Nebosh Management: Health & Safety
Task 1: Employees’ responsibilities in the workplace
- It is likely that the injured worker, and their fellow worker, may have breached some of their duties as employees under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
Comment on the extent to which section 7 clauses may have been breached.
Note: You should support your answer, where applicable, using relevant information from the scenario.
Task 2: Influencing health and safety culture
- To improve health and safety performance in the supermarket, you know that you need to positively influence health and safety culture.
- What appear to be the negative indicators of health and safety culture at the supermarket? (20)
Note: You should support your answer, where applicable, using relevant information from the scenario.
Task 3: Health and safety management roles and responsibilities
- Comment on the effectiveness of roles and responsibilities in relation to health and safety management in the supermarket.
Note: You should support your answer, where applicable, using relevant information from the scenario.
Task 4: Accident investigation and recommendations
- Why should the scene of the accident have been secured?
- Based on the scenario only, what training would you recommend the supermarket arranges for the different types of workers to minimize the probability of a repeat accident?
Task 5: Determining individual human factors that negatively influence behavior
- What individual human factors might have negatively influenced the behavior of the injured worker?
Note: You should support your answer, where applicable, using relevant information from the scenario.
Task 6: Showing how the faulty compactor exposed workers to greater risk
With the compactor’s safety protection device not working, the workers were exposed to significantly greater risk. A good visual way of demonstrating and understanding this is to draw a risk matrix like the one shown below.
Assuming that you are teaching someone who has never seen this kind of risk matrix before
- show how the matrix can be used to confirm that the risk level was acceptable when the compactor risk assessment was initially carried out.
- show how the matrix can be used to confirm that the risk level changed significantly with the safety protection device not working.
Note: Show calculations and support the calculations using information, where applicable, from the scenario.
- What additional administrative control measures could the supermarket put in place to prevent a repeat of this accident with the compactor?
Note: You should support your answer, where applicable, using relevant information from the scenario.
Task 7: Financial arguments for the store manager to improve health and safety
Based on the scenario only, what financial arguments could you use to convince the store manager that health and safety needs to be improved?