Beekeeping Health and Safety Quiz

Quiz 1 - Health and Safety Quiz

This is a 12 question multiple choice quiz, select the correct answers!

Why is it important to conduct your beekeeping practices in a safe manner?
1. For the health of your bees
2. For your own health and safety
3. For the safety of other people and property
4. For the health and safety of you, your bees, other people, and property.
Who is responsible for Health and Safety in your apiary?
1. The Health and Safety Executive.
2. Anyone who visits the apiary is responsible for their own safety.
3. You the beekeeper are responsible for everyones Health and Safety in your apiary.
4. You and other beekeepers only.
Which of these species has a stinger - Bumblebee, Honeybees, Wasps, Hornets?
1. Wasps, Hornets, and Honeybees.
2. Honeybees, Bumblebees, Wasps.
3. Hornets, Wasps, Honeybees.
4. They all have a stinger.
Which species has a stinger that detaches after stinging?
1. Wasps
2. Bumblebees
3. Honeybees
4. Hornets
Who is most likely to be severely effected by a bee sting?
1. Someone who is pre-disposed to allergic reactions.
2. Everyone is likely to have a severe reaction.
3. Only people who have never been stung before are at risk of a severe reaction.
4. Everyone who suffers from hay fever are likely to have a severe reaction.
Who is at risk of being stung during beekeeping activities?
1. Only the beekeeper.
2. Everyone in and around the apiary.
3. Only people in the apiary.
4. Only people in close proximity of the hives.
What are the other risks in the apiary besides stings?
1. Slips trips and falls, strains, and ruptires.
2. Strains, fire, ingesting or inhaling hazardous substances.
3. Slips trips and falls, strains, fire, and ingesting or inhaling hazardous substances.
4. Slips, trips and falls, strains.
What are the steps to risk assessment in your apiary?
1. Identify the hazards
  Control the risk
  Review your assessment
2. Identifty the risks
  Who is at risk
  Control the risks
  Make a record
  Review your Assessment
3. Who is at risk
  Control the risks
  Make a record
  Restrict access to your apiary
4. Review your Assessment
  Identify the risks
  Control the risks
  Warn people
Before carrying out beekeeping activities in the apiary, what precautions should you take?
1. Ensure that you and anyone else in the apiary is bee-proof by wearing the correct PPE, and that there are no personnel or animals in the vicinity.
2. Only work with your bees on warm sunny days.
3. Warn people in the vicinity that your going to be working with your bees.
4. Only work in the apiary at the weekends.
Beekeeping Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) consists of what?
1. A hat with a veil and gloves.
2. A hat with a veil, gloves, and boots.
3. A bee suit and boots.
4. A hat, veil, bee-suit, gloves and suitable footwear such a welly boots.
How do you minimise the risks from using the smoker?
1. Exercise care when using it in dry conditions, do not leave unattended, ensure it is extinguished and corked before puting it back in the car.
2. Only use it in wet or cold weather or when the bees are in angry mood.
3. Burn the hottest fuel in the smoker to keep it alight and to scare the bees.
4. Use fire lighters to get it going then fill ot with highly combustable fuel to create heat.
What is the best practice when using chemicals and products on your bees?
1. Only use approved products and keep them under the sink when not in use.
2. Only use approved products and recommended proceedures, and throw away when finished.
3. Only use approved products and their recommended procedures, store and dispose of products in the recommended safe manner.
4. Only use approved products and recommended procedures, store correctly and dispose of products by flushing down the drain.

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Quiz 1 - Health and Safety Quiz

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