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    NEBOSH

    Do – Controlling workplace health issues (International)

    UNIT ID2:
    For: NEBOSH International Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety
    Management Professionals

    General note about this sample assessment


    Please note that this is a sample assessment, designed to be illustrative of the tasks learners will
    face. It is therefore not a complete paper; the scenario is much shorter and it does not contain
    as many tasks as a live paper will have. A full paper will have 300 marks available.
    This sample also uses supporting documents. We would provide (or give references to, if readily
    available from authoritative internet sources) supporting documents and expect learners to be able
    to select and use relevant information from them).

    Scenario extract
    You work for an old, well established chemical company that manufactures specialist paint products. These
    paints are made by mixing many different raw materials together in large (25,000 litre) cylindrical mix tanks. One
    of the main products, Saxum42, contains a high proportion of Raw Material A (RMA), which is supplied in 25kg
    plastic sacks. To add RMA to the Saxum42 mix, a worker stands on a platform and rests a sack over the lip of
    an open hatch at the top of the mix tank. Using a knife, they cut open the end of the sack and empty the contents
    into the tank. The empty sacks are piled up on the platform next to the hatch.

    There is a local exhaust ventilation (LEV) hood directly above the hatch and you have seen that sometimes the
    worker loses their grip, and the nearly empty sacks get sucked up into the LEV system. It can be difficult to tell
    whether this affects the LEV performance because the workplace is quite noisy, with lots of other manufacturing
    operations going on close by. Workers wear thick rubber gloves, cotton overalls and rubber boots. Workers also
    wear ‘dust masks’ because the LEV can end up creating a lot of turbulence and sucking RMA upwards towards
    the worker’s upper body.

    Supporting documents:
    - Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for RMA. In this example, the SDS would indicate, amongst other things, that
    RMA is a very fine powder form of silica with a significant component of respirable crystalline silica (RCS).
    Also shown would be the actual percentage of RCS.
    - Air monitoring results for RMA. A table of air monitoring results for given time frames, indicating, for
    example that they are static measurements (rather than personal).
    - EH40 – workplace exposure limits. This is an example of national exposure limit standards; regardless
    of your country-specific exposure limit standards, please use these for the purposes of this exam
    - SDS for RMB. We’d show that RMB is a concentrated slurry version (say, 50%) of RMA.

    Task 1: Use and control of substances hazardous to health

    1. Based on the scenario and relevant supporting documents, evaluate the existing arrangements used for
    the addition of RMA to the Saxum42 mix tank against ‘Operational Control Measures’ (Chapter 6 of the
    International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Code of Practice ‘Safety in the Use of Chemicals at Work’) and
    ‘Prevention and Control’ (Chapter 4.3 of the ILO’s Code of Practice ‘Ambient Factors in the
    Workplace’). (15)

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    Task 2: Workplace exposure limits

    2. You have contracted an air monitoring service to take some measurements of the concentration of RMA
    near the tank hatch.

    Using relevant supporting documents, calculate any relevant Time Weighted Average (TWA)
    concentrations and comment on their significance. (15)

    Task 3: Substitution of hazardous substances


    3. You are reviewing the process and, amongst other things, have suggested some changes to the Saxum42
    production process. You are considering one of the following options:

    Option 1: adding RMA using an enclosed screw-feeder from a bulk storage container.
    Option 2: replacing RMA with Raw Material B (RMB) and using a dedicated pipeline or flexible hose from
    a separate bulk container.

    Based on the scenario and relevant supporting documents, discuss the merits and limitations of these two
    options. (20)

    The above are just a range of questions we might ask. Alternative/additional questions could also explore the
    issues of LEV performance, manual handling, noise etc. in an integrated way.

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