Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT) 2008 M.Tech Civil Engineering test 3 : construction safety & health - Question Paper
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Jnypcc University oflnformation Technology* Waknaghat
Test-3 M.Tcch 1st Semester, 2008
Course code: 07M11CE104 Max Time: I hr30min
Course name: Construction Safety and Health
Credits: 3 Max marks: 30
Note: Attempt a)] 6 questions. Each question is worth 5 marks.
Q. 1 a Construction by its very nature is hazardous. What are different types of hazards in construction?
Q. lb List the diseases caused during construction.
Q. 2 Describe major elements of worlds best practice in construction safety management.
Q. 3 Author Allan Holt writes, "Human error as a simple catch-all explanation for accidents is now discredited. The term, if it means anything at all, does not provide an adequate description of the many ways in which the failure of people at ali levels in organization can contribute to the complex phenomenon we call accidents. It is more useful to think about human failure ... The human failure involves
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Active failures |
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Ldicnt failures |
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Errors |
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Slips |
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Lapses |
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Mistakes |
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Violations |
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Routine violations |
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Situational violations, and |
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Exceptional violations |
Define these terms such that the differences between them become clear.
Q. 4 As the key document pulling all the threads of the management process together, the safety policy details the arrangements made to comply with relevant regulations. List three essential elements of a safety policy. Explain cach element.
Q. 5a Risk assessments are used to generate method statements." What arc method statements?
i). 5b For difficult to identify hazards, wc use inductive analysis." What is inductivc analysis?
Q. 6 State 6 important rules for successful meetings
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