The Africa Occupational Health and Safety National Quiz 2026 is a nationwide knowledge competition organized to promote occupational safety, health, environmental awareness, professional excellence, and youth participation across Africa. The competition is administered by ASHEPA through an online learning and quiz platform. There will be no in-person final round.
Participation in the competition means the participant accepts these Competition Rules, the Privacy Policy, and the Terms and Conditions. ASHEPA may refuse, suspend, review, or disqualify participation where a participant does not comply with these rules.
Competition Categories
The competition has two categories:
- Practicing HSE Professionals
- Undergraduate College and University Students
Participants must register under the correct category. ASHEPA may move, suspend, or reject a participant where the submitted information or documents show that the participant registered under the wrong category.
01Registration
Eligible participants must register online using their own personal details. Each participant may use only one account unless ASHEPA gives written approval for a correction, replacement, or administrative adjustment.
Undergraduate participants must upload a valid student ID card. HSE Professionals must upload a valid National Registration Card, passport, or other approved identification document.
02Verification
Participants may be required to complete verification before accessing the full learning and quiz process. Verification may include a clear photo capture, document review, category confirmation, account review, and administrative checks.
ASHEPA may reject unclear, incomplete, suspicious, inconsistent, or unverifiable documents.
03Learning Stage
Participants must complete all assigned learning materials before the quiz is unlocked. The learning stage supports fair preparation and ensures that participants engage with key Occupational Safety, Health and Environmental topics before taking the quiz.
04Online Quiz Stage
The online quiz is timed and must be completed honestly and independently. Impersonation, answer sharing, unauthorized assistance, multiple accounts, use of another person’s account, or any attempt to manipulate the platform is strictly prohibited.
05Ranking and Review
Ranking may consider final score, quiz duration, submission time, course completion status, category, and ASHEPA’s integrity review. After the online quiz closes, ASHEPA may review the top results before confirming the Winner, First Runner-Up, and Second Runner-Up in each category.
06Winner Confirmation
There will be no in-person final round. Winners will be confirmed from the online quiz results after ASHEPA completes the required administrative and integrity review.
07Awards and Recognition
The Winner, First Runner-Up, and Second Runner-Up from both categories will receive official recognition from ASHEPA, an achievement certificate in addition to the Certificate of Participation, and publication as winners of the African OSH Quiz Challenge Cohort 2026.
08Certificate of Participation
Participants who complete the required learning process and submit the online quiz may receive a Certificate of Participation from ASHEPA. Certificates may be authenticated through the certificate verification page.
Fraud Detection and Integrity ReviewStrict integrity rules apply
The quiz platform uses fraud detection and integrity review tools designed to check, detect, record, and flag suspicious activity connected to a participant’s account, device, IP address, timing pattern, quiz attempt, document upload, verification photo, course progress, and registration details.
ASHEPA may review unusual or suspicious activity, including multiple accounts, repeated device patterns, suspicious timing, unusually fast completion, missing verification details, inconsistent identity documents, category mismatch, shared answers, repeated IP patterns, proxy or VPN indicators, impersonation indicators, multiple submissions, or any other behaviour that may create an unfair advantage.
A participant whose activity is flagged may be placed under administrative review. ASHEPA may request additional information, delay certificate issuing, remove the participant from the leaderboard, delay winner confirmation, withhold recognition, or disqualify the participant depending on the outcome of the review.
Any participant found to have engaged in fraudulent, dishonest, duplicated, manipulated, or unfair participation may be disqualified from the quiz, certificate issuance, winner recognition, award consideration, and future ASHEPA quiz programs.
Eligibility
The competition is open to registered participants in their selected African country who meet the requirements for either the Practicing HSE Professionals category or the Undergraduate College and University Students category.
ASHEPA reserves the right to verify participant information before, during, or after the quiz process.
Account Use
Each participant must use only one account and must not share login details with any other person. Participants are responsible for activity carried out under their account.
Identity Documents
Documents must be valid, clear, readable, and connected to the participant. Falsified, altered, expired, borrowed, incomplete, or misleading documents may lead to disqualification.
Verification Photo
The verification photo must clearly show the participant. A blurred, unclear, mismatched, copied, or manipulated photo may trigger review or prevent full platform access.
Course Completion
Participants must complete all required lessons assigned to their category before the quiz is unlocked. Skipping or manipulating course progress is prohibited.
Quiz Conduct
The quiz must be completed independently. Participants must not use unauthorized assistance, scripts, bots, shared answers, another person’s device for impersonation, or any method intended to manipulate results.
Ranking
Ranking is provisional until ASHEPA completes any required integrity review. ASHEPA may review top-performing results before confirming final winners and recognition status.
Leaderboard
Leaderboard results may be published, hidden, corrected, delayed, or removed where ASHEPA identifies review concerns, technical issues, duplicate accounts, or integrity flags.
Winner Confirmation
There will be no in-person final round. Winners will be confirmed from the online quiz results after ASHEPA completes eligibility, identity, ranking, and integrity review.
Awards
Awards and recognition are subject to eligibility confirmation, integrity review, and compliance with these Competition Rules. ASHEPA may withhold or withdraw recognition if a rule breach is identified.
Certificates
Certificates are issued only to eligible participants who complete the required learning process and submit the online quiz. Certificate access may be delayed or withheld during integrity review.
Disqualification
ASHEPA may disqualify any participant whose registration, identity, quiz attempt, result, document, photo, conduct, or supporting information is false, manipulated, duplicated, incomplete, suspicious, or inconsistent with the competition rules.
Final Decision
ASHEPA’s decision on eligibility, verification, fraud review, final results, rankings, awards, certificates, and disqualification is final after administrative review. ASHEPA may correct errors, investigate complaints, and take reasonable action to protect the credibility and fairness of the competition.
