Assessment info

For ECS Health, Safety and Environmental Assessments from 6 May 2024

• The ECS HSE assessment comprises of 50 questions selected across 11 topics. The numbers of questions randomly selected from each topic are:

Topic	Questions
General Health and Safety at Work	6
Manual Handling Operations	4
Reporting Accidents	3
Personal Protective Equipment at Work	4
Health and Hygiene	3
Fire and Emergency (inc Fire Safety in Buildings)	9
Work at Height	5
Work Equipment	4
Special Site Hazards	3
Electrotechnical	6
Environmental	3

Tip

You will not be asked a question that is not in the revision guide when taking the test. If you know all the 327 questions and answers in the revision guide you will get 50/50 on the test.

Data sources

Note

All this information is publicly available and free to use. Here are the source locations.

• Revision info : https://www.ecscard.org.uk/content/Preparation-and-Revision
• Revision guide pdf: https://www.ecscard.org.uk/getmedia/2bfce807-2289-4a51-a23e-b1c6f801f3e3/ECS-HSE-Revision-Guide-24-pdf.pdf

What does this project do?

This project is a python based, open source revision tool to practice the official revision questions that have been extracted from the ECS-HSE-Revision-Guide-24.pdf, provided as plain text and json in this repo.

The python based utilities that power the project are in the utilities directory.

The ecs-quiz.exe is a pyinstaller bundle of the quiz.py script that can be used independently of this repo with no privilege escalation or dependencies.

The project intends to serve to target audiences:

• Those who need to revise with no technical understanding requirement via the bundled exe file. This makes revision very accessible and consumable.
• Those with more developer and technical knowledge who can use the scripts directly or expand the project using the json files and quiz info.

Get revising

Download the pre-built exe file and run it - ecs-quiz.exe

When you run it this is what you will see, your options:

ecs-quiz-exe.mp4

Note

When run outside the repo environment the ecs-quiz.exe creates these files relative to the location of the exe when you run it.

• ecs-practice-test.json (if you select option 2 otherwise you don't see it)
• quiz_progress.json (as soon as you start a quiz. is deleted automatically when choosing to not resume or when a quiz is completed)

If run from inside the normal repo structure these files are saves in the tests folder.

Note

No data is collected nor is there any profiling or advertising. The binary should not even attempt any outgoing connections.

Temporary data of the binary will be stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp\ME... and is deleted when the binary is closed.

Alternative ways to revise

Here are some other methods I created to revise this test (before this project was created)

A Socrative room for all 317 questions across all 11 sections. (no account required)

https://api.socrative.com/rc/gGX8Gp

Warning

It will not remember your progress if you close the session

Tip

Import link for Socrative quiz: https://b.socrative.com/teacher/#import-quiz/79399500

via github codespaces (free github account required)

You can fork the repo and run a preconfigured codespace that will generate a random 50 question quiz and launch it in the terminal.

via quizgecko (free quizgecko account required)

ESC HSE Assessment sections.

• section 01
• section 02
• section 03
• section 04
• section 05
• section 06
• section 07
• section 08
• section 09
• section 10
• section 11

Tip

This pdf is the basis of the information in this project. The information is freely available and you are supposed to revise it for the test.

What do the scripts do?

Note

Disclaimer: These scripts have been made with Copilot / Claude Sonnet 3.5 (preview) via prompting.

process_questions.py will process all 327 questions across the 11 sections of the txt-full/ECS-HSE-Revision-Guide-24.txt that were taken from the ECS-HSE-Revision-Guide-24.pdf

The process_questions.py python script parses the txt into json in one of two ways.

• It creates a single json file with all sections in a single file in question-bank/full/json
• It creates a json file per section 1 to 11 in the question-bank/sections/json directory

Note

it defaults to txt-full and makes assumptions about the source dir but can accept an argument as an input for the source dir.

Usage: python process_questions.py <mode> [input_directory]

python process_questions.py full
python process_questions.py sections

python process_questions.py full ..\question-bank\full\txt
python process_questions.py sections ..\question-bank\full\txt

This just makes it easy to update the core question bank text file as and when the official revision guide is updated and the changes can easily be propagated to the json files.

Note

quiz.py has the functionality of create-test.py built into it. create-test.py is for testing.

create-test.py will generate a 50 question quiz with randomly selected questions from question-bank/full/ECS-HSE-Revision-Guide-24.json in the same format as the official one. Every time it is runs it will create file tests/ecs-practice-test.json overwriting the existing file.

example Usage:

Warning

The script quiz.pyrequires pip install colorama tqdm - see the requirements.txt

git clone https://github.com/lectrical/ecs-health-safety-and-environmental-assessment.git
cd ecs-health-safety-and-environmental-assessment
pip install colorama tqdm
python quiz.py

quiz.py will run a quiz via terminal from the randomly generated tests/ecs-practice-test.json quiz. A simple, free and effective way to mimic the exam.

Tip

The ecs-quiz.exe is built using the quiz.py so they have the exact same features.

test_json_to_text.py will convert the tests/ecs-practice-test.json to a text file tests/ecs-practice-test.txt. The check the tests directory for the outputs. You can feed the txt version to ai quiz generators and revision platforms like:

https://quizgecko.com/ https://www.remnote.com/

Warning

Binary security and privacy notes

The ecs-quiz.exe is built using Github workflows and they can be seen here: https://github.com/lectrical/ecs-health-safety-and-environmental-assessment/actions

1: All binaries built use Github attestation actions/attest-build-provenance to show that the binaries in this repo were built via Github using this source code. This verifies the binary has not been tampered with and you get exactly what it says on the tin.

2: The binary is canned using Virus total during the build process. There are some false positives for it being created via PyInstaller but not from any of the serious vendors. The source code here is not malicious and build process is transparent.

3: The sha256 of the attestation and virustotal result will be the same.

gh attestation verify ecs-quiz.exe -o lectrical

Will show something like

Loaded digest sha256:212d26db7e981ef2d08b948b300f94fc657d37ba9afbe1cfe07c05a96ee12014 for file://ecs-quiz.exe
Loaded 1 attestation from GitHub API
✓ Verification succeeded!

sha256:212d26db7e981ef2d08b948b300f94fc657d37ba9afbe1cfe07c05a96ee12014 was attested by:
REPO                                                      PREDICATE_TYPE                  WORKFLOW
lectrical/ecs-health-safety-and-environmental-assessment  https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1  .github/workflows/binary.yml@refs/heads/main