CSCS Highways Mock Test

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Highway Works

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How should you protect a portable traffic-light cable that crosses a road?

A cable crossing protector must be used with ramp warning signs

It should be placed in a slot cut into the road surface

It can be unprotected if it is less than 10 mm in diameter

It should be secured firmly to the road surface

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How must highway signs, lights and guarding equipment be properly secured?

By built-in weights where possible

By iron weights suspended from the frame by chains or other strong material

By roping them to concrete blocks or kerb stones

By pushing them securely into the soft verge

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What is the minimum traffic management required when carrying out a short-term minor maintenance job in a quiet, low-speed side road?

The same as required for a road excavation

Temporary traffic lights

Five cones and a blue arrow

A flashing amber beacon and a keep left or right arrow

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Which is not an approved means of controlling traffic at roadworks?

Police supervision

Hand signals by operatives

A give-and-take system

Priority signs

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Where would you find information about working on a dual carriageway with a speed limit above 40 mph?

In the Traffic Signs Manual (Chapter 8)

In the Blue Book

In the Pink Book

In the welfare cabin

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How often must a competent person thoroughly examine lifting equipment for lifting persons (for example, a cherry picker)?

Every 6 months

Every 18 months

Every 24 months

Every 12 months

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In which of the following circumstances can someone enter the safety zone?

To park site vehicles

To store unused plant

To store materials

To maintain cones and signs

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What action is required if a vehicle detector on temporary traffic lights becomes defective?

Switch the lights off until the supervisor arrives on site

Control traffic at the defective end using hand signals

Operate on all-red and call the service engineer

Operate on fixed time or manual and call the service engineer

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What should be used to protect the public from a shallow excavation in a public footway?

Pins and bunting

Cones

Nothing

Barriers with tapping rails

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Which two site conditions must be met before traffic management can be reduced to the minimum requirements?

Traffic is heavy

There are double yellow lines

Visibility is good

It is a period of low risk

There is a footpath

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How must signs on footways be located?

So that they do not create a hazard for pedestrians

So that they block the footway

So that they can be read by site personnel

So that they can be easily removed

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What action is required where passing traffic may block the view of highways signs?

Additional signs must be placed in advance of the works

Signs must be placed higher

Signs must be duplicated on both sides of the road

Signs must be larger

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What is the main reason why temporary highways signing needs to be removed when works are completed?

To allow the road to be opened fully

To reuse signs on new jobs

It gets traffic flowing

It is a legal requirement

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Why is it necessary to wear hi-vis clothing when working on roads?

Because it will keep you warm

To protect clothes worn underneath from damage

So your supervisor can see you

So road users and plant operators can see you

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When using lifting equipment, such as a cherry picker, lorry loader or excavator, how should you follow the indicated safe working load?

It is a guide figure that may be exceeded slightly

It may be exceeded by 10% only

It gives half the maximum weight to be lifted

It must never be exceeded

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When should installed highways signs and guarding equipment be inspected?

No more frequently than once a week

Regularly, and at least once every day, including when the site is unattended

Every hour, except when the site is unattended

Immediately after it has been used

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When it is necessary to tip into an excavation, what is the preferred method of preventing the vehicle getting too close to the edge?

Signage

Signaller

Stop blocks

Driver's experience

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What must you do when getting off plant and vehicles?

Look before you jump, then jump down facing the vehicle

Use a pair of steps which allow you to climb out of the vehicle

Use the wheels and tyres for access

Use the designated access and egress point whilst maintaining three points of contact with the vehicle

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What must you do before towing a trailer fitted with independent brakes?

Make sure it is possible to drive at a maximum speed of 25 mph along the route you have chosen

Fit a cable that applies the trailer's brakes if the tow hitch fails

Use a rope to secure the trailer to the tow hitch

Fit a safety chain

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What should you do with materials that have to be kept on site overnight?

Put pins and bunting around them

Stack them safely and in a secure area

Only stack them on the grass verge

Don't stack them above 2 m high

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You are moving or laying slabs, paving blocks or Kerbs on site. Which two of the following methods would be classed as manual handling?

Using a two-man scissor lifter

Using a scissor lifter attachment on an excavator

Using a suction lifter attached to an excavator

Using a crane with fork attachment

Using a trolley or sack barrow

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If you are driving any plant that may overturn, when must a seat belt be worn?

When you are carrying passengers

When travelling over rough ground

At all times

When the vehicle is loaded

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When providing portable traffic signals on roads used by cyclists, what action should you take?

Use stop-and-go boards only

Operate the signals manually

Allow more time for slow-moving traffic by increasing the all-red phase of the signals

Locate the signals at bends in the road

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When can you carry authorised passengers in vehicles?

Only if a suitable secure seat is provided for each of them

Only if your supervisor gives you permission

Only if you have a full driving licence

Only when off the public highway

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A single vehicle is being used to carry out mobile highway works during the day. What sign or symbol must be clearly displayed on or at the rear of the vehicle?

A specific task warning sign (for example, gully cleaning)

A road narrows sign (left or right)

A keep left or right arrow

A roadworks ahead sign

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Which checks should the operator of a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) (for example, a cherry picker) carry out before using it?

That emergency systems operate correctly

That a seat belt is provided for the operator

That a roll-over cage is fitted

That the hydraulic system is drained

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When should you switch on the amber flashing beacon fitted to your highways vehicle?

Only in poor visibility

When travelling to and from the depot

When it is being used as a works vehicle

At all times

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What is not usually something to consider while undertaking a site-specific risk assessment before starting highway works?

The amount and type of traffic

The type and size of the road

The cost of the sub-contractor who will be carrying out the work

The effect of different weather conditions

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What traffic management is required when carrying out a maintenance job on a motorway?

A scheme installed by a registered traffic management contractor

A flashing beacon and a keep left or right sign

The same as would be required on a single carriageway

Ten 1 m high cones and a 1 m high 'men working' sign

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If a safety cut-out on a machine does not operate, what should you do?

Stop and report it immediately to your supervisor

Report it at the end of the shift

Keep quiet in case you get the blame

Try and fix it or repair it yourself

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What action is required where it is not possible to maintain the correct safety zone?

Place additional advance signing

Stop work and consult your supervisor

Use extra cones on the lead-in taper

Barrier off the working space

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What should you do if you are the driver of a vehicle and lose sight of the vehicle marshaller while reversing your vehicle?

Find someone else to watch you reverse safely

Continue reversing slowly

Continue reversing, as long as your vehicle is equipped with a klaxon and flashing lights

Stop and locate the vehicle marshaller

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You are working on a dual carriageway with a 60-mph speed limit although you are not in the working space. What is the minimum standard of hi-vis clothing that you must wear?

Reflective long-sleeved jacket

Reflective hard hat

Reflective sash

Reflective waistcoat

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Which of these is the safest method of operating a machine under electrical power lines when it has an extending jib or boom?

Let down the tyres on the machine to increase the clearance

Place a warning notice on the machine

Erect signs to warn drivers while they are operating the machines

Adapt the machine to limit the extension of the jib or boom

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When working after dark, is mobile plant exempt from the requirement to show lights?

Not in any circumstances

Only if they are not fitted to the machine as standard

Yes, if authorised by the supervisor

Yes, always

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What must you do approximately 200 m before a site works access on a motorway?

Switch on the flashing amber beacon and the appropriate indicator

Switch on the headlights

Switch on the flashing amber beacon

Switch on the vehicle hazard lights

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What is the purpose of an on-site risk assessment?

To ensure that the work can be carried out in reasonable safety

To ensure there is no risk of traffic build-up due to the works in progress

To identify hazards and risks specific to the site in order to ensure a safe system of work

To protect the employer from prosecution

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What is the purpose of the safety zone?

To give a safe route around the working area

To allow extra working space in an emergency

To protect you from the traffic and the traffic from you

To indicate the works area

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Why is it not safe to use diesel to prevent asphalt sticking to the bed of lorries?

It will create an environmental hazard

It will corrode the bed of the lorry

It will react with the asphalt, creating explosive fumes

It will create a slipping hazard

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How should portable traffic signals be assembled and placed?

In an organised manner, to a specified sequence

As work starts each morning

During the night

As speedily as possible

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What action should you take if a vehicle, driven by a member of the public, enters the coned off area on a dual carriageway?

Remove a cone and direct the driver back on to the live carriageway

Shout and wave them off site

Help them to leave the site safely using the nearest designated exit

Ignore them

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What are two effects of underinflated tyres on the operation of a machine?

It decreases the operating speed of the engine

It can make the machine unstable

It causes increased tyre wear

It increases the operating speed of the engine

It causes decreased tyre wear

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In which of the following circumstances would it not be safe to use a cherry picker for working at height?

When a roll-over cage is not fitted

When the ground is uneven and sloping

When weather protection is not fitted

When the operator is clipped to an anchorage point in the basket

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When kerbing works are being carried out, how should kerbs be taken off the vehicle?

By asking your workmate to give you a hand

By lifting them off manually using the correct technique

By using mechanical means, such as a machine fitted with a grab

By pushing them off the back

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Who is responsible for the security of the load on a vehicle?

The driver's supervisor

The police

The driver

The driver's company

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What should you do when leaving plant unattended?

Apply the brake, switch off the engine and remove the key

Park with blocks under the front wheels

Leave the amber flashing beacon on

Leave it in a safe place with the engine ticking over

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What action is required when a highways vehicle fitted with a direction arrow is travelling from site to site?

Point the direction arrow up

Travel slowly from site to site

Cover or remove the direction arrow

Point the direction arrow down

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In which two places would you find information about the distances for setting out highways signs in advance of the works under different road conditions?

In the new Code of Practice (Red Book)

In the Traffic Signs Manual (Chapter 8)

On the back of the sign

In the Works Order

In the Pink Book

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What should you do if drivers approaching highway works cannot see the advance signs clearly because of poor visibility or obstructions caused by road features?

Lengthen the lead-in taper

Extend the safety zones

Place additional signs in advance of the works

Extend the sideways clearance

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What is the correct way to dismount from the cab or driving seat of plant and vehicles?

Jump down facing forwards (away from the vehicle)

Jump down well clear of the vehicle

Use three points of contact facing backwards (towards the vehicle)

Use three points of contact facing forwards (away from the vehicle)

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What is the maximum distance between the 'roadworks ahead' signs for work activities that move along the carriageway, such as sweeping, verge mowing and road lining?

Half a mile

One mile

Two miles

Quarter of a mile

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What must you have before towing a compressor on the highway? Give two answers.

Working lights, and a number plate on the compressor that matches that of the towing vehicle

Permission from the compressor hire company

Permission from your supervisor

Permission from the police

The correct class of driving licence

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The average score is 87%

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CSCS Highways Mock Test – Get Ready for Road and Highway Construction

What is the CSCS Highway Works Test?

The CSCS Highway Works Test is a specialist Health, Safety and Environment (HS&E) test designed for individuals working on highways, roads, and public infrastructure projects. It ensures that workers understand the specific hazards and regulations associated with highway maintenance and construction.

Why Take a Highway Works Mock Test?

Practicing with a CSCS Highway Works Mock Test helps you prepare for the actual exam by familiarising yourself with the format, testing your knowledge, and highlighting any areas that need improvement before your official test date.