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The document discusses key concepts in industrial safety engineering. It provides definitions of terms like mishap, hazard, risk assessment techniques. It also discusses models like Swiss cheese and concepts like ALARP. Multiple choice questions are included to test understanding of these terms and concepts.

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The document discusses key concepts in industrial safety engineering. It provides definitions of terms like mishap, hazard, risk assessment techniques. It also discusses models like Swiss cheese and concepts like ALARP. Multiple choice questions are included to test understanding of these terms and concepts.

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Industrial Safety Engineering

Assignment Week 1

1. Mishap is defined as an unplanned event resulting in


(a) Death, injury or Occupational illness
(b) Damage to environment
(c) Damage to equipment or property
(d) All of the above
2. A person or thing that is vulnerable to injury and/ damage is called
(a) Target
(b) Initiating Mechanism
(c) Hazardous Element
(d) Hazard Triangle
3. Which among these can be called a hazardous element
(a) High Pressure Tank
(b) Tank Rupture
(c) Electrocution, death/ injury
(d) Touching exposed wire
4. Read he following HAZARD statement carefully and answer the following questions:
The wire that connected the motor to the power source deteriorated over time as a consequence
of poor installation and maintenance practises, which eventually led to a short circuit in the
system. As a direct consequence of this, the electric motor that was supposed to be powering a
crucial piece of machinery, broke down.

4.1 Which among these can be a hazardous element for the statement above?
(a) Motor
(b) Power Source
(c) Both A and B
(d) None of the above
4.2 Which among these can be an initiating mechanism for the statement above?
(a) Motor
(b) Poor Installation of motor
(c) Broken Machinery
(d) None of the above
4.3 Which among these can be target/threat for the statement above?
(a) Motor
(b) Poor Installation
(c) Motor operator
(d) None of the above
5. Which of the statement is not true for the Swiss cheese Model?
(a) Holes in the cheese layer represent lagging indicator
(b) Layer of cheese represent leading indicator
(c) Arrow indicates accident trajectory that goes from harm to hazard
(d) Swiss cheese model is an accident causation model
6. The frequency and the number of people suffering a given level of harm from the realization of
specified hazard is termed as
(a) Individual Risk
(b) Societal Risk
(c) Operational Risk
(d) Compliance Risk
7. In the process of risk assessment which of the following falls under qualitative risk assessment
technique?
(a) Estimation of Likelihood
(b) Estimation of Impact
(c) Risk Evaluation
(d) Hazard Identification

8. Risk can be calculated using the formula 𝑅 = 𝑃 × 𝐶 𝛾 ; where ‘ 𝛾’ is termed as


(a) Perception Factor
(b) Risk Priority Number
(c) Probability of Occurrence
(d) Accident Severity
9. What does the acronym ALARP stand for in risk assessment?
(a) Accepted Level of Risk Assessment Protocol
(b) As Low as Reasonably Practicable
(c) Avoiding Large Accidents with Risk Planning
(d) Achieving Level of Acceptable Risk Parameters
10. In the prevention through design concept which of the following does not fall under Redesign or
retrofit?
(a) Decommissioning
(b) Operation and Maintenance
(c) Build
(d) Business Concept
11. The 5W and 1H principle is followed in the taxonomy of negative interactions. Choose an option
that does not belong to 5w from the list below.
(a) Why-Classification
(b) Which-Classification
(c) When-Classification
(d) Where-Classification

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