Safety Officer Interview Questions and Answer
Find out the 20 most common safety officer interview question and answer before go to a safety-related interview in any SABIC affiliated plant in Saudi Arabia.
What is SHEMs 08 (Safety Health and Management System)
SHEM 08.01 General SHE Rules.
SHEM 08.02 Laboratory SHE Rules.
SHEM 08.03 Material Handling & Storage
SHEM 08.04 Road Transportation of Materials.
SHEM 08.05 Electrical Safety
SHEM 08.06 Lifting Equipment
SHEM 08.07 Tools Handling
SHEM 08.08 Personal Protective Equipment
SHEM 08.09 Working at Height
SHEM 08.10 Work Permits
1. What is AUDIT?
An audit is a systematic, independent, and documented process for obtaining “audit evidence” and a critical examination of health and safety management.
2. What is Corrective Action?
Action to eliminate the cause of a detected nonconformity or other undesirable situation
3. What is Preventive action?
Action to mitigate the cause of a potential non-compliance or other undesirable potential situation.
4. What is Nonconformity?
Not fulfilling the requirement
5. What is a Hazard?
Any source with a potential to harm in terms of human injury or ill health, property damage or a combination of these.
6. What is Hazard Identification?
Process of recognizing that a hazard exists and defining its characteristics
7. What is Ill Health?
The identifiable, adverse physical or mental condition arising from and/or made worse by a work activity and/or work-related situation.
8. What is Risk?
The combination of the likelihood and consequence(s) of a specified hazardous event and the severity of an injury or ill health that can be caused by the event.
9. What is Risk Assessment?
Process of evaluating the risk(s) arising from a hazard(s), taking controls, and deciding whether or not the risk(s) is acceptable.
10. What is an Incident?
The work-related events in which an injury or ill health (regardless of severity) or fatality occurred, or could have occurred.
There are two types of incident:
- may also be referred to as a “near-miss”, “near-hit”, “close call” or “dangerous occurrence”.
- Accident
11. What is an Accident?
An accident is an incident that has given rise to injury or ill health.
12. What are the elements of “Live Saving rules”?
• Safe system of work
• Confined space
• Work at height
• Lifting operation
• Line break
• Energy isolation
• Creating opening
• Disabling safety system
• Vehicle safety
• Management of change
• Covid-19
13. What is Toolbox Talk?
Daily toolbox talks before the job start to educate the worker about the safe system of work and hazards and control measure of the daily activity.
14. What is the step of JSA (JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS)
• Select the task
• Break the task into small steps
• Identify the hazards
• Decide on a control measure
• Monitoring the effectiveness of control measure
15. What is the specification code of PPE?
- · ANSI Z89.1- 2014 – HELMET
- · ANSI Z87.1 – SAFETY GLASS
- · ANSI Z41. 1- 1967 – SAFETY SHOE
- ANSI Z369.1 – SAFETY HARNESS
16. What is PPE?
Personal protective equipment, commonly referred to as "PPE", is equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses. These injuries and illnesses may result from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards such as gloves, safety glasses, shoes, earplugs or muffs, hard hats, respirators, coveralls, vests, full bodysuits etc.
17. WAHAT IS Working at height?
Work at height works above 1.8 meters from ground level, where a person could be injured if they fell from that place.
18. What is Manual handling?
The term manual handling covers a wide variety of activities including lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, and carrying of material or equipment by own effort.
19. What is Scaffolding?
Scaffolding is a temporary platform used to support a work crew and materials to do construction, maintenance, and repair activity. Scaffolds are widely used on-site to get access to heights.
20. What is Housekeeping?
Housekeeping is not just cleanliness. It includes keeping materials and tools orderly, maintaining a workplace free of slip and trip hazards, and removing waste materials (e.g., paper, cardboard) and other fire hazards from the workplace.