NEBOSH Process Safety
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Immediate cause - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The unsafe act or unsafe condition that
leads directly to the consequences (caused harm, damage, etc)
Root cause - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An underlying circumstance that allowed the
unsafe condition or act to exist (mainly organisational and management
failings)
MOC - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Management of Change
, Consultation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The two-way exchange of information
between parties, in this case between employer and worker. This is far
more effective than the one-way exchange that we see when people are
simply 'informed'
Competence - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The ability to undertake responsibilities and
to perform activities to a recognised standard on a regular basis... a
combination of practical and thinking skills, experience and knowledge
Leading indicators - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Proactive measurements of conditions
that monitor process safety before something goes wrong and to see if
things are operating as intended
Lagging indicators - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Reactive measures that look at failures,
such as the number of injuries, the number of near misses and the number
of spills that are reported, or excursions where plant is operated outside the
intended operational envelope
Auditing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔This can be defined as the "systematic, objective
critical evaluation of how well an organisation's management system is
performing by examining the evidence"
Hazard - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Something that has the potential to cause harm
Management 2026 Expert
Verified | Ace the Test
Immediate cause - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The unsafe act or unsafe condition that
leads directly to the consequences (caused harm, damage, etc)
Root cause - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An underlying circumstance that allowed the
unsafe condition or act to exist (mainly organisational and management
failings)
MOC - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Management of Change
, Consultation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The two-way exchange of information
between parties, in this case between employer and worker. This is far
more effective than the one-way exchange that we see when people are
simply 'informed'
Competence - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The ability to undertake responsibilities and
to perform activities to a recognised standard on a regular basis... a
combination of practical and thinking skills, experience and knowledge
Leading indicators - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Proactive measurements of conditions
that monitor process safety before something goes wrong and to see if
things are operating as intended
Lagging indicators - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Reactive measures that look at failures,
such as the number of injuries, the number of near misses and the number
of spills that are reported, or excursions where plant is operated outside the
intended operational envelope
Auditing - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔This can be defined as the "systematic, objective
critical evaluation of how well an organisation's management system is
performing by examining the evidence"
Hazard - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Something that has the potential to cause harm
