Safety and Health quiz

PPE stands for...

• Privacy protective equipment

• Personal protective environment

• Personal protective equipment

• Protective personnel equipment

PPEs protect against different hazards. These include..

• Airborne droplets

• Sharp knives and instruments

• Bodily fluids such as blood or saliva

• Harmful chemicals and solvents

• Slips, trips and falls

The safety data sheet contains all the relevant information regarding hazardous substances, including emergency procedures in the event of contact. Where should it be stored?

• As high possible away from children

• In the most assessible place for all

• In the principal's office

• In the yard where slips trips and falls happen the most

• In the caretaker's toolbox

Hazardous substances can be brought into the school or from biological origins such as humans. It can also be a by-product of activities. What does that mean?

• The equipment left over from PE after all the children have selected something

• The new safer methods to conduct experiments

• The hazardous waste, residue or fumes that activities can generate

• The hazardous chemicals that are listed in a document

Answer explanation

By-products that are hazardous can be produced from experiments, and also include sawdust from woodwork, or simply steam from boiling water.

Which one of these are not normally found in a first-aid kit

• Triangular bandages

• Medical shears

• Safety goggles

• Wound dressings

• Anti-bacterial soap

Routes of infection are...

• The way or manner infections can transmit

• Guidelines and methods for preventing infection

• Normally treated with antibiotics

• A pyramid of infection severity

• The steps you take when you suspect someone is ill

Which one of these is not part of typical school emergency measures against infections?

• Ringing parents to come collect the child

• Informing management of a suspected illness

• Disinfecting the child's surroundings when they have left

• Reporting the case to the HSA for record keeping purposes

• Isolate the child in a designated area