SAFETY INTERVIEW QUESTION & ANSWER

SAFETY INTERVIEW QUESTION & ANSWER

1. What is Safety ?

It is a condition which gives you freedom from hazard, risk, accident which may cause injury, damage and loss to material or property damage and even death.

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Safety is defined as freedom from those condition that can cause injury to persons including death or damage to property or environment.

2. What is accident ?

It is an unexpected or unplanned event which may or may not result in injury or damage or property loss or death.

3. What is injury ?

It is defined as a harmful condition sustained by the body as a result of an accident.

4. What is hazard ?

Inherent property of a substance or an occurrence which has potential to cause loss or damage property, person or environment.

5. What is risk ?

In probability of the realization of potential for loss or damage or injury.

6. What is incident?

It is an event which represents deviation from the intended sequence of designed steps.

7. What is safety policy?

Any company has a social and legal obligation to provide a safe and health working environment to all his improvement to all his employees.

8. What is safety audit?

The safety audit is the process that identifies un-safe conditions and unsafe acts the plant and recommended safety improvement.

Walk through It evaluates the unsafe condition notice able to naked eye during work through the plant. ( Stores, civil work, erection work)

Inter mediate-more details study and review of plant design and plant operation.

Comprehensive –It evaluates the safety factors in the plant on the base engineering, analysis, testing, measurement.

9. What is safety tag?

Safety tag can be defined a surface made of card board or paper board on which English local languages letters written for warning safety instructions to employees.

10.  what is emergency planning?

Emergency planning can defined as a control measure. It can control the accidents safe guard people and provide information to media.

11. What is work permit system?

Work permit system is a “ written documents” for permission to undertake a job by area in charge or it is written document issued by the area in charge to the performer to under take the specific job.

12. What is work at height?

Any work above 2 meters from ground is caused work at height.

13. What is confined space?

An area which is small and enclosed or an area where one entry and exits or where a man cannot work comfortable in any location is caused confined space.

14. What is manual handing?

The process of lifting, carrying and stacking materials by men is called manual handing.

15. What is house keeping?

House keeping means not only cleanness but also orderly arrangement of operations, tools, equipments storage facilities and suppliers.

16. What is personal protective equipment?

It is an equipment's used to project the person from hazards such dust, dirt, fumes and sparks etc. It is the barrier between hazard and person.

17. What are the duties of a safety officer?

Prepare tool box talk

Prepare monthly statistics

Prepare the checklist

Accident reports

Management meetings

Arrange the safety classes/training

Arrange monthly safety bulletin

Inspection of fire extinguisher

Arrange first aid training classes

Arrange safety competitions like quiz, slogan, poster competitions exhibition etc.

18. What are the duties of a supervisor?

He has to instruct this workers about the work methods and procedures.

He has to maintain discipline among the workers

He has to supply necessary materials

He has to control quality and cost of the job

He has to guide has workers in doing a job in the correct and safe way

He has to supply suitable personal protective equipment to his workers

He should conduct periodical safety meetings.

He should conduct safety inspection of his working area

He should know about the fire fight equipments

He should know investigate the accident and find out the cause of accident

19.  What precautions are necessary in electrical work?

1. All electrical installations shall be as per Indian electricity rules

2. Only competent persons should handle the electrical equipment's

3. The equipment's should be earthed properly

4. All temporary electric lines should be drawn at least above man’s height

5. Cable should be completely insulted

6. Cable should not have any joints

7. Only connection for one point

8. Good house keeping on the area

9. Fire protection equipment to be kept near by

10. Use rubber gloves and rubber boots

11. Use good quality of wire

12. Power isolation close to the job

13. Use three pin plug instead of loose wire

14. Never operate any electrical equipment with wet hands

15. Never stand wet surface while working electrical equipment's

16. During thunder storm do not stand under tree

17. Proper sign board is necessary

18. No person shall work on any live electrical conductor

19. The switch shall only be put on by person who switched it off

20. What are advantages of JSA? ( Job safety Analysis)?

1. It helps to identify hazards and prevent accident

2. It helps to establish safe work method, working conditions and suitable plant safety rules

3. It helps to asses the safety training four heading can be used for JSA.

4. It helps to inspection the plant

a) Name of operation for JSA

b) Description of the operation

c) Hazards

d) Precautions

21. Describe different types of hazards?

1. Mechanical hazards — in adequately guarded machines parts

2. Chemical hazards — of toxemic gasses, vaporous, fumes, smoke in dust.

3. Electrical hazards : in adequately insulated line wires

4. Fire hazards – chemical reaction, electrical Arcs

5. Radiation hazards – dazzing light in fraved rays ultra violet rays

6. Pollution — water pollution & noise pollution

22. What is inspection?

1. Inspection means to fin out hazards according to checklist prepared with reference to the department operations by the people who are familiar with the plant.

23. How many types inspection?

There are 5 types inspection ; pressures of boilers( supervisor)

1. Continuous inspection – select employees / operator

2. Periodical Inspection – material storage, fire fighting equipment's, handling equipment's

3. Intermittent inspection – un announced inspection done by safety officer, safety committee. ( Particular work spot)

4. Statutory inspection – storage area, location at height ( cranes, ropes, chains, it my tackles inspection)

5. Special inspection – accident investigation

Inspection of new building, general lighting, use of PPE’s etc. construction work.

24. What is accident investigation?

Accident investigation means to carried out immediately the occurrence of accident to find out real facts to avoid the future accident.

25. How to investigate an accidents?

Injured persons name, address, designation age

Exact place and types of hazards

Date, shift, time

To find out the causes/ reasons

To take correction action

Fact finding not fault finding

26. How to report an accident?

1. Date and time

2. Activity

3. What happened

4. Person involved

5. What went wrong

6. Causes

7. Corrective action suggested

8. Signature

9. Safety officer

10. Safety in charge

11. Project manager

27. Personal protective equipment's? P.P.E

1. Head protection – Hard hat, cap, and helmet

Made – aluminum, PVC, fiber glass, Plastic

Protect – heal, spark, danger materials

2. Face and eye protection – Spectacles, Welding goggles, face shield

Protect – flying particles, radation

3. Hand protection – Gloves, hand pads

Made – leather, rubber, PVC, asbestos

Protect – acid, oil grease, pure Alex rubber gloves electrical

4. Foot and leg protection – Safety shoes, gum boots, foot leg guard

Made – Metal, leather, rubber

Project – falling materials and electrical work

5. Body protection – Apron, hood, coverall, jacket

Made rubber, leather canvas, lead, PVC asbestos

Asbestos hood – Fire fighting

Rubber, PVC full suit – ( Corrosively liquid, fumes, vapour

Safety belts – work exceeds 3 mts

6. Ear production – earmuff – noise – 30 – 135DB

7. Ear plug – 115 – 120 DB

28. How does the workers health influence ?

The workers health influences by occupational factors – physical, chemical, biological, social.

Non occupational factors – food, cloth, water, housing, smoking & alcohol etc.

29. How is audit conducted?

1. Preliminary visit and understanding the factory

2. Identify the audit element

3. Prepare the questionnaire

4. Get the reply from the company

5. Discussion with management, executives & workers.

6. Cross Verification at site

7. Preparation of report.

HI GUYS, I HOPE THIS DOCUMENT WILL HELP TO IMPROVE YOUR SAFETY SKILLS.

Shubhrant Mishra