Managing safely revision questions: health and safety for managers

Managers and supervisors are expected to understand how health and safety is managed, not only the rules for the shop floor. This free revision quiz covers the management side in thirteen questions, with the law or HSE guidance behind every answer.

Updated 31 October 2026

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Managing safely revision questions: 13 practice questions for managers (UK)

Health and safety for managers in 13 questions: hazard and risk, the principles of prevention, records, competent help, Plan-Do-Check-Act, monitoring, investigating incidents and directors' liability. Free quiz with instant feedback and a short explanation citing the rule for every answer. Based on the law of Great Britain (Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999) and HSE guidance (HSG65, HSG245). Practice material written by Quizhat: these are not the questions of any official test, course or assessment, and Quizhat is not affiliated with IOSH, NEBOSH, HSE or any training provider; it is not the material or the assessment of any branded course.

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The ideas behind managing safely

The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 asks employers to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees, and to have a written health and safety policy. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 turn that into a method: a suitable and sufficient risk assessment, recorded where there are five or more employees; preventive measures chosen according to the general principles of prevention, starting with avoiding risks and giving collective measures priority over individual ones; recorded arrangements for planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review; and one or more competent persons to help.

HSE's guide Managing for health and safety (HSG65) frames this as Plan, Do, Check, Act. «Check» means active monitoring before things go wrong, such as planned inspections, and reactive monitoring after they do, such as accident and near-miss data. HSE's workbook Investigating accidents and incidents (HSG245) explains immediate, underlying and root causes, and why fixing only the immediate cause leaves the real failing in place.

What the quiz covers

hazard and risk, as HSE defines them;
the principles of prevention in Schedule 1 of the 1999 Regulations;
what must be recorded with five or more employees (regulations 3 and 5);
competent persons (regulation 7);
Plan, Do, Check, Act and active versus reactive monitoring;
near misses and root causes;
personal liability of directors and managers (section 37 of the 1974 Act).

For the worker-level rules, such as employees' duties, RIDDOR deadlines and training, play the health and safety quiz UK.

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Many managers search for these topics before a branded course such as IOSH Managing Safely. This quiz is not that course or its assessment: it was written by Quizhat from the legislation and free HSE guidance, it does not use any course material, and Quizhat is not affiliated with IOSH, NEBOSH, HSE or any training provider. Use it to revise the ideas, then follow your provider's own materials and assessment.

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Frequently asked questions

Are these IOSH Managing Safely exam questions?

No. They are revision questions written by Quizhat from the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, the Management Regulations 1999 and HSE guidance. Quizhat is not affiliated with IOSH or NEBOSH, and their assessments are set by them and their providers.

What does Plan, Do, Check, Act mean in health and safety?

It is the approach in HSE's guide HSG65: plan what you want to achieve, put the arrangements in place, check how they work through active and reactive monitoring, and act on what you learn.

When must a risk assessment be written down?

Where the employer has five or more employees, it must record the significant findings and any group of employees identified as especially at risk (regulation 3(6) of the 1999 Regulations).

Can a manager be prosecuted personally?

Yes. Under section 37 of the 1974 Act, if a company's offence is committed with the consent or connivance of, or through the neglect of, a director, manager or similar officer, that person can be guilty too.