CSCS Leadership & Management (MAP) Questions
Managers & Professionals test: leading safe working.
These questions cover leadership & management (map) for the CITB Health, Safety and Environment (HS&E) test, the exam UK construction workers pass to get a CSCS card.
Leadership & Management (MAP): practice quiz
- 20 questions · 30 minutes · pass mark 90%
- Answers and explanations are shown at the end, with every question to review.
- A fresh 20 questions every time, drawn from all 122 in this topic's bank. Includes 2 select-two questions, as in the real test.
- About 90 seconds a question, against about 54 in the real test, so there is time to think.
10 sample Leadership & Management (MAP) questions and answers
These 10 come from the 122 questions the practice quiz above draws from, written out with the correct answer and the reasoning behind it. Read them through when you want to revise rather than test yourself.
1. Regulation 5(1) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 names the elements an employer's health and safety arrangements must cover. Which set does it actually list?
Answer: Planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of the measures
- A) Design, procurement, installation, commissioning and handover of the works
- B) Costing, tendering, programming, invoicing and final account settlement
- C) Consultation, election, balloting, inspection and prosecution of offenders
- D) Planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of the measures (correct answer)
Why: Regulation 5(1) requires arrangements for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of the preventive and protective measures. Supervisors sit mainly in the control and monitoring parts of that list, but they need to recognise all five. The other options describe commercial or design processes, which regulation 5 does not mention.
2. A supervisor's gang is working alongside a public footpath that stays open. Which duty in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 covers members of the public passing the works?
Answer: Section 3(1), on conducting the undertaking so others are not put at risk
- A) Section 37, on offences committed by a company and its senior officers
- B) Section 2(1), on the health, safety and welfare of the employees at work
- C) Section 7, on the personal duty an employee owes while he is at work
- D) Section 3(1), on conducting the undertaking so others are not put at risk (correct answer)
Why: Section 3(1) requires every employer to conduct the undertaking so that, so far as is reasonably practicable, persons not in his employment who may be affected are not exposed to risks to health or safety. Section 2 is limited to employees, section 7 imposes duties on individual employees, and section 37 concerns personal liability of officers.
3. Regulation 8(5) of CDM 2015 applies to a person working on a project under the control of another. What does it require that person to do?
Answer: Report anything likely to endanger their own or another person's safety
- A) Report anything likely to endanger their own or another person's safety (correct answer)
- B) Halt work across the site until the client has been formally notified
- C) Record the matter in a personal notebook and produce it when asked
- D) Notify the enforcing authority in writing within ten working days
Why: Regulation 8(5) requires a person working under another's control to report to that person anything they are aware of in relation to the project that is likely to endanger their own health or safety or that of others. It is a reporting up duty, aimed at the person in control. It does not require a site shutdown, a private record or a direct report to the regulator.
4. To manage the construction phase, what does HSE's CDM 2015 guidance say a principal contractor must ensure?
Answer: Workers are capable, risks are controlled, and the right plant and tools are provided
- A) The client signs off every method statement before any trade is allowed to start work
- B) Every contractor on site uses the same supplier for plant and personal protective kit
- C) The site is visited by an HSE inspector before the first concrete pour takes place
- D) Workers are capable, risks are controlled, and the right plant and tools are provided (correct answer)
Why: L153 paragraph 125 says that to manage the construction phase principal contractors must ensure those engaged are capable of doing the work, effective preventive and protective measures control the risks, and the right plant, equipment and tools are provided.
5. An office has a management asbestos survey. The client now plans work that will disturb the fabric of the building. What does HSE's HSG264 say?
Answer: A refurbishment survey is needed where the management survey was not intrusive
- A) The management survey is enough, as long as it was carried out within five years
- B) No survey is needed if the contractor's workers hold asbestos awareness cards
- C) The contractor may carry on and simply stop work if it finds anything suspicious
- D) A refurbishment survey is needed where the management survey was not intrusive (correct answer)
Why: HSG264 paragraph 50 says management surveys cover routine and simple maintenance, and that a refurbishment survey will be required for all work which disturbs the fabric of the building in areas where the management survey has not been intrusive.
6. According to INDG417, what responsibility do members of a company board have for health and safety?
Answer: Both collective and individual responsibility
- A) Collective responsibility only, as a whole board
- B) None, unless they are the named safety director
- C) Individual responsibility only, not collective
- D) Both collective and individual responsibility (correct answer)
Why: INDG417 says directors can be personally liable when duties are breached and that members of the board have both collective and individual responsibility for health and safety.
7. According to HSG245, what has been found in workplaces with full cooperation and consultation with union representatives and employees?
Answer: Half as many accidents as workplaces with no such employee involvement
- A) Twice as many minor injury reports, so far more paperwork overall
- B) No measurable difference in the number of accidents recorded
- C) Investigations take twice as long, so they are best kept small
- D) Half as many accidents as workplaces with no such employee involvement (correct answer)
Why: HSG245 says that, as well as being a legal duty, it has been found that where there is full cooperation and consultation with union representatives and employees, the number of accidents is half that of workplaces with no such involvement.
8. As part of the hand-back procedure at the end of permit work, which question does HSG250 say must be answered?
Answer: Has the plant been returned to a safe condition, including removing isolations?
- A) Has the job been finished within the price agreed in the original contract?
- B) Have the workers on the job signed the site attendance register that day?
- C) Has the client been sent an invoice for the work done under the permit?
- D) Has the plant been returned to a safe condition, including removing isolations? (correct answer)
Why: HSG250 paragraph 24 lists hand-back questions: whether the work is complete, whether the plant has been returned to a safe condition by removing isolations and this has been verified, and whether operational control has been acknowledged.
9. How does HSE's CDM 2015 guidance say health and safety information and instructions should be written?
Answer: In simple, clear English or other languages where needed, in a logical order
- A) In full legal wording, so that nobody can argue about what it means at a later date
- B) As long and detailed as possible, so that the points are covered in full
- C) In the format the writer prefers, as long as a copy is kept on file
- D) In simple, clear English or other languages where needed, in a logical order (correct answer)
Why: L153 paragraph 70 says information or instructions should be in simple, clear English and/or other languages where appropriate, set out in a logical order with illustrations where appropriate, and that unnecessary information can obscure key messages.
10. After a serious incident, an inspector tells the site manager to leave the scene as it is. Which power in section 20 of the 1974 Act is this?
Answer: Directing that premises or anything in them be left undisturbed for the investigation
- A) Taking possession of the site and closing it permanently to all workers and all visitors
- B) Requiring the manager to rebuild the scene so that photographs can be taken later
- C) Serving a prohibition notice on every activity carried on by the company anywhere
- D) Directing that premises or anything in them be left undisturbed for the investigation (correct answer)
Why: Section 20(2)(e) lets an inspector direct that premises, any part of them, or anything in them be left undisturbed for as long as reasonably necessary for an examination or investigation.
What this topic covers in the CSCS test
This is the Managers and Professionals (MAP) side of the HS&E test. CITB sets it in five sections: legal and management, occupational health, wellbeing and welfare, general safety, high risk activities, and environment. It is not the Supervisory specialist test, which is built instead on the five core Operatives areas plus a specialist section. It asks less about what a hazard looks like and more about what you do with authority: who holds which duty under CDM 2015, what you stop, and what has to be written down. The right answer usually has a competent person deciding and a record left behind.
- CDM 2015 duty holders: client, principal designer, principal contractor, contractor and worker
- The F10 notification, the construction phase plan and the health and safety file
- Risk assessments and method statements, and when the law requires them in writing
- Induction, competence checks, supervision and refusing site access
- Permits to work, what they authorise, and leaving a job safe at the end of a shift
- Toolbox talks, near-miss reporting and incident investigation
- Leading indicators as well as accident figures
Key facts worth memorising
- Notifiable projects
- A project must be notified to HSE if the work will last longer than 30 working days with more than 20 workers on site at once, or exceed 500 person days. The client gives the notice.
- Who writes the plan
- The principal contractor, or the sole contractor, prepares and updates the construction phase plan. The principal designer prepares the health and safety file where there is more than one contractor.
- Record before you break
- CDM 2015 regulation 20 requires the arrangements for demolition or dismantling to be recorded in writing before that work begins.
- Five or more
- Every employer must make a suitable and sufficient risk assessment, and where five or more people are employed the significant findings must be recorded.
- A permit does not make a job safe
- HSE says so plainly. A permit states what work is allowed, when, and what has been made safe, and the people doing the job sign it.
- Plan, Do, Check, Act
- HSG65 sets out the cycle. The Check stage expects preventive information such as training progress alongside incident data such as accident and sickness absence rates.
What people get wrong
Only a worker's own employer can stop their work.
Under CDM 2015 regulation 15(3), where there is more than one contractor each must comply with the principal contractor's directions. Unsafe work gets stopped first and the employer sorted out after, not the other way round.
The client draws up the construction phase plan.
The client must make sure a plan exists before the construction phase begins, but preparing it is the principal contractor's duty. The client's own documents are the F10 and the pre-construction information.
Programme pressure can justify starting before induction.
It cannot. Operatives must be inducted and competent before they start. A critical-path job is a reason to arrange the induction quickly, not to skip it.
Accident figures are the best measure of how safe a site is.
Accident rates only tell you what has already gone wrong. HSE's Plan, Do, Check, Act guidance asks for preventive information, such as progress of training and maintenance programmes, to be given appropriate weight alongside incident data such as accident and sickness absence rates.
Answering these questions in the test
These questions are scenario-based, and the wrong options are the commercially convenient ones: carry on, speed up, sort it later. Read for two things. First, who holds the duty, because CDM 2015 splits duties between client, principal designer, principal contractor and contractor. Second, what gets written down, because the law keeps demanding a record. Where two answers both look responsible, pick the one that stops the work, brings in a competent person and leaves a record. The test is 50 questions in 45 minutes with a pass mark of 45.
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Sources
Written from the following. Where a figure could not be verified against one of these, it has been left out rather than approximated. Our sources and methodology explains how we date and re-check them. Spotted something wrong? Report an error and we will fix it.
- hse.gov.uk/construction/cdm/faq/index.htm
- hse.gov.uk/construction/safetytopics/admin.htm
- legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/51/regulation/20/made
- hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/risk/steps-needed-to-manage-risk.htm
- hse.gov.uk/simple-health-safety/training/supervision.htm
- hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/ptw.htm
- hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/hsg65.htm
- hse.gov.uk/leadership/plan-do-check-act/check.htm
- citb.co.uk/courses-tests/health-safety-and-environment-hse-test/managers-and-professionals-test
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