NEBOSH
MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY
UNIT IG1:
For: NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
MANAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
UNIT IGC1:
For: NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
NEBOSH International Certificate in Construction Health and Safety
NEBOSH International Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management
Open Book Examination
Available for 24 hours from 02 December 2020, 09:00 GMT
Guidance to learners
This is an open book examination. It is not invigilated, and you are free to use any learning
resources to which you have access, eg your course notes, or a website, etc.
By submitting this completed assessment for marking, you are declaring it is entirely your own work.
Knowingly claiming work to be your own when it is someone else’s work is malpractice, which carries
severe penalties. This means that you must not collaborate with or copy work from others. Neither
should you ‘cut and paste’ blocks of text from the Internet or other sources.
The examination begins with a realistic scenario to set the scene. You will then need to complete a
series of tasks based on this scenario. Each task will consist of one or more questions.
Your responses to most of these tasks should wholly, or partly, draw on relevant information from the
scenario. The task will clearly state the extent to which this is required.
The marks available are shown in brackets to the right of each question, or part of each question.
This will help guide you to the amount of information required in your response. In general, one mark
is given for each correct technical point that is clearly demonstrated. Avoid writing too little as this
will make it difficult for the Examiner to award marks. Single word answers or lists are unlikely to
gain marks as this would not normally be enough to show understanding or a connection with the
scenario.
You are not expected to write more than 3 000 words in total.
Try to distribute your time and word count proportionately across all tasks.
It is recommended that you use the answer template.
Please attempt ALL tasks.
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, SCENARIO
Over recent months large numbers of people, in almost every country in the world, have been
affected by the spread of a virus. The situation has been categorised as a global pandemic and has
led to national emergencies. Scientists discover more and more every day about how the virus
works. However, the current understanding is that this virus is very easily transmitted through
physical contact (between people and with contaminated surfaces) and breathing in respiratory
droplets (mainly from coughing and sneezing but also from normal talking). In most cases, the virus
leads to mild illness in the young, fit and healthy, but can cause severe illness and even death for
others.
Official guidance on how to control the virus is also subject to change as the science evolves. The
exact details can depend on which country you are in, and even which part of the country. But, at the
current time, in your location, the primary control measures that are recommended against the
spread of the virus are: keeping a physical distance between people (called ‘social distancing’);
general hygiene measures (frequent hand washing or hand sanitising, and regular cleaning and
decontamination of surfaces). Wearing face masks (that cover the mouth and nose) is also
recommended in some circumstances, as an additional measure.
You are the Health and Safety Adviser for a medium-sized insurance company that has certification
to an internationally recognised occupational health and safety management system standard
(something which, over the years, has made the organisation more efficient and attracted some
important corporate clients). You normally work in an office building but, in order to control the
spread of the virus through physical contact, and protect people, you, and all other office workers, are
following current government instructions to work from home. In addition, it is anticipated that being
away from the busy office environment will reduce work-related incidents (near misses, accidents, ill-
health, property damage) and any possible investigations, enforcement action and civil claims that
would have arisen.
You have written a procedure and guidance on best practice for home working, including workstation
set-up in a home-working environment. This guidance has been distributed to all workers. The
organisation is making widespread use of technology to enable remote home working, including
video-conferencing facilities for business meetings and client contacts.
The organisation is also concerned about the workers’ mental well-being during this new way of
working. The management team have therefore asked each department to schedule short (30-
minute) computer-based team meetings, at least on a weekly basis. The intention is to help workers
maintain social contact with colleagues, but they are also a forum to raise concerns. Alternatively,
one-to-one meetings can be arranged for those reluctant to discuss things during team meetings.
Six months later when the Government has the virus outbreak under much more control,
Government advice changes, allowing people to return to offices, provided they implement a range of
additional control measures to limit virus transmission. The Managing Director calls the Facilities
Manager, the Human Resources Manager and you to a meeting to plan for a possible return to the
office. Before the meeting, the Managing Director asks you and the Facilities Manager to carry out a
specific virus risk assessment, with input from worker representatives. To help develop workable
measures, you also visit an organisation that is at a more advanced stage of implementing virus
management measures. You also research the latest government advice on making workplaces, like
yours, secure against the virus.
At the meeting, you and the Facilities Manager present the findings of your risk assessment, site visit
and research. You decide that the significant findings of the risk assessment will be shared with all
workers through team meetings before the office return and a copy of the signed risk assessment will
be placed on all health and safety noticeboards in the office. The organisation will extend the
cleaning company contract to include more frequent and extensive cleaning of the office. An e-mail,
including a detailed step-by-step approach to thoroughly washing hands and other hygiene
procedures, will be sent to all workers. This will be supplemented by posters which will be in all
washrooms. New hand sanitising procedures will be written and relayed during remote computer
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MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH AND SAFETY
UNIT IG1:
For: NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
MANAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
UNIT IGC1:
For: NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
NEBOSH International Certificate in Construction Health and Safety
NEBOSH International Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management
Open Book Examination
Available for 24 hours from 02 December 2020, 09:00 GMT
Guidance to learners
This is an open book examination. It is not invigilated, and you are free to use any learning
resources to which you have access, eg your course notes, or a website, etc.
By submitting this completed assessment for marking, you are declaring it is entirely your own work.
Knowingly claiming work to be your own when it is someone else’s work is malpractice, which carries
severe penalties. This means that you must not collaborate with or copy work from others. Neither
should you ‘cut and paste’ blocks of text from the Internet or other sources.
The examination begins with a realistic scenario to set the scene. You will then need to complete a
series of tasks based on this scenario. Each task will consist of one or more questions.
Your responses to most of these tasks should wholly, or partly, draw on relevant information from the
scenario. The task will clearly state the extent to which this is required.
The marks available are shown in brackets to the right of each question, or part of each question.
This will help guide you to the amount of information required in your response. In general, one mark
is given for each correct technical point that is clearly demonstrated. Avoid writing too little as this
will make it difficult for the Examiner to award marks. Single word answers or lists are unlikely to
gain marks as this would not normally be enough to show understanding or a connection with the
scenario.
You are not expected to write more than 3 000 words in total.
Try to distribute your time and word count proportionately across all tasks.
It is recommended that you use the answer template.
Please attempt ALL tasks.
IG1_IGC1-0003-ENG-OBE-QP-V1 Dec20 © NEBOSH 2020 page 1 of 5
, SCENARIO
Over recent months large numbers of people, in almost every country in the world, have been
affected by the spread of a virus. The situation has been categorised as a global pandemic and has
led to national emergencies. Scientists discover more and more every day about how the virus
works. However, the current understanding is that this virus is very easily transmitted through
physical contact (between people and with contaminated surfaces) and breathing in respiratory
droplets (mainly from coughing and sneezing but also from normal talking). In most cases, the virus
leads to mild illness in the young, fit and healthy, but can cause severe illness and even death for
others.
Official guidance on how to control the virus is also subject to change as the science evolves. The
exact details can depend on which country you are in, and even which part of the country. But, at the
current time, in your location, the primary control measures that are recommended against the
spread of the virus are: keeping a physical distance between people (called ‘social distancing’);
general hygiene measures (frequent hand washing or hand sanitising, and regular cleaning and
decontamination of surfaces). Wearing face masks (that cover the mouth and nose) is also
recommended in some circumstances, as an additional measure.
You are the Health and Safety Adviser for a medium-sized insurance company that has certification
to an internationally recognised occupational health and safety management system standard
(something which, over the years, has made the organisation more efficient and attracted some
important corporate clients). You normally work in an office building but, in order to control the
spread of the virus through physical contact, and protect people, you, and all other office workers, are
following current government instructions to work from home. In addition, it is anticipated that being
away from the busy office environment will reduce work-related incidents (near misses, accidents, ill-
health, property damage) and any possible investigations, enforcement action and civil claims that
would have arisen.
You have written a procedure and guidance on best practice for home working, including workstation
set-up in a home-working environment. This guidance has been distributed to all workers. The
organisation is making widespread use of technology to enable remote home working, including
video-conferencing facilities for business meetings and client contacts.
The organisation is also concerned about the workers’ mental well-being during this new way of
working. The management team have therefore asked each department to schedule short (30-
minute) computer-based team meetings, at least on a weekly basis. The intention is to help workers
maintain social contact with colleagues, but they are also a forum to raise concerns. Alternatively,
one-to-one meetings can be arranged for those reluctant to discuss things during team meetings.
Six months later when the Government has the virus outbreak under much more control,
Government advice changes, allowing people to return to offices, provided they implement a range of
additional control measures to limit virus transmission. The Managing Director calls the Facilities
Manager, the Human Resources Manager and you to a meeting to plan for a possible return to the
office. Before the meeting, the Managing Director asks you and the Facilities Manager to carry out a
specific virus risk assessment, with input from worker representatives. To help develop workable
measures, you also visit an organisation that is at a more advanced stage of implementing virus
management measures. You also research the latest government advice on making workplaces, like
yours, secure against the virus.
At the meeting, you and the Facilities Manager present the findings of your risk assessment, site visit
and research. You decide that the significant findings of the risk assessment will be shared with all
workers through team meetings before the office return and a copy of the signed risk assessment will
be placed on all health and safety noticeboards in the office. The organisation will extend the
cleaning company contract to include more frequent and extensive cleaning of the office. An e-mail,
including a detailed step-by-step approach to thoroughly washing hands and other hygiene
procedures, will be sent to all workers. This will be supplemented by posters which will be in all
washrooms. New hand sanitising procedures will be written and relayed during remote computer
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