BOSH SO2 study plan

Distinguish hazard from risk and apply a five-step risk assessment process to three worked scenarios covering physical, chemical and ergonomic hazards

Build a hierarchy-of-controls decision table that maps at least eight control options to the hazards they best address

Explain the difference between likelihood, severity and residual risk, and calculate a simple risk score for each scenario

Identify the exposure routes (inhalation, ingestion, dermal, injection) for five common workplace substances and state the control that interrupts each route

Classify at least twelve workplace hazards into physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic and psychosocial categories with a control for each

Describe the health effects and exposure limits concept for noise, vibration, heat and dust

Explain how ergonomic risk factors such as repetition, force, posture and duration combine to cause musculoskeletal injury

Outline the main psychosocial hazard categories and one organisational control for each

Select and justify monitoring methods (air sampling, noise dosimetry, thermal assessment, ergonomic screening) for six hazards

Evaluate the effectiveness of controls using the hierarchy and identify at least three common control failures

Apply the principles of prevention to a task involving hazardous chemicals and propose substitution or engineering options

Explain how to communicate residual risk and required precautions to a work team in plain language

Compare the plan-do-check-act cycle with the core elements of a recognised occupational health and safety management system

Map the legal duties of employer, employee and self-employed person onto a sample organisation chart

Explain the role of policy, leadership commitment, worker consultation and competence in a management system

Identify the documentation a management system needs (policy, risk assessments, records, procedures) and the retention logic for each

Apply an incident investigation method to a described event, separating immediate causes from root causes

Distinguish incident, accident, near miss and dangerous occurrence, and state which require recording or reporting

Draft an emergency response plan covering fire, chemical release and medical emergency, including roles and evacuation routes

Design a post-emergency review that feeds lessons back into risk assessment and training

Define leading and lagging performance indicators and select four of each for a sample workplace

Design an audit or inspection checklist that tests implementation, not just documentation

Explain how health surveillance, exposure monitoring and wellbeing programmes differ in purpose and legal basis

Identify the main causes of work-related stress, fatigue and mental ill health, and one intervention at each level of prevention

Explain how to pre-qualify a contractor on competence, insurance, method statements and past performance

Describe how to control contractor risk through induction, permits, supervision and handover

Identify the environmental impacts of a chosen work activity and apply the waste hierarchy to reduce them

Explain how sustainability measures such as energy, water and material efficiency also reduce health and safety risk

Consolidate all domains by working through a full-length practice paper under timed conditions

Review every incorrect answer and trace it back to the relevant domain and source concept

Revisit the three weakest domains and produce a one-page summary of the key facts and decision rules for each

Rehearse explaining the hierarchy of controls and the risk assessment process aloud in under five minutes each