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PRACTICE – EXAMINATION FOR ARAMCO PERMIT RECEIVER

Multiple choices: Encircle the letter with correct answer;

1. Where do we need work permits must be obtained before the works begin?
a) Restricted Area
b) Non- Restricted Area
c) Outside Aramco Facility

2. Before signing a work permit, the issuer & the receiver must conduct a ____________?
a.) Receiver Inspection
b.) Join Site Inspection
c.) Issuer Inspection

3. Both issuer & the receiver must be certified and poses a valid work permit ___________?
a.) Certification Card
b.) Aramco Identification Card
c.) Hydrogen Sulphides (H2S) Certification

4. _____________ was developed to minimize the risk of possible injury to employees while
working in restricted areas and to help prevent property damage.
a.) Certificate
b.) Issuer & Receiver
c.) Work Permit System

5. Who must sign a work permit issuer or certificate?

a.) Superintendent of issuer or receiver
b.) Operation Manager
c.) Project Manager

6. For how long is a work permit issuer or receiver certificate valid?

a.) 4 b.) 3 c.) 2

7. What are two important reasons for using work permit?

a.) Coordination & Cooperation
b.) Accident & Incident
c.) To communicate and control work

8. Which of the following methods of isolating equipment? (5 points)

a) Energized breaker without cover
b) Remove piping
c) Close and chain valves
 d) No blinds install
e) Remove fuses or disconnect wiring
f) House door locks
g) Open electrical breakers
h) Install blinds

9. What is listed on work permit?

a.) Minimum safety precaution
b.) Minimum hazards
c.) Pictures

10. Why do we use work permit in hazardous area?

a.) To identify incident
b.) To identify hazards precautions
c.) To identify works

11. For which conditions work permit is issued?

a.) Offices
b.) Stock room
c.) Specific work at specific location

12. Give examples of low risk work?

a) Sweeping, visual inspection, and minor cleaning
b) Crane operation
c) Cable Termination in existing panel

13. Select the choice where every item is a restricted area?

a.) Offices & conference room
b.) Mess hall & kitchen
c.) Pump station, sewage plants, wells

14. Do need works permit to work here?

a.) Yes
b.) No
c.) May be

15. What does restricted area required?

a.) The work permit is issued
b.) No work permit issued
c.) The work permit no signature

16. A specific area is not normally categorized as restricted area. Who makes the final
decision whether are is should be categorized as restricted area?
a.) Department Manager
b.) Production operator
 c.) Receiver

17. Do we need permit here?

a.) Yes
b.) May be
c.) No

18. When work permit issuer decide that a work permit is not needed in a Restricted area?
a.) When he decides the work is high risk
b.) When he decides the work is low risk.
c.) When he decides the work is in process area

19. Why is designated representative sometimes used?

a.) The issuer may be busy and needs help
b.) The issuer may be sleep
c.) The issuer may be on the other place

20. An issuer has which responsibility?

a. Supervision of work
b. Defines safety precautions and sign work permits
c. Sign work permits

21. A receiver must be what?

a.) Tea boy
b.) Labourer
c.) Senior crafts man

22. What the receiver’s main responsibilities?

a.) Not complying safety precautions and not sign the permit
b.) Complying with safety precautions and sign the permit
c.) No involvement in safety measures

23. What can the designated representative do?

a.) Ask the receiver where is the work area
b.) No inspection to the worksite
c.) Inspect the worksite

24. What is the work permit issuer responsible for?

a.) Workers
b.) Work permit
c.) Equipment or work area

25. Which of the following is not restricted area?

a. Loading pier
 b. Tank farm
c. Dump site

26. The safety of work site is a sole (only) responsibility of issuer?

a) False
b) True
c) May be

27. What do you call an area where a work permits are required?
a.) Non-restricted area
b.) Restricted area
c.) Central Control Room

28. Restricted areas include which location?

a.) Pump Station, tank farm, gas well
b.) Parking area
c.) Communication room

29. Who is work permit receiver?

a.) Project Manager
b.) Incompetent person
c.) A person certified to receive permits

30. What is the purpose of work permit system?

a.) To authorize specific construction or maintenance work
b.) To not authorize specific construction
c.) To allowed worker the unsafe act activity

31. Who can decide that work is a low risk and that a work permit is not needed?
a.) Issuer
b.) Receiver
c.) Superintendent

32. What responsibility do issuer and receiver share when signing work permit?
a.) Maintaining accident on site
b.) To allowed unsafe work activity
c.) Maintaining safety condition at site

33. Who will decide whether an area should be restricted or not?

a.) Superintendent
b.) Department Manager
c.) Issuer

34. What type of work does the work permit system authorize?
a.) Not specific construction
b.) Specific construction, maintenance, or repair work
c.) Incomplete work details
35. What join responsibility does issuer and receiver share?
a.) Safety at the worksite
b.) Unsafe activity at the work site
c.) Discussion for family conversation

36. Why is it important that the issuer tell the receiver about safety hazards he may find at job
site?
a.) The receiver may not have worked in the area before
b.) The receiver is familiar on the work area
c.) The receiver work on the area before

37. Who goes on the join site inspection?

a) Superintendent & Department Manager
b) Issuer & Receiver
c) Production Operator & Foreman

38. What two things must the receiver do before receiving a work permit?
a.) Do not read the work permit and go to the site
b.) Read the work permit and not agree to all conditions
c.) Read the work permit and agree to all conditions

39. Where must the receiver keep the work permit after it is issued?
a.) Displayed at the jobsite or in his possession
b.) Inside office
c.) Office of issuer

40. When can a receiver leave the jobsite?

a.) When the issuer leave the plant
b.) When the issuer has given him permission
c.) When the project engineer advise to leave

41. When should a fire watch be assigned?

d.) Whenever the work is manual excavation
b.) Whenever the visual inspection finish
c.) Whenever a fire could occur

42. What would the issuer require when welding on in-service hydrocarbon equipment?
a.) Standby man
b.) Medical representative
c.) Fire watch

43. What must the fire watch be?

a.) Untrained/incompetent
b.) Trained
c.) Unknowledgeable
44. The fire watch has to know how to?
a.) Operate the forklift
b.) Operate fire equipment given to him
c.) Operate the crane

45. What do we call the person who is required to be at a job site because of a special skill
he has?
b. Standby man
c. Operator
d. Fire watch

46. What training should a fire watch have?

a.) Trained to operate fire equipment
b.) Trained to operate crane
c.) Trained to operate the isolation valve of pipeline

47. What is the purpose of the joint site inspection?

a.) To mark the location area
b.) To discuss the tools to be used
c.) To discuss the scope of the work and identify any hazards or risk

48. What must be check during the joint site inspection? Select all items that apply?
a.) Safety devices
b.) Equipment condition
c.) Workers personality

49. Who should point out all hazards and write the hazards on the work permit?
d.) Issuer
a.) Designated representative
b.) Superintendent

50. Who should keep the work permit?

a. Issuer
b. Superintendent
c. Receiver

51. Who should ask for the work permit before they start working?
a) The receiver
b) The issuer
c) The Superintendent

52. Any worker can be assigned as standby man?

a.) May be
b.) True
c.) False
53. Who should be assigned when working near combustible materials?
a.) Department
b.) Standby man
c.) Fire watch

54. Who is responsible for the safety of the work site?

a.) Issuer & receiver
b.) Superintendent & department manager
c.) Fire watch & standby man

55. The receiver can leave the job site anytime as long as he gets the permission of his
supervisor?
a.) True
b.) False
c.) May be

56. A non-flammable material commonly used to purge process equipment is?

a.) Acetylene
b.) Oxygen
c.) Nitrogen

57. When preparing equipment for maintenance work, the issuer must make sure it?
a.) Not shutdown and energized
b.) Not isolated and continue energized
c.) Shutdown isolated and de-energized

58. Choose two method of isolating equipment? (2 Points)

a.) No blinds install
b.) Install blinds
c.) Remove fuses or disconnect wiring
d.) Electrical power on
e.) Removing piping

59. Why do we install blinds in process equipment?

a.) To continue flow of gases and harm to people
b.) To keep liquids or gases from contacting people
c.) To make sure incident/fire will occur

60. Removing fuses from an electrical circuit or disconnecting electric wiring is an example
of what?
a.) Isolating electrical equipment
b.) Mechanical isolating equipment
c.) Civil works

61. Equipment is isolated to make sure it cannot be?

a.) Electrical power supply is energized
b.) Started-up, leak or cause electrical shock
 c.) To harm people for causing electrical shock

62. . Why do we use work permit system?

a.) To prevent incident
b.) To increase accident
c.) To maintain incident

63. Give some examples of the equipment that we should isolate? (5 points)
a.) Electrical equipment
b.) Mechanical equipment
c.) Hydraulic Equipment
d.) Air or gas-operated systems
e.) Vessels, pipes and confined spaces
f.) Formworks
g.) Sloping & shattering
h.) Excavation

64. For Locks/Tags sequence before issuing or receiving a Work Permit you must: (3 points)
a.) One craftsman from each work crew, who will work on the equipment, must also
install his lock and tag.
b.) During operations do not install their locks and tags
c.) Put labourer for standby man.
d.) Identify all locations where locks and tags must be installed
e.) Operations must install their locks and tags must be installed
f.) Read and make picture

65. Normally how many hours per shift before work permit can be renewed?
a.) 8 hours per shift
b.) 9 hours per shift
c.) 10 hours per shift

66. What we call for the person with special skills?

a.) Fire watch
b.) Receiver
c.) Standby man

67. During emergency situation or if the condition specified on the work permit change what
permit receiver do?
a.) Continue the work & ignore the emergency situation
b.) Stop all work & close the permit
c.) Close the permit & continue all work

68. How many months should the permit issuer keep the original copy of the work permit?
a.) 1 month
b.) 3 months
c.) 5 months
69. Give 1 example of Hot Work Activity?
a.) Welding
b.) Visual Inspection
c.) Manual Excavation

70. Give 1 example of Cold Work Activity?

a.) Scaffold Erection
b.) Grinding of Steel Pipe
c.) Excavation using JCB/excavator