Safety Quiz
All the questions in this quiz are about safety, including health and safety and inventions.
Questions
- In January of which year, did the UK law requiring all drivers and front seat passengers to wear seatbelts come into force?
- What does the well known acronym RoSPA stand for?
- Which material once considered ideal for use in the construction industry was fully banned in the UK on August 24, 1999?
- In 2011, what did Bridlington’s local council ban on the beach for 'health and safety reasons'?
- The first what, was patented in England in 1723 by Ambrose Godfrey?
- What did Disney ban from its theme parks over safety concerns in 2015?
- What sort of poisoning, often in the home, can be mistaken for a cold or flu?
- Due to safety reasons, what was cancelled in 2008, held from 2009 to 2019 in South America and moved to Saudi Arabia in 2020?
- For a fire to burn, all three elements of the fire triangle must be present, this includes heat, fuel and what else?
- What manoeuvre is a first aid procedure used to treat choking by foreign objects involving abdominal thrusts?
- What does the abbreviation HSE stand for?
- It's a dangerous medical condition that needs immediate treatment, what does the term 'hypoglycaemia' means?
- The World Health Organisation recommends the use of what 'N' number masks for protection against coronavirus? (We need a two digit number.)
- On January 7, 1990, which European landmark was closed to the public for health and safety reasons?
- By law, over 50 percent of a UK hazard sign must be what colour?
- Sir Humphry Davy's invention is thought to have saved as many as 500,000 lives worldwide and is still in use today, what was it?
- Are electrical fires best tackled with a water fire extinguisher, a CO2 extinguisher, a foam extinguisher, or a wet chemical fire extinguisher?
- In the UK in 1990, what was the name of the report that recommended for safety reasons that all major stadiums convert to all-seater stadiums?
- Elisha Otis invented a safety device that prevented what from falling?
- What is safest to use in hot air balloons, helium or hydrogen?
- Beth Tweddle fractured vertebrae and fellow Olympian Rebecca Adlington dislocated her shoulder on which sports reality TV show?
- What road safety device was patented in 1934 by Percy Shaw of Boothtown, Halifax, West Yorkshire?
- The Workplace Regulations 1992 defines a reasonable temperature indoors in the workplace as being normally 'at least' what temperature in degrees Celsius?
- By UK law all gas engineers must be on the Gas Safe Register, what did the Gas Safe Register replace as the gas registration body in 2009?
- First used in the UK in 1958 when the M6 motorway opened, what was patended by American Charles Scanlon a painter for the Los Angeles Street Painting Department, in 1943?
- According to the 2021 Global Peace Index, which country is the safest country in the world for the 12th year in a row?
Answers:
- 1983
- The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
- Asbestos
- Kite flying
- First fire extinguisher
- Selfie sticks
- Carbon monoxide
- Dakar Rally (moved due to security threats in Mauritania)
- Oxygen
- Heimlich manoeuvre
- Health & Safety Executive
- Low sugar (glucose) levels in the blood
- N95
- Leaning Tower of Pisa
- Yellow or amber
- Miners' safety lamp
- A CO2 fire extinguisher (C02 is carbon dioxide)
- Taylor Report
- Lifts or elevators (from falling if the hoisting cable fails)
- Helium is safer
- The Jump
- Cat's Eyes
- 16 degree Celsius
- CORGI (The Council for Registered Gas Installers)
- Traffic cones
- Iceland