0 NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SCIENCES

QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

QUALIFICATION CODE: 08 BEHS LEVEL: 8

COURSE: Occupational Health and Safety 4 COURSE CODE: OHS811S

DATE: JUNE 2018 SESSION: SEMESTER 1, 2018 DURATION: 3 HOURS MARKS: 100

FIRST OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER

EXAMINER BUHLEBENKOSI MPOFU

MODERATOR | MR JAMELA DUBE

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Answer ALL the questions.

2. Write clearly and neatly.

3. Number the answers clearly.

PERMISSIBLE MATERIALS

NONE

THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 4 PAGES

(Including this front page)

QUESTION 1

SECTION A [20]

Match the concepts in Column A to their most correct definition in Column B. Write on your

answer sheet the concept number and the letter representing the correct definition.

Column A Column B

1.1 | Inspection A formally concluded and ratified agreement between

states

1.2 | Convention Representing employees during consultative meetings

on health and safety issues with the employer

1.3 | Risk assessment An agreement between states covering particular

matters.

1.4 | Hazard This is the general policy on health and safety at work.

It sets out your commitment to managing health

and safety effectively, and what you want to achieve

1.5 | Unsafe Condition International Labour Organization

Enforcement

1.6

A systematic procedure aimed at the recognition of

actual as well as potential health and safety hazards at

various workplaces

1.7 | Statement of Intent An object, substance, act or condition with the

potential to cause an incident, accident or loss.

1.8 | ILO Job factors are unsafe or sub-standard conditions

found in the work environment

1.9 | Treaty A function aimed at protecting organizations, their

people, assets and the environment from the adverse

effects of risk. It follows this procedure

representatives 2.0 | Health and Safety An attempt by to compel observance or obedience of

set laws and regulations.

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QUESTION 2

Differentiate the following:

2.1. Post sickness Health Assessment and Periodic Health Assessment.

2.2. Pre- Placement Health Assessment and Exit Health Assessment.

2.3. Audit and Inspection.

SECTION B

QUESTION 3

3.1. State any seven (7) reasons why accidents are caused in the workplace.

3.2. Explain why OHS audits are important in any organization.

3.3. Discuss briefly any five (5) functions of Inspectors as alluded to in the Namibian

Labour Act 11 of 2007.

3.4. You have been employed by PASCON Paints Pty Ltd as a Safety Practitioner, the

management is not sure if implementing ISO 18000 will be of any benefit to the

organization. Explain to the management the benefits that this system will bring

to the organization.

SECTION C

QUESTION 4

4.1 Read the following narrative below and answer the question that follow:

[10]

[4]

[4]

[2]

[35]

[7]

[8]

[10]

[10]

[45]

Mr. Williams is the owner of a company that produces trailers. He is a stingy person who does

not like to spend too much money. For this reason, refuses to buy protective eye gear for his

employees who use angle grinders to smoothen off the welded areas on the trailers.

Mr. France is the Chief Executive Officer of the company. He is an excellent accountant and a

hard worker but not very mechanically minded, has absolutely no idea that protective eye

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gear is required. Robert has been appointed as assistant and he knows that the protective

eye gear is necessary, but he does nothing to inform Mr. France.

Robert’s duties include monitoring health and safety at the factory. Jasonisa fitter and turner

and an employee of the company and he is not sure if he should use protective eye gear.

While Jason is using the angle grinder a piece of metal becomes lodged in his left eye and

does not tell anyone about it. Several days later an infection develops in Jason’s eye and

consequently the eye must be removed.

a) Clarify which duties Williams, as employer, failed to fulfil in terms of the Labour Act of

2007? Discuss only those duties, which are relevant to the facts given.

[10 marks]

4.2. Read the following narrative below and answer the question that follow:

Mr Shikongo owns a small-time shoe manufacturing business. He has indicated to you as the

Safety Officer that he is serious about Health and Safety in his organization and he wants

you to help him come up with a Health and Safety Policy for the Shoe Business. Outline how

you would advise him to:

a) Develop the Health and Safety Policy [6]

b) What the Health and Safety policy should include. [10]

c) Tips for putting the Health and safety Policy into action. [8]

d) What major components are in the Policy. [6]

TOTAL MARKS = 100

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