1. The key elements of a process safety management system follow the Plan Do check Act model.

Implementation and operations aligns with which part of the model?

a. Check
b. Plan
c. Do
d. Act
2. Which of the following is the most direct evidence of worker competence?
a. Completing an attendance form following a process safety toolbox talk
b. Carrying out a work-related task without harming themselves or others
c. Signing a document to confirm that a procedure was read and understood
d. Consistently performing a work-related task correctly to the required standard
3. One control adopted for safe start-up of plant is:
a. Opening of drain valves.
b. Opening of all valves
c. Closing of drain valves
d. Closing of all valves
4. What is saturated steam?
a. Where some liquid water is still retained in the steam
b. Where all the water has been converted to steam
c. Steam under very high pressure
d. Steam with a temperature in excess of 200? C
5. With regard to process safety management, chemical warehouses should be managed and routinely
inspected to ensure that:
a. Stock is not left outside where it could become contaminated
b. Incompatible materials are kept separated
c. Production is not affected is stock runs low
d. Material can be stockpiled ready for use
6. Competence at work is often demonstrated through the application of skilled behaviour based on
sound knowledge gained through:
a. Work experience
b. E-learning assessment
c. Staff surveys
d. Site audits
7. Shift handover between an incoming and outgoing operator should be conducted safely with:
a. An operation supervisor taking sole responsibility
b. None of the participants taking responsibility
c. At least one participant taking sole responsibility
d. Both participants taking joint responsibility
8. A proactive maintenance strategy associated with asset integrity is:
a. Inherent safe design
b. Breakdown maintenance
c. Condition monitoring
d. Redundancy
9. Benchmarking is used to identify good practice across similar:
a. Organisations
b. Procedures
c. Techniques
d. Committees
10. The severity of injury received as a result of contact with electricity is minimised by:
a. Low current and high voltage
b. High current and low body resistance
c. Low current and high body resistance
d. High current and high voltage
11. Which of the following is an example of a process safety risk reduction measure?
a. Building a brick bund wall around an acid storage tank
b. Wearing protective gloves when handling acidic waste
c. Safety signs that help ensure handrails are used on stairways
d. Safety rules that help ensure high-visibility vests are worn
12. Which of the following is an example of a condition needed for a dust explosion to occur?
a. Very high humidity
b. Dust is confined in a hopper or silo
c. Dust concentration below lower explosive limit
d. Dust particle size is very large
13. Parameters that contain a controlled reaction, which prescribed upper and lower limits, enabling
safe operation of processes are safe operating:
a. Envelops
b. Practices
c. Systems
d. Permits
14. Within a management of change procedure, final approval for removal of a safety critical device
should be given by a:
a. Chemical engineer
b. Lead operator
c. Senior manager
d. Process technician
15. Process safety mainly deals with:
a. Low frequency, high severity risks
b. High frequency, high severity risks
c. Low frequency, low severity risks
d. High frequency, low severity risks
16. To manage an organisation’s reputation during emergencies, there should be a nominated trained
person to specifically liaise with:
a. Site visitors
b. Plant workers
c. Corporate managers
d. Media reporters
17. What is the most likely fire risk presented by external floating roof tanks?
a. Ignition of flammable vapour within the tank
b. Ignition of flammable vapour passing out of pressure vacuum relief valves
c. Impact with tankers igniting the contents due to friction
d. Ignition of flammable vapour leaking past a defective rim seal
18. Legionellae bacteria grow at temperatures between:
a. 60oC and 70oC
b. -10oC and -5OC
c. 70OC and 100OC
d. 20OC and 55OC
19. Process safety involves a commitment to continuous:
a. Improvement
b. Implementation
c. Improvisation
d. Impartiality
20. Process safety performance indicators should contain a mix of both leading and lagging indicators.
An example of a leading indicator is the number of:
a. Equipment inspections
b. Loss of containments
c. Lost time injuries
d. Overpressure incidents
21. A thermal runaway reaction can be controlled by emergency:
a. Evacuation
b. Stops
c. Cooling
d. Alarms
22. You are responsible for ensuring safe isolation of a section of a chemical plant ahead of intrusive
inspection and maintenance. The highest standard of isolation that you can achieve is:
a. Insertion of a blank plate
b. Single valve isolation
c. Double valve isolation
d. Double block and bleed
23. Standard operating procedures are
a. A signed authority for a high risk maintenance activity
b. An assessment of hazards and evaluation of risk associated with an activity
c. Detailed step by step written procedure documenting an activity
d. A breakdown of a process into nodes to identify deviations from normal activity
24. Parameters that contain a controlled reaction, which prescribed upper and lower limits, enabling
safe operation of processes are safe operating:
a. Envelops
b. Practices
c. Systems
d. Permits
25. One control adopted for safe start-up of plant is:
a. Opening of drain valves
b. Opening of all valves
c. Closing of drain valves
d. Closing of all valves
26. The key elements of a process safety management system follow the Plan Do Check Act model.
’Policy’ aligns with which part of the model?
a. Check
b. Act
c. Plan
d. Do
27. The most effective way to familiarize people with their roles and responsibilities when faced with an
emergency is a:
a. Presentation
b. Role play exercise
c. Practical drill
d. workshop

28. You are responsible for ensuring safe isolation of a section of a chemical plant ahead of intrusive
inspection and maintenance. The highest standard of isolation that you can achieve is:
a. Insertion of a blank plate
b. Single valve isolation
c. Double valve isolation
d. Double block and bleed
29. Quantitative risk assessment differs from qualitative risk assessment because it is more:
a. Objective
b. Subjective
c. Detective
d. Adaptive
30. Competence at work is often demonstrated through the application of skilled behaviour based on
sound knowledge gained through:
a. Work experience
b. E-learning assessment
c. Staff surveys
d. Site audits
31. What is saturated steam?
a. Where some liquid water is still retained in the steam
b. Where all the water has been converted to steam
c. Steam under very high pressure
d. Steam with a temperature in excess of 200? C.
32. The severity of injury received as a result of contact with electricity is minimised by:
a. Low current and high voltage
b. High current and low body resistance
c. Low current and high body resistance
 d. High current and high voltage
33. Process safety performance indicators should contain a mix of both leading and lagging indicators.
An example of a leading indicator is the number of:
a. Equipment inspections
b. Loss of containments
c. Lost time injuries
d. Overpressure incidents
34. A thermal runaway reaction can be controlled by emergency:
a. Evacuation
b. Stops
c. Cooling
d. Alarms

35. An endothermic reaction is one that:

a. Releases energy with a corresponding temperature decrease
b. Absorbs energy from its surroundings with a corresponding temperature increase
c. Releases energy with a corresponding temperature increase
d. Absorbs energy with a corresponding with a corresponding temperature decrease
36. Benchmarking is used to identify good practice across similar:
a. Organisations
b. Procedures
c. Techniques
d. Committees
37. Inerting ensures that the concentration of oxygen is:
a. Below the level that supports combustion in a flammable atmosphere
b. Above the level that supports combustion in a flammable atmosphere
c. At or above the level that supports combustion in a flammable atmosphere
d. At the level that supports combustion in a flammable atmosphere

38. What is the most likely fire risk presented by external floating roof tanks?
a. Ignition of flammable vapour within the tank
b. Ignition of flammable vapour passing out of pressure vacuum relief valves
c. Impact with tankers igniting the contents due to friction
d. Ignition of flammable vapour leaking past a defective rim seal
39. Process safety involves a commitment to continuous:
a. Improvement
b. Implementation
c. Improvisation
d. Impartiality
40. What is saturated steam?
a. Where some liquid water is still retained in the steam
b. Where all the water has been converted to steam
c. Steam under very high pressure
d. Steam with a temperature in excess of 200? C.
41. Which of the following is an example of a process safety risk reduction measure?
a. Building a brick bund wall around an acid storage tank
b. Wearing protective gloves when handling acidic waste
c. Safety signs that help ensure handling are used on stairways
d. Safety rules that help ensure high-visibility vests are worn

42. What is the most important benefit of involving workers when carrying of involving workers when
carrying out risk assessments?
a. To make sure there is a balanced representation of workers and managers
b. To enable employer and employees to comply fully with legal requirements
c. To reduce resistance and conflict when risk assessments are introduced
d. To gather detailed practical knowledge about workplace hazards and risks
43. A thermal runaway reaction can be controlled by emergency
a. Evacuation
b. Stops
c. Cooling
d. Alarms
44. With regard to process safety management, chemical warehouses should be managed and routinely
inspected to ensure that:
a. Stock is not left outside where it could become contaminated
b. Incompatible materials are kept separated
c. Production is not affected is stock runs low
d. Material can be stockpiled ready for use
45. An endothermic reaction is one that:
a. Releases energy with a corresponding temperature decrease
b. Absorbs energy from its surroundings with a corresponding temperature increase
c. Releases energy with a corresponding temperature increase
d. Absorbs energy with a corresponding temperature increase
46. A proactive maintenance strategy associated with asset integrity is:
a. Inherent safe design
b. Breakdown maintenance
c. Condition monitoring
d. Redundancy
47. The most effective way to familiarize people with their roles and responsibilities when faced with an
emergency is a:
a. Presentation
b. Role play exercise
c. Practical drill
d. Workshop
48. In which risk assessment, identifying deviations and using guide words,
49. After a catastrophic incident, which risk assessment is applied,
50. Where Inert gas is used in fire protection, prevention or suppression,
51. Brittle metal characteristic,
52. If any pipe cut in running line- which type of a failure,
53. Legionellae grows at which ideal temperature,
54. If any critical equipment fails and forced to s/d which type of a/d,
55. 1 case study about vapour cloud explosion,
56. 1 case about fatigue of operators in control room-what actions to be taken,
57. PSM is for whom- people, workers, society,
58. For storage tank to avoid vapour release which is best control,
59. For secondary dust explosion, the best practice,
60. Which type of risk assessment needed if a complex process needed to add in existing pharma plant,
61. After competing drilling oil rig, by a Sr management which is most critical activities to be observed,
62. Nitrogen is used for replacing air is called,
63. How dust explosion can be best avoided.
64. Leading indicator example
65. Lagging indicator example
66. Inert gas best usage- active, preventive, passive
67. Which of the following portable fire extinguishers should not be used to extinguish a small fire in a
v confined space?
A. ABC dry chemical
B. Carbon dioxide
C. Water
D. BC dry chemical
68. A pump is sending cooling water to a reactor. Loss of cooling water to this reactor would cause the
reactor to explode. A fail – safe design for the system is best portrayed by:
A. Activation of a spare pump upon failure of the cooling water pump.
B. Automatic shutdown of the process upon failure of the cooling water pump
C. Relieve pressure in the reactor to prevent explosion
D. All of the above.
69. In this maintenance strategy, the operator looks at Indicators that could demonstrate that the
equipment is not, or will not be, working as intended – this picks up symptoms of the deterioration
before the equipment actually fails,
A. Planned Preventive Maintenance
B. Condition monitoring
C. Breakdown maintenance
D. All of the above
70. During a safety inspection of your facility, you have discovered an unsafe act being committed by an
employee. You best course of action is;
A. To the unsafe act and instruct the employee how the job can be done safety.
B. To report the unsafe act to employee’s supervisor
C. Provide adequate training.
D. All of the above
71. In handling bulging drums of hazardous chemicals or wastes;
A. The pressure most be relieved using a knife, chisel, or similar tools,
 B. The pressure must be relieved in an area which is away from the drum using
appropriate PPE.
C. The drum must be isolated with a barricade
D. Only (b) and (c) above
72. Identify the most correct statement?
A. The terms pressure relief valve (PRV) and pressure safety valve (PSV) on other used
interchangeably.
B. The term PRV, according to some authorities, should be used to describe a relief device
on a liquid filled vessel that opens gradually in proportion to any increase in pressure
over the preset pressure.
C. PSV describes a relief valve device fitted to a vessel containing a compressible fluid or
gas, which opens fully and suddenly when the set pressure of the valve is reached.
D. All of the above
73. In the 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, 167 lives were lost, insured losses reached £1.7 billion and
impacted 10% of North Sea oil and gas production. This incident has been reported as a result of one
of the failure, particularly in
A. Management of Change
B. Handing information over from one shift to another related to permit to work
C. Process Hazard Analysis
D. Pre-Start up review
74. Which of the following is able to melt metal?
A. Silver plating
B. Copper smelting
C. Are welding
D. Furnace operations
75. The minimum temperature at which the vapour concentration above a liquid is high enough to form
as ignitable mixture with air is called the
A. LEL
B. UEL
C. Flash Point
D. Fire Point
76. An incident such as if a process line ruptures during a nightshift and chemicals sprayers into an area
of the plant, where sometimes operator works, need to categorized as-
A. Personal Safety Incident
B. Near miss which may not required detailed investigation
C. Process safety incidents
D. A & B above
77. Which of the following is jor a main objective of the planning for Fire safety in buildings-
A. Requiring the use of non- combustible materials in conductors.
B. Minimizing business interruption
C. Getting occupants out safety
D. Minimizing property and lose of life
78. In terms of safety critical performance standards, what does the abbreviation ____ stand for-
A. Functionality, availability, resource, Survivability, interdependency.
B. Functionality, asset integrity, reliability, Survivability, interdependency.
C. Functionality, Asset integrity, reliability, systemic, interdependency
D. Functionality, availability, liability, Survivability, interdependency
79. What is saturated steam?
A. Where all the water has been converted to steam.
B. Steam under high pressure.
C. Steam with temperature in excess of 200ocelsius
D. Steam, which may have 3-5% water.
80. The Uk control of Major Accident Hazard Regulation 2015 (COMAH) place many requirements on
high- Hazards installations operators. One such requirement is such that operators produce:-
A. Tertiary evacuations prevention plan
B. Major accident prevention policy
C. Police and security services exercise plans
D. Major incident prevention plan
81. The risk assessment process can use a variety of method to access the level of risks but there in
particular that are used by the UK’s NSE. Which of these methods would be employed under the
principle of proportionality, if the rish is considered to be intolerable?
A. Qualified
B. Qualitative
C. Semi Quantitative
D. Quantified
82. An operator a work related task without causing