HSE Health Safety & Environment

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Q1 What is HSE?
ANS Abbreviation of HSE health and safety environment, HSE is a condition of being protected from harmful hazards, injuries, or lose to
personnel or property whether caused by deliberately or by accident.
Q2 What are duties of HSE Officer?
ANS HSE officer is responsible for scheduling and conducting regular audits, inspecting safety measures, ensure the HSE policies have been
clearly communicated to employees and are being implemented. An HSE officer is also responsible for conducting risk analysis to avoid
accidents and conduct post-accident research to identify the cause of accident and take measures to avoid its repetition.
Q3 What is the role of HSE officer in working?
ANS HSE Officer is responsible for providing safe working conditions within an organization. He conducts risk assessments and mitigations
before the beginning of project and takes preventive measures to make sure that accidents, injuries and diseases do not bog employees
down.
Q4 What is the PPES its use standard and its importance in working?
ANS PPES stands for Personal Protective Equipment
29CFR 1910.132(General Requirements)
29CFR 1910.133(Eye and Face Protection)
29CFR 1910.135(Head Protection)
29CFR 1910.136(Foot Protection)
29CFR 1910.137(Electrical Protective Equipment)
29CFR 1910.138(Hand Protection)
Construction industry
29CFR 1926.95(Criteria for PPE)
29CFR 1926.96(Occupational for Protection)
29CFR 1926.100(Head Protection)
29CFR 1926.101(Hearing Protection)
29CFR 1926.102(Eye and Face Protection)
Maritime Industry
29CFR 1915.152(General Requirements)
29CFR 1915.153(Eye and Face Protection)
29CFR 1915.155(Head Protection)
29CFR 1915.156(Foot Protection)
29CFR 1915.157(Hand and Body Protection)
29CFR 1910.134(Respiratory Protection)
(When engineering, work practice and administrative control are not feasible or do not provide sufficient protection, employers must
provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to their employees and ensure its use. It’s an equipment to minimize exposure to a variety
of hazards such items as gloves, foot and eye protection ear plugs, muffs hard hats and respirators and full body suits (SCABA).
Q5 What is types of work permits?
ANS It’s a legal agreement between two parties issuer and receiver
1)Hot work permit,2) Excavation, trenching and ground disturbance work permit
3)Cold work permit,4)Confined space entry work permit,5)Electrical work permit
6)Vehicle entry work permit,7)work at height
Q6 What is fire?
ANS Fire need three things to start source of ignition (heat), source of (something that burns) and oxygen.
Q7 What are the types of fire?
Class A Fire (ash) fires with trash, wood or other combustible materials as the fuel source.
Class B Fire: (Boils) fires with flammable or combustible fluids.
Class C Fire: (Current)Fires with electricity
Class D Fire: (Dense Material) Fires with combustible metals such as magnesium and titanium.
Class K Fire: (Kitchen) s Fires with cooking oil, grease or animal fat.
Q8 What is the fire extinguisher and types of fire extinguisher?
ANS  Water(solid Type of fire=Ash)
 Foam(Boil type Of Fire)
 Co2(Electric type of fire)
 DCP(dry Chemical Powders, it may uses for multi purposes)
Q9 What is scaffolding types of scaffolding, tags of scaffolding and its erection standards and types of scaffolding members?
ANS It’s a temporary arrangement to work at height its standards is 1910.28
RED: not to work (Inspection required)
Yellow: Under construction(only work for scaffolders)
Green: you may work on it.
Members are: guardrail, planks, toe boards, ladder, poles, base plates, swivel couplers, fixed couplers, guarder couplers, sleeve couplers,

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joint pin, diagonal cross, runner, barrers, kicker lift, transom bearer, sole board, self-closing door.
Q10 What is lifting and types of lifting and lifting procedure?
ANS
Q11 What is excavation and types of excavation?

Q12 What is Hot work and cold work

ANS Hot Work: is any work that could create a source of ignition that could result in a fire or explosion.
Cold Work: work on equipment or plant components that are under pressure or are energized in some form(mechanical energy)
Q13 What is work at height and its procedure?
ANS To protect all personnel from the risk of fall while working at 3.5ft or above height.
Procedure:
1. The 3.5ft shall be considered as a height where appropriate measures shall be taken.
2. A fixed platform shall be used having planks of standard size not less than thickness 2inch x width 10inch x length 10Ft.
3. Minimum 2 planks platform shall be used for working at height.
4. Platform shall be guarded with top rail (* 36inch to 42inch high from platform) and mid rail (center point of top rail and
platform).
5. Safety belts shall be strictly prohibited at site.
6. Full body safety harness with double lanyard shall be mandatory for all workers working above 3.5ft height.
7. Access ladder shall be provided for all above ground work having rungs distance not more than 12 to 18 inches and rest
platform at every 20ft shall be provided.
8. If ladder is more than 20ft high then after every 20ft rest platform shall be installed in zigzag to the first one or the
monkey ladder shall be provided.
9. Where provision of safety harness hook up is not possible standard inspected life line of 6/8-inch wire core manila rope
shall be used. For all other lifeline applications, a minimum of 3/4-inch manila rope or equivalent shall be used and tied
with strong rigid support.
10. Protruding bars, vertical bars, nails and sharp edges shall not be present underneath the work at height.
11. Workers using fall arrest system shall be instructed and trained properly in its use, prior to start the activity.
12. Working at height shall not be allowed at open area during high wind or rain when:
i. 40 mph or 17.8 m/sec shall be followed while there is no dust
ii. 35.8 mph or 16 m/sec shall be followed while there is dust
iii. Work shall not be allowed at slippery platforms and scaffolds
13. Supervisor shall be responsible for the proper housekeeping of his area after job completion.
14. Working/Scaffold platform shall be GREEN tagged when meeting the above requirements.

Q14 What is rescue and its procedure?

ANS Rescue is basically save someone from a dangerous or difficult situation. There is no fixed procedure to apply, procedure depends on
different conditions and scenarios
Q15 What is confined space entry?
ANS Confined space is a place whose
 Entrance exit are limited
 Oxygen deficiency
 Flammable environment
 Toxic environment
 Continuous occupancy is not possible
 Lightning
 Slip/trip (tangled wire)
Q16 What is TBT (Tool Box Talk)?
ANS Toolbox talks allow you and your workers to explore the risks of specific health and safety issue on your site, and think about ways to
deal with them. Toolbox talks should focus on a single topic and be held regularly for greatest impact.
Q17 What is Safety Talk?
ANS Safety talk is a daily safety briefings by supervisors to all workers help to foster a good health and safety culture.
Q18 What is Near miss and its reporting procedure?
Hazardous event but no harmful damage is called near miss.
Q19 What is incident and accident and its reporting procedure?
Incident: undesirable event has no harm but potential to do so
Accident: undesirable event which cause harms and property damage.
Q20 What is investigation and its reporting procedure?
ANS Investigation is to identify the cause to prevent the incident/accident, further business losses, improving working morale, make a safety

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work environment.
Procedure
1. Ensured injured person
2. Reserve the scene
3. Report the accident
 Senior management
 Enforcing authority
 Injured persons family
 Owner of assets
 Insurance company
 Safety/employee representative
 HSE/HR department
4. Team
 Supervisor
 Senior manager
 HSE Expert
 Employee representative
 Person involved in event
 Technical expert(IF Necessary)
5. Gather Information
 Human interview
 Documentary
 Analyze findings

Q21 What are the types of Incident and accident and its classification?

Q22 What is RT (Radio Graph) and its procedure?

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