DIAGNOSTIC EXAMINATION

Review & Assessment Personal Safety and Personal Survival Techniques

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Instruction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

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
c. Googles
b. Surgical gloves
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 on-board a vessel?
a. To avoid accident
c. To avoid expenses
b. To avoid being blame
d. To avoid punishment
5. Why should there be a good relationship on-board?
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 on-board?
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
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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
c. Modes of transmission
b. Receiver
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
c. Radio transmitter
b. Mode of transmission
d. Transmitter's capability
13.
What is not an effect or consequence of a wrong communication practice
on-board?
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
c. Damage to property
b. Injury, damage to
d. All of the above
environment
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
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d. one of the above

What would be your first action when seeing a man overboard?
a. Throw him a lifebuoy
c. Run to the bridge
b. Shout for help
d. Continue with your work
18.
Which of the following is not an alarm system on-board?
a. Ship's general alarm
c. Fire alarm
b. Galley alarm
d. Ship's whistle
19.
Where can you find the specific duties of crew during emergency
situation?
a. cargo manual
c. Muster list
b. Plan maintenance system
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
c. Segregated ballast
b. Composite 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
17.

Prepared by:

Content Check:

2/O Reymarr Hijara

Instructor

ACD-F-013ver1

Grammar Check:

Capt. Thomas Eban Alenton

Dept. Head/OIC
(Subject Matter Expert)

Verified by:

____________

____________

Language Dept.

Dean