Many New Zealand sites ask for a Site Safety Card before you start. This free practice quiz goes over the law the entry-level courses are built on, the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and its regulations, with the section behind every answer.
The card and the law
Site Safe is an industry-backed, not-for-profit organisation that runs construction safety training. Its entry-level Foundation Passport courses lead to the Site Safety Card, formerly called the Site Safe Passport, which many principal contractors and employers ask for before letting you on site. The card is an industry requirement, not a legal one: the law says that the PCBU must make sure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that workers are trained, supervised and instructed for the work they do.
So whatever card you hold, the rules on site come from the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, the General Risk and Workplace Management Regulations 2016 and the parts of the 1995 Regulations still in force. That is what this quiz is about.
What the quiz covers
- Falls: means to prevent a fall of more than 3 metres, and notifiable work, such as a possible fall of 5 metres or more, notified to WorkSafe at least 24 hours before;
- excavations: trenches over 1.5 metres deep and deeper than wide are notifiable work, and a collapse is a notifiable incident even if nobody is hurt;
- managing risk: eliminate first, then substitution, isolation or engineering controls, then administrative controls, and PPE last;
- PPE provided by the PCBU, never charged to the worker;
- the right to stop work that would expose you to a serious risk from an immediate or imminent hazard;
- notifiable events, keeping the site undisturbed, first aid, and several PCBUs on one site working together.
Practice, not the course assessment
These questions were written by Quizhat from New Zealand legislation. They are not Site Safe questions or answers, and Quizhat is not affiliated with Site Safe or WorkSafe New Zealand. Use the quiz before a course to arrive prepared, after it to see what has stuck, or in a toolbox talk to start a discussion about the hazards on your own site.