Workplace safety, health and environment
This domain tests whether you can identify motorcycle workshop hazards and control them before work starts. Examiners look for hazard recognition, correct PPE, safe fuel and battery handling, fire response and lawful waste disposal, not slogans.
Core controls
- Wear safety glasses when using compressed air, grinding or handling battery acid; nitrile gloves for oils and solvents; steel-toe boots for tyre and engine work.
- Keep fuel in approved containers and never use petrol as a cleaning solvent. Bond and earth metal containers when decanting.
- Store batteries upright in a ventilated area; charge with caps in place and switch the charger off before connecting or disconnecting.
- Use CO2 or dry powder on petrol fires. Water spreads burning fuel.
- Extract exhaust gas with a hose at the tailpipe; carbon monoxide is odourless.
- Segregate used oil, filters, batteries, tyres and solvent rags. Used oil goes to a licensed collector, never the drain.
Worked example
A carburettor is removed and fuel spills across the bench and floor. Reason it out: stop the source, remove ignition sources, ventilate, contain with absorbent, seal contaminated absorbent in a metal container, clean with detergent and record the spill. Do not wash it into the floor drain.
Traps
Using compressed air to clean brake dust, which makes it airborne; wearing loose gloves near a rotating sprocket; opening a hot radiator; storing acid and solvent together; leaving a spill unmarked.