SOME INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR

OCCUPATION HEALTH AND SAFETY

JOB.

 Tell me about Yourself?

 What all major safety points observed in industrial Plant?
 Describe the components and value of critical incident management
Programmes?
 Describe the responsibilities of safety officer, supervisor, safety
committees, fire department managers as they relate to health and
safety programmes?
 Describe the components of wellness and fitness plan?
 What Caused the greatest percentage of fire ground injuries?
 Which organizations survey every fire department in every state for
injury and death statistics?
 The most sprains and strains occurred during what type of duty?
 Give me some example for Flammable and Combustible Petroleum
Liquids?
 What is Safety?
 What kind of safety measures you can take in construction site to
avoid incidents?
 Tell me what are the responsibilities of a safety officer in a
construction site
 What is FIR?
 In a road construction project, what type of safety signs we can use?
tell me some examples.
 Do you have First aid knowledge?
 What will you do if a person or labour fall down from height?
 What is PPE?
 What is FIRE?
 What is an Extinguisher?
 What are the types of Fire Extinguisher?
 What is Mock Drill?
 What do you consider your greatest accomplishments in your current
or previous position?
 A Public Safety Officer is on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or
may be called back to work during staff shortages or inclement
weather. Are you able to meet the scheduling requirements?
 Can you perform the essential duties of the job with or without
reasonable accommodation?
 Give me an example of a time when you had to make a split second
decision. What did you do? What was the outcome?
 What steps do take to ensure safety in the performance of your job?
 Tell me about a time when you enforced a rule to ensure the safety of
others. What did you do? What was the outcome?
 Tell me about a time when the approach you used in investigating an
incident really paid off well. What did you do and what was the
result?
 Describe a situation in which you had to quickly and objectively
determine an appropriate course of action. What happened as a
result of your actions?
 Describe one of the most difficult complaints or incidents you ever
had to investigate? How did approach the situation? What was the
outcome?
Describe a time when you anticipated potential problems and
developed preventive measures. What was the result of your
actions?
 Tell me about a situation when you had to bend policy to achieve a
goal. What did you do? What was the outcome?
 Describe a situation when you were insulted and became angry.
How did you handle your anger? What was the result?
 Tell me about a time when you had to approach an individual who
became confrontational and resisted your authority. How did you
handle the situation?
 What was the outcome?
 Explain the procedures you use for interviewing the following
person(s) during a preliminary investigation:
 Tell me about an incident where your supervisor should have been
notified right away but you did not bring it to his/her attention
immediately. How did you handle it? What was the outcome?
 Explain to me how you prepare for a court case.
 How do you keep abreast of current developments and new laws?
 Tell me about a time when you initiated an action to ensure the safety
of a staff person, co-workers, or citizen? What did you do? What
happened?
 Tell me the steps you take to assure that you accurately and
thoroughly document and report the facts of an incident or
investigation? How do you determine if/when you have been
successful in accomplishing this?
 What is First Aid?
 How can you improve health awareness in labours?
 What is occupational Health and safety?
 What all measures you can take to prevent incidents at construction
site?
 What is safety?
 While doing excavation for construction, what all safety measures you
can take?
 What all safety records you maintained in your previous industry?
 What is height work permit? What all things you have check before
the issue of permit?
 What is Bio medical waste?
 What is the method for the disposal of Bio Medical waste?
 How can you ensure safe drinking water provided for labors?
 What all precautions you can take in labor camp to prevent fire?
 Tell Me about a way you have made your workplace a safer place for
people to work.
 Tell me about a time you had to an unfamiliar task.
 Give me an example of a situation when others knew more than you
did. How did you close the gap.
 Safety is not a one person job. Give me an example of a time you
were able to improve safety only because you chose to involve others
in making the improvement.