Personal Safety and

Social Responsibilities
Exercises

1.What are the

shipboard hazards?
A. Slips, trips and fall, eye injuries through chemicals,
hazards of extreme weather, fire, collision, grounding
B. Head injuries due to low doorway, fingers getting caught
in moving machinery, lack of oxygen in confined spaces
C. Falls through open manholes, injuries through unsecured
equipment, presence of hydrocarbon gas & toxic gasses
D. All of the above

2. Which is NOT an
equipment on-board to
counter shipboard hazards?
a. Helmets
b. Surgical gloves
c. Googles
d. Safety shoes

3. Which of the following is

not a shipboard operation
that can be hazardous to
personnel or the ship?
a. Loading & unloading of cargoes, working aloft, hot work
b. Mooring, handling of chemicals, engine room
watchkeeping
c. Handling of chemicals, lifting loads, entry in enclosed
spaces
d. Oil pollution, fire, collision

4. Why should you

observe safe practice onboard a vessel?
a. To avoid accident
b. To avoid being blame
c. To avoid expenses
d. To avoid punishment

5.Why should there be a

good relationship onboard?
a. Good relationship make life of all seafarers
more comfortable
b. It is stated in the POEA contract
c. To have good rapport with the officers
d. To be awarded as Mr. Congeniality on-board

6. Why is it important to
have a team building onboard?
a. It helps in better decision making
b. It creates disharmony among the crew
c. It makes life hard on-board
d. It develops dishonestly among the crew

7.What are the deterrents

to team operation?
a. Inflexible behavior of crew, hidden agendas,
handling of grievances/counselling
b. Groupism, Regionalism, physical &
environmental problems
c. Status, ego problems, communication problem
d. All of the above

8. Which is not an element

that helps in better
relationship on board?
a. Policies of company
b. Function of shipboard management
c. Clarity of responsibilities
d. Structure & flow of authority unspecified

9. Why is a good
communication most
essential elements of safety
& pollution on board?
a. It eliminates misunderstanding
b. It promotes disharmony on board
c. It makes crew disagree with each other
d. None of the above

10. What is/are the basic

element/s of
communication?
a. Sender
b. Receiver
c. Modes of transmission
d. All of the above

11. What are the methods

of communication?
a. Verbal, reading, speaking & writing
b. Non-verbal, body language, sounds & gestures
c. Signs, figures, diagrams, pictures &
photographs
d. All of the above

12. What is not a barrier

of communication?
a. Media transmission
b. Mode of transmission
c. Radio transmitter
d. Transmitter's capability

13. What is not an effect or

consequence of a wrong
communication practice onboard?
a. It can affect safety of life, property and the
environment
b. Creates harmony on board
c. Causes human problems & problems in
relationship on board
d. None of the above

14. When do you consider

an emergency being a
situation of imminent
danger?
a. Loss of life
b. Injury, damage to environment
c. Damage to property
d. All of the above

15. What is not an

emergency which may
occur on-board a ship?
a. Fire, foundering, heavy weather
b. Collision, man overboard, oil spill
c. Fire drill, oil pollution drill, rescue drill
d. Grounding, ingress of water

16. What is foundering?

a. To float above the water

b. To sink below the surface of the water
c. Both A & B
d. all of the above

17. What would be your

first action when seeing a
man overboard?
a. Throw him a lifebuoy
b. Shout for help
c. Run to the bridge
d. Continue with your work

18. Which of the following

is NOT an alarm system
on-board?
a. Ship's general alarm
b. Galley alarm
c. Fire alarm
d. Ship's whistle

19. Where can you find the

specific duties of crew
during emergency
situation?
a. cargo manual
b. Plan maintenance system
c. Muster list
d. Crew list

20. What is NOT the main

source of marine
pollution?
a. Oil, noxious liquid substance carried in bulk
b. Harmful substance carried in package form,
sewage
c. Garbage, air pollution
d. Smoking, cooking, painting

21. What is a ballast water

introduced into a tank which
is completely separated from
the cargo oil & fuel system?
a. Single hull ballast
b. Composite ballast
c. Segregated ballast
d. None of the these

22. What should be

recorded in the oil record
book?
a. Cleaning of fuel oil tanks
b. Bunkering operation
c. Collection & disposal of oil residues
d. All of the above

23. What is MARPOL

Annex V?
a. Pollution by garbage
b. Pollution by sewage
c. Pollution by air
d. Pollution by noxious liquid substance

24. What is MARPOL

Annex IV?
a. Pollution by garbage
b. Pollution by sewage
c. Pollution by air
d. Pollution by noxious liquid substance

25. When can you throw

plastic overboard?
a. More than 12 nm from the shore
b. More than 3 nm from the shore.
c. Less than 12 nm from the shore
d. None of the above