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HSE Interview Questions and Answers


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.
·         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 safety programme?
·      Safety programme can be defined as five methods by which accident can be prevent easily they are engineering, education, enforcement, enthusiasm and example safety programmes are plain spoken and carry out certain legal steps.

11. What is attitude?
·      Attitude may be described as continuous behavior . if man’s behavior is good, then his action will be either correct or safe.

12. what is emergency planning?
·     Emergency planning can defined as a control measurer. It can control the accidents safe guard people and provide information to media.

13. 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.

14. What is work at height?
·         Any work above 2 meters from ground is caused work at height.

15. 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.

16. What is excavation?
·        Marking a hole or tunnel by digging the ground by man or machine is called excavation.

17. What is scaffolding?
·      It is a temporary platform constructed for supporting both men and materials and working safety at a construction site.

18. What is welding?
·         The process of joining of metals either by electrical or by gas is called welding.

19. What is gas cutting ?
·         The process of joining of cutting metals by using oxygen and combustible gas is called gas cutting.

20. What is sand blasting?
·         The process of removing rust dust, dirt, scales and old prints from the old surface using compressed air is called sand blasting.

21. What is painting?
·         The process after sand blasting is called painting .

22. What is LEL?
·         The minimum concentration of vapour, gasses and dust in air below which propagation of flame does not occur on contact with a source of ignition is called LEL.

23. What is UEL?
·         The maximum proporation of vapour, gasses and dust in air above which proposal the flame does not occur on contact with a source of ignition is called UEL.

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

25. What is house keeping?
·         House keeping means not only cleanness but also orderly arrangement of operations, tools, equipments storage facilities and suppliers.

26. What is personal protective equipment?
·      It is an equipments used to project the person from hazards such dust, dirt, fumes and sparks etc. It is the barrier between hazard and person.

27. What is grinding?
·         Grinder is a portable machine with a wheel guard in position to reduced the danger.

28. What is Crane?
·         A tall machine used for moving heavy objects by suspending them from a projecting arm with hook.

29. What is fork lift truck?
·         Fork lift truck are designed to handle heavy loads.

30. What is JSA?
·         The procedure of analyzing job for the specific purpose of finding the hazards and developing .

31. 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.

32. What are the precautions for welding?
·         1. Remove all combustion material from the place of welding
·      2. Clear the work area and cover wooden floor with fire proof mats. ( Welding mechanic should be kept with in the visibility of the welders.
·         3. Erect fire resistance screen around the work
·         4. All welding cables should be fully insulted
·         5. All welding mics shall be double earthed
·         6. Welding area should be dry and free from water
·         7. Keep the fire extinguisher / sand really
·         8. Use leather hand gloves, goggles and helmets
·         9. Switch off the power when welding is stopped
·        10. Do not allow the helper to do welding
·        11. Do not shift he welding cable unless the electric power is switched off.
·        12. Do not allow the helper to carry the welding. Terminal of the welding cables should be provided 3-cable with lugs and kept tight.
·         13. Oxygen hose in black and Acetylene hose in red in color as per standard
·         14. NRV of the blow torches should be maintained properly avoid back fire
·         15. Welders should be trained properly
·         16. Cylinders should be stored in a cold dry place away bottom heat and direct sunlight.
·         17. Proper house keeping, good ventilation in the working area
·         18. Smoking should be avoided from welding area
·         19. Hose connection should be proper made
·         20. Barricade the work area and put a sign board
·         21. Rolling of cylinders should be avoided
·         22. Flash back arrestor should be attached in each cylinders
·         23. Any leakage of cylinder should be kept separately

33. 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 equipments
·         3. The equipments 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 equipments
·         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

34. 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

35. What is tool box talk?
·         1. Job related safety aspects
·         2. Job related hazards / risk
·         3. Control / preventive measure
·         4. Adequacy of PPE’s / condition
·         5. Following safety rules / procedures
·         6. Safe work procedures / methods

36. Describe different types of hazards?
·         1. Mechanical hazards — in adequately guarded machines parts
·         2. Chemical hazards — of toxemic gasses, vapours, 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

37. What is inspection?
·      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.

38. 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

39. 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

Scenario

40. Give some examples about un safe conditions?
·         1. Un guarded machine/ equipment
·         2. Poor lighting
·         3. Narrow road
·         4. Improper stacking
·         5. Oil on floor
·         6. Unsafe ventilation
·         7. Unsafe defective construction
·         8. Defective condition of tools and equipment
·         9. Unsafe method or procedure
·         10. Bad housekeeping

41. Write a brief about classification of fire?
·         They are mainly five types of fire.
1.    Class A Fire : Wood, paper, clothes, rubbers etc.
2.    Class B Fire : Oil, grease, paint, petroleum etc.
3.    Class C Fire : Acetylene, ethane, methane etc.
4.    Class D Fire : Sodium, magnesium, potassium etc.
5.    Class E Fire : Electrical equipment etc.

42. PPE Standards ?
ANSI, EN
43. How many types of sign boards
·         Mandatory
·         Information
·         Fire or explosion
·         Caution
·         Wiring

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