SAFETY QUIZ: ISM QUIZ 1

Supervisors must have a general knowledge of the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) responsibilities, understanding of the tasks processes and _______, and the awareness of the hazards, risks and risk control measures associated with the tasks undertaken.  

• Safe Work Criterion

• Safe Work Parameter

• Safe Work Limitation

• Safe Work Practices

Supervision is timely when the supervisor monitors the work ________ and is available when required by the workers during their instances of doubts and uncertainty.

• In office

• At workshop

• On-site

• On call

Supervisors _______ work activities undertaken by their subordinates and take responsibility for the outcomes. They ensure that (a) proper work procedures are being followed, (b) provide an additional check against potential errors and (c) take charge of situations when exceptional circumstances occur.

• Surrender

• Oversee

• Accept

• Comply with

A supervisor cannot be at everywhere all the time. Hence it is important for the _________ to be present at the time where supervision of the specified task is required.

• Supervisor

• Unit CO

• SSO

• Naval Inspectorate

Supervisors have to pay additional attention to Junior personnel in RSN, especially when they are still new to the task, and not let them work independently until it has been ascertained that they are ready. Junior personnel in RSN defined as __________ OR has less than _________ service for NSF, NSmen, Officers, MEs, WOSRs) are also a vulnerable group due to their potential lack of knowledge of the work-related risks and experience.

• ME2-1/2SG and below, 3 years

• ME1-1/2SG and below, 3 years

• ME1-2/2SG and below, 1.5 years

• ME1-1/1SG and below, 1 year

Identifying hazards is everybody’s responsibility. “_________”. As a supervisor, you need to be alert and look out for dangers which your team may have overlooked.

• Safety Has No Ranks

• Safety Has Nothing To Do With Me

• Safety Has No Horizon

• Safety Has No Boarder

Regardless, safety must be treated with paramount importance. As described in the _______ Model, all accidents begin with the infestation of hazards passing through a series of safety nets. It only takes a single hazard and a string of latent conditions to produce catastrophic consequences.

• Event Tree

• Fish Bone (Cause and Effective) diagram

• Swiss Cheese

• The Domino Theory

Which is the correct sequence of the Hierarchy of  Risk Control Measures (from the most effective to the least effective)?

• Elimination, Isolation, Administration controls, Substitution, PPE, Engineering Control

• Elimination, Engineering Control, Substitution, Isolation, Administration controls, PPE

• Elimination, Substitution, Isolation, Engineering Control, Administration controls, PPE

• Engineering Control, Elimination, Substitution, PPE, Isolation, Administration controls

In order to control workplace hazards and eliminate or reduce the risk, as a supervisor you should ________ the hazard by carrying out a workplace risk assessment;

• Report

• Identified

• Disregards

• Separated

As identification of hazards is the first step in Risk Management, it implies that __________which are not identified would not go through the rigour of the Risk Management process, leading to the non-identification of preventive measures for implementation and communication to prevent harm in the workplace.

• Activities

• Defects

• Hazards

• Design