2365 Level 2 Unit 201/501 Health and Safety exam.

[pennychew]

Afternoon chaps,

As per the title i have my exam for the health and safety module tomorrow at college, have any of you done it yet this year?

Its Multi choice and probably mostly common sense but just wondering if there are any odd questions in there that i should be revising on!

Stu

 

[Spearmint]

Haven't taken any yet, first one is May-ish I'm told.

How did it go?

 

[pennychew]

Haven't taken any yet, first one is May-ish I'm told.

How did it go?

Went well thanks! It's 42 questions and most of them are pretty obvious but there's a few obscure questions as well, I ended up with 92% so I must have got 3 questions wrong.

My college bag is only half the weight it was now I've dumped all the health and safety handouts and related ****e out of it, I'm going to stick it all up in the loft, hopefully never to be seen again!

 

[Simonslimline]

Its worth memorising the steps (in order) to a risk assessment and a method statement. These questions appeared in a test we had last week.

 

[Spearmint]

Went well thanks! It's 42 questions and most of them are pretty obvious but there's a few obscure questions as well, I ended up with 92% so I must have got 3 questions wrong.

My college bag is only half the weight it was now I've dumped all the health and safety handouts and related ****e out of it, I'm going to stick it all up in the loft, hopefully never to be seen again!

Good to hear, nice one! Looking forward to actually trying out one of these exams, lots of talk about them but months off yet! I know what you mean about carrying all the handouts about!

Its worth memorising the steps (in order) to a risk assessment and a method statement. These questions appeared in a test we had last week.

I'll keep my eye out for that section, we haven't actually started any H&S stuff yet.

 

[happysteve]

Got mine tomorrow. Tried to revise yesterday evening (reading the Trevor Lindsey book). Fell asleep - twice! Will be glad when this is out of the way...

 

[Morley2012]

It's easy lads just common sense but they did throw in some stuff on excavation which we were never taught.

Check out a website called sixteenth dimension and choose the relevant course 2365/2357 loads of question on there and very helpful.

 

[Paul.M]

Lads, I said the same when I was at school, "Thank God the H&S stuff is out of the way."

Trust me when I say IT DOES NOT STOP AT THESE EXAMS.

You will have to use this education to gain your CSCS card and your ECS card. You will have to sign and agree to an On Site H&S contract to gain access to the workplace site. You will then have to apply this education to keep yourself and others safe in the workplace. A man that is dangerous on site is the first one to be sent home, seen it and they deserved it.

Basic stuff but I had a fright a few weeks ago because I did not think about my own safety. Short story is:- Ladders with plastic feet on a laminate floor and yes the ladders kicked out on me and left me hanging from a loft latch looking like a dogs dangley bits which left me with pulled back, stomach, arms muscles and a very nasty bruise down the left arm. My body was not in a good state for 2 weeks! WHY? = I did not think, look or plan the job in hand. That is what H&S is all about and this is only a small incident!!!


Your Lectures are teaching you H&S not because they have to, its because it keeps you and others safe. At the end of the day, this is a job/occupation. Lets not get a life long injury or illness because we ignored basic safety.

Good luck in your exams but please dont ever think your doing this training just to get past your course.




BTW I'm not a H&S freak, I'm just telling you how it is in the real world.

 

[happysteve]

Damn straight.

 

[pennychew]

Damn straight.

Was it today you had your test?

How did you get on?

 

[happysteve]

Yeah, just finished it! Went alright, I reckon, cheers.

Seems to be an exam shared with other qualifications - questions on excavations, gas (cylinders), confined spaces, access, working at height.

One question I know I got wrong and really confused me, was about RIDDOR: summat like "number of days off work for an injury to be reportable." Trevor Lindsey's book (level 3, p44) says: "What needs reporting? ... or any injury which results in an absence from work of over three days." Trouble is, the options were 5, 6, 7, or 8! I've just checked on the HSE website - seems "The list of 'specified injuries' in RIDDOR 2013 replaces the previous list of 'major injuries' in RIDDOR 1995." So looks like it's been recently updated. Just goes to show you need to keep up to date with the regs, I guess!

Reportable incidents - RIDDOR - HSE

Other than that... went well!

 

[pennychew]

Yeah, just finished it! Went alright, I reckon, cheers.

Seems to be an exam shared with other qualifications - questions on excavations, gas (cylinders), confined spaces, access, working at height.

One question I know I got wrong and really confused me, was about RIDDOR: summat like "number of days off work for an injury to be reportable." Trevor Lindsey's book (level 3, p44) says: "What needs reporting? ... or any injury which results in an absence from work of over three days." Trouble is, the options were 5, 6, 7, or 8! I've just checked on the HSE website - seems "The list of 'specified injuries' in RIDDOR 2013 replaces the previous list of 'major injuries' in RIDDOR 1995." So looks like it's been recently updated. Just goes to show you need to keep up to date with the regs, I guess!

Reportable incidents - RIDDOR - HSE

Other than that... went well!

Yeah my questions were covering the same topics, had one on the colour of different gas bottles which i think i got wrong and one on the colours of different asbestos which i think i got wrong as well.

Did they not give your results at the end?

 

[happysteve]

Nah, they said they'd get the results today. Suppose they'll let us know next week.

Different asbestos colours, aye! "What colour's crocidolite?" Well I knew it wasn't white, so I thought, "What would be better - a blue crocodile, or a brown crocodile?" Went with blue. Got lucky! Oh I love these multi-choice exams...

 

[pennychew]

Nah, they said they'd get the results today. Suppose they'll let us know next week.

Different asbestos colours, aye! "What colour's crocidolite?" Well I knew it wasn't white, so I thought, "What would be better - a blue crocodile, or a brown crocodile?" Went with blue. Got lucky! Oh I love these multi-choice exams...

I had the exact same question but I guessed brown!

 

[Paul.M]

I stole this from a web site:-

"There are three main types of asbestos, crocidolite (blue), amosite (brown) and chrysotile (white)."

And the answer to your other question under DIDDOR is now 5 days. It used to be 3 days but it was increased about 2 years ago I think (someone correct on that point if you can).

I think both of you will get good results from your H&S exams.