Scribd
Upload
97 views

Mock 1 OBE

You have recently started working as a health and safety practitioner at a logistics company. The company transports hazardous goods and has a large warehouse. Accidents regularly occur involving falls, forklift collisions, and loads falling during lifting. A recent accident resulted in a worker's hand being crushed, requiring 2 months off work. An enforcement officer visited after this and recommended training, speed limiters, and segregating vehicles and pedestrians. When consulting management about improving safety standards, the operations manager refused due to budget and production delays.

Uploaded by

Abrar Abbasi
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
97 views

Mock 1 OBE

You have recently started working as a health and safety practitioner at a logistics company. The company transports hazardous goods and has a large warehouse. Accidents regularly occur involving falls, forklift collisions, and loads falling during lifting. A recent accident resulted in a worker's hand being crushed, requiring 2 months off work. An enforcement officer visited after this and recommended training, speed limiters, and segregating vehicles and pedestrians. When consulting management about improving safety standards, the operations manager refused due to budget and production delays.

Uploaded by

Abrar Abbasi
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Mock scenario #01

You have recently joined an organisation as a health and safety practitioner in one of the
logistics company located in the city, which is connected to numerous road networks. The
Company is responsible for transporting and storing various goods such as heavy machines,
hazardous chemicals, food items, compressed LPG gas cylinders and small to medium size
fuel tanks.

The usual visitors are the delivery truck drivers, facility management team, operational team,
supervisor, local enforcement authority inspector etc. Although there is no need for customer
dealing, customers continue to frequently visit at the reception area and the loading bay. Such
practices unnecessarily increase the risk of exposure.

Company has a large warehouse with shutter doors with large area designed for loading and off-
loading material. Material in the warehouse is stacked on free standing racks.
Shifting of material is done by the use of forklift trucks, mobile cranes and manual labour

Your reporting manager is the company’s operations manager. The company is operating 24
hours a day, 7 days a week with three shifts. Throughout each shift there is only half an hour
break. The company has a total of 55 employees working which includes drivers, supervisor,
warehouse in-charge, office staff and day shift security personnel.

By looking at the past history of accident and upon checking the incident reports you have
observed lots of accidents are occurring, but no near misses are being recorded or reported.
Incident such as material falling from height, collision between forklift and people and load falling
during lifting activities while using mobile carne is quite common.

During your inspection, you observed that there was no specific area allocated for flammable
materials, no designated walkways and pedestrian crossing points has been provided. Forklift
operators found over speeding in spite of the speed limit signs clearly displayed.

While talking to staff, you were told of a recent accident that occurred where a lifting operation
had taken place using a mobile cane. The workers failed to use tag lines and were pushing and
guiding the load with their own hands. Moreover, the rigger failed to identify the damaged sling
due to lack of pre-inspection, the damaged sling broke and the load fell on the hand of one of the
worker and crushed it.

EMS (emergency medical service) has been called and worker was transported to nearest
hospital. Due to extent of injury and multiple fracture worker expected to remain off work for 2
months. Since accident happened at workplace, worker is seeking compensation claim.

Due to this incident, the enforcement agency officer visited your site and made particular
recommendations including training for forklift operators, fitting speed limiters on forklifts,
segregation of vehicle and pedestrian. The officer stressed on the use of procedures such as
Permit to work, pre-inspection of lifting accessories, responsibilities of riggers training etc..

During consultation with workers, poor management response to worker’s complaints has been
observed. In the meeting you tried to talk to the operation manager that the safety standard of the
company needs to be improved and management have to lead by example. You tried to remind
management of their legal responsibilities. The operation manager responded by saying that
company is not doing well and there is no budget allocated for the safety improvements and that
they would not prioritise safety as they are having a lot of production delays.

Questions: (All answers should be in relation to the scenario)

Q1: What legal arguments can you use to justify the proposed recommendations to train forklift
operators, provide designated pedestrian and use PTW for lifting activities?

Q2: While looking at the accident data you have observed that lot of accidents are occurring but
now near misses are being reported or recorded.

a. What can be the possible reason why workers did not report near misses?
b. How near miss reporting within the organisation can be improved?

Q3: As a part of long-term safety standard improvement plan, you have suggested management
to go for ISO 45001:2018 certification.
Identify what are the possible arguments that you can use to convince management to make this
happen?

Q4: As improvement suggestion given by enforcement officer, what are the various factors you
will consider while implementing PTW system for lifting activities?

Q5: By keeping in mind the recent incident happened in the organisation, describe the possible
steps you will follow to conduct investigation?

Q6: What are the possible organisation factors contributed to the mobile crane accident and
moreover influenced workers behaviour?

Q7: What are the possible ways which management can use to show visible commitment towards
health and safety?

Q8: As it is mentioned in the scenario that speed limit signs are already in place to communicate
the safe speed limit, even then forklift operators have been observed doing over speeding. What
can the possible reason behind this unsafe behaviour?

Q9: What are the possible factors you will consider before arranging the training for forklift
operator?

Q10: In order to improve the effectiveness of workplace inspection, you decided to create a
checklist to aid you during the inspection. What can be the possible benefits of using checklist
during inspection?

You might also like