
pushed

47. Which of the following can provide a good first impression of how well a site is being run?

How tidy and organised it is

What the principal contractor says in the monthly site meeting

What the last RIDDOR report says

The number of signs displayed at the site entrance

48. What MUST all workers do under the regulations for manual handling?

Only exceed the weights identified in the risk
assessment if they know they are capable of
lifting them

Make a list of all the heavy things they have
to carry

Lift any size of load they feel comfortable
with

Follow the requirements of their employer’s
safe systems of work

49. If a heavy load has been delivered to site, what is the FIRST thing that should be
considered?

How far the load would have to be carried
manually

How the risk of manual handling could be
reduced

How many people are needed to lift the load

How the need to manually lift the load could
be avoided

50. A worker notices that contaminated water is entering a surface water drain. What is the FIRST thing they should do?

Notify the Environment Agency

Contain the pollution

Clean up the pollution

Stop the pollution

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