Assignment 1

Safety and Risk Analytics

1. Which of the following are the elements of the modern safety management system?
a) Micro Hazard Mapping & Management (MHMM)
b) Hazop for all Disciplines (HAD)
c) Alignment to Industry 4.0
d) All of the above

Option d) Refer to Lecture 1

2. Any real or potential condition that can cause injury, illness, or death to personnel; damage to or loss
of a system, equipment or property; or damage to the environment
a) Risk
b) Hazard
c) Accident
d) Threat
Option b) Refer to Lecture 1
3. Incident causing mechanism (ICM) comprises of
a) Hazardous element and initiating event
b) Initiating event and target
c) Initiating event and pivotal event
d) All of the above

Option c) Refer to lecture 2

4. If we consider maintenance as one of the risk control system (RCS). In such case it will be
specifically categorised under
a) Preventive risk control system
b) Mitigative risk control system
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of the above
Option a) Refer to Lecture 3
5. Which of the following schemes is superior as per the accuracy of risk parameter quantification?
a) Prior distribution unknown and evidence (recent data) unknown
b) Prior distribution known and evidence (recent data) known
c) Prior distribution unknown and evidence (recent data) known
d) All of the above
Option b) Refer to Lecture 5
 Question 6-7 are based on the following description
A worker works at height (50 feet from the ground) without using a safety harness (belt). In certain
circumstances, he might feel dizziness and fall on the floor. This may result in injury to the worker.

6. The hazardous element is

a) Working at height
b) Feeling dizziness,
c) Worker & Injury
d) Working without harness (belt)
Option a) Refer to Lecture 2
7. The Initiating mechanism includes
a) Working without safety harness (belt)
b) Felling dizziness
c) Both a and b
d) None of the above
Option c) Refer to Lecture 2
8.
The probability of occurrence and the consequence of an incident path are equal to 6 and 5, respectively
(on a 7-point Likert Scale). If the risk score is 150, what is the detectability of the path?
a) 5
b) 4
c) 2
d) 1

Solution:
Detectability= Risk/(Probability× Consequence)=150/(6×5)=5
Option a) Refer to Lecture 4.

9.
An expected loss or damage associated with the occurrence of a possible undesired event is defined as

a) Hazard
b) Incident
c) Risk
d) Safety

Option c) Refer to Lecture 4

10.
In ALARP the lowest triangle denotes
a) High risk zone
b) Acceptable risk zone
c) Medium risk zone
d) Cannot say
Option b) Refer to lecture 5

Answers:
1.d
2.b
3.c
4.a
5.b
6.a
7.c
8.a
9.c
10.b