Health and Safety Revision & Practice Questions
Workplace health and safety revision covering asbestos awareness, COSHH, manual handling, risk assessment, working at height and retrofit qualifications.
Topics covered
- Level 1 Asbestos — 60 questions
- Level 2 Asbestos — 100 questions
- Level 2 COSHH — 80 questions
- Level 2 Manual Handling — 80 questions
- Level 2 Retrofit — 150 questions
- Level 2 Risk Assessment — 40 questions
- Level 2 Working at Height — 80 questions
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- Asbestos fibres are heat resistant, durable and can break into fine airborne fibres if disturbed
- Asbestos is heat resistant but quickly dissolves in water, so it is harmless when wet
- Asbestos is a soft plastic that melts at low temperatures and cannot become airborne
- Asbestos is used only as a modern eco-insulation material
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Correct answer: Asbestos fibres are heat resistant, durable and can break into fine airborne fibres if disturbed.
- It degrades quickly
- It melts in cold weather
- It resists degrading
- It dissolves in rain
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Correct answer: Asbestos resists degrading, which is why it remained in buildings for decades.
- Incident
- Risk review
- Hazardous substance
- Safe system
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Correct answer: A hazardous substance is anything with the potential to cause harm to health.
- Lower absence levels
- Damage to reputation
- Less need for training
- Easier supervision
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Correct answer: Poor compliance with manual handling regulations can damage a business's reputation.
- A form of damp
- Gases/particles released into the air
- A building survey
- A legal notice
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Correct answer: Emissions are gases or particles released into the air.
- Elimination
- Enclosure
- Substitution
- Training and safe systems of work
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Correct answer: Training and safe systems of work is an administrative control.
- Step only on areas that look solid
- Remove warning signs so workers are not distracted
- Use suitable access equipment such as crawling boards or a MEWP to avoid loading the fragile surface directly
- Work quickly so less time is spent on the fragile area
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Correct answer: Use suitable access equipment such as crawling boards or a MEWP to avoid loading the fragile surface directly.
- Use a refurbishment survey for day-to-day management and a management survey only after demolition
- Use management surveys for normal occupation/maintenance and refurbishment/demolition surveys before intrusive work
- Surveys are only needed if asbestos is visible; otherwise they are unnecessary
- Any survey type is identical and can be chosen at random
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Correct answer: Use management surveys for normal occupation/maintenance and refurbishment/demolition surveys before intrusive work.
- A noise survey
- Management survey only in all cases
- Refurbishment/demolition survey
- A lighting survey
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Correct answer: A refurbishment/demolition survey is normally needed before major refurbishment work.
- Room booking sheet
- Staff uniform colour
- Delivery driver name
- Labelling
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Correct answer: Labelling is the most useful type of information for safely identifying a hazardous substance.
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- Every question written in the style and difficulty of the real exam.
- Teaching explanations for every answer — learn the topic, not just the answer.
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Health and Safety revision FAQs
How many Health and Safety practice questions are in Revise Right?
Revise Right has 590 Health and Safety practice questions across 7 topics, each written in the style and difficulty of the real exam.
What Health and Safety topics can I revise?
You can revise Level 1 Asbestos, Level 2 Asbestos, Level 2 COSHH, Level 2 Manual Handling, Level 2 Retrofit, Level 2 Risk Assessment and 1 more topics. Every topic has its own question bank so you can focus on the areas you find hardest.
Is the Health and Safety question bank free?
Yes — Revise Right is free to download on iOS and Android, and all questions are bundled offline so you can revise without an internet connection.
Do the Health and Safety questions include explanations?
Yes. Every question comes with a full teaching explanation, so you learn the underlying topic rather than just memorising the answer.