Safety Management Interview Questions

What systems and processes should be established to achieve a safe and health workplace under your
control?

What experience have you had in the development and implementation of strategies to
manage the risk of work-related injuries or illnesses?

How does the health and safety legislation developed over the previous two decades aim to
achieve the objective of a safe workplace?

From a health and safety perspective what evidence should be available to demonstrate effective
supervision?

From your previous work experience can you provide an example of how a supervisor's intervention
resolved a health and safety issue?

How can you ensure that all staff understands their health and safety obligations?

Through audits;

What do you see as safety issues that could arise in our particular work environment?

Depends on the project if construction

What has been your experience related to health and safety in your work or student life?

What should you do about a safety problem affecting you or your colleagues?

I will try to resolve the issue according to the procedures,

Have you ever been involved in a work situation where someone was violent or potentially violent? If
so, what did you do?

Immediately I will stop the job

What is the appropriate response for dealing with a body fluid spill?

During your internship experience, did you encounter employees that disobeyed safety rules? What
happened to that person? Do you agree with the company's actions? Why or why not? What would you
do differently?

How should safety management policies and activities be communicated internally? Externally?

How do you identify and assess employee and community expectations and concerns regarding safety
management, on an ongoing basis?

What barriers might impede long term commitment to and progress toward safety management?

Cost vs. benefit is usually a major concern for a company. The time required to make safety
improvements is also a consideration. However, the value of a human life and the quality of that
life after an accident should always be the first priority in any safety issue. It is always more
costly to correct a safety issue after an accident than before.

How do you feel you can contribute to the organization by supporting our safety program?

How do you personally demonstrate your commitment to safety management on the job?

How do you plan to go about establishing safety management goals, objectives, and targets?

How would you plan to go about assessing training needs of workers in your area?

Describe the performance measures you would like to use to determine the effectiveness of our safety
management system.

Tell me about a hazardous material of piece of equipment you have worked with. What special
procedures did you follow?

Sometimes people have to bend safety or security rules in order to get a job done. Give me an
example of when you had to do this.

Have you trained others to use safety equipment or procedures? Give me a specific example.

Give me an example of when you were involved in establishing safety standards for your work
group/team/organization. What was your role? What was the result?

How do you go about identifying and assessing employee and community expectations and concerns
regarding safety management on an ongoing basis?

Discuss ways to motivate, reward, recognize, and retain excellent employees or recognize a major
contribution to the organization.

Discuss the necessary considerations that must be addressed when developing a corrective action.

SAFETY INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Following are the common interview questions for Fire and safety manager/officer/assistant.
Tell me about yourself?

What is Environmental Health and Safety?

What is Hazard?

What are common Hazards in a construction site?

What systems should be established to achieve a safe and health workplace for labours under
your control?

Sometimes people have to bend safety or security rules in order to get a job done. Give me an example of
when you had to do this.

What safety experience you have to manage the risk of work-related illnesses/ injuries?

How does the health and safety legislation developed over the previous three decades to achieve the objective
Of a safe workplace?

From a health and safety perspective what evidence should be available to demonstrate effective supervision?

From your previous work experience can you provide an example of how a work supervisor's intervention
Resolved a health and safety issue?

How can you ensure that all staff understands their health and safety obligations?

Is Toolbox meeting is necessary for labours at site?

What all points to be discussed in a labour tool box?

How do you plan to go about establishing safety management goals, objectives, and targets?

What should you do about a lack of safety affecting you or your colleagues?

If someone was violent or potentially violent in your work place, what did you do?

During your experience, did you encounter employees that disobeyed safety rules? What action company taken
to that person? Do you agree with the company's actions? What is your openion?

How should safety (EOHS) policies and activities be communicated internally?

How do you feel you can contribute to the organization by supporting our safety program?

How do you personally demonstrate your commitment to safety management on the job?

How would you plan to go about assessing training needs of staffs/ Supervisors in your work area?

Describe the performance measures you would like to use to determine the effectiveness of our safety
management system.

Tell me about a hazardous equipment you have worked with. What special procedures did you follow?

Have you trained your workers to use safety equipment or procedures? Give me a specific example.
SAFETY OFFICER INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

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

Tell me about a time you received constructive feedback from a boss or coworker that you took to
heart and did something about.

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.

Describe a time when you identified a potential safety issue and addressed it before a

problem occurred.

Dive me a example of a time when you were effective in doing away with the constant emergencies
and surprises in your work environment.

tell me about a time where you lost your patience listening to someone who you believed did not
know what he was talking about.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Give me some example for Flammable and Combustible Petroleum Liquids?

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 tatistics?

The most sprains and strains occurred during what type of duty?

What do you know about the fire safety norms while working in an office?

2. How would you go about preventing a burglary to the safety vault of the office?

3. How will you arrange a safety norm in place in the parking lot?

4. Prevention is better than cure. What is your view on it?

5. What have you learned from your past jobs that related to Safety engineer?

6. Why did you leave your last job?

7. Tell me about your last position and what you did?

8. Where would you like to be in 3 years? 5 years?

9. What made you choose to apply to Safety engineer?

10. What are key tasks for Safety engineer?

11. How to do each Safety engineer position task/function?

12. How to control each task/function of Safety engineer? Etc

13. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

14. What are top top 3 skills for Safety engineer?

15. How to measure job performance of your position: Safety engineer?

16. What do you know about this company?

17. What do you know about the position of your Safety engineer position?

18. Describe two or three major trends in your field?

19. Did you choose this profession/field?

20. What tertiary qualifications have you attained that related to Safety engineer?

21. What is the most recent skill you have learned that related to Safety engineer?

22. What tertiary qualifications have you attained that related to your Safety engineer position?

23. What is the most recent skill you have learned that related to your Safety engineer position?